Bernard Herrmann
Born: 1911-06-29 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1975-12-24
Known For: Sound
Biography
Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.
Filmography
2020
- Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
2009
- Le carnaval de l’angoisse ... (Music)
2008
- Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Back to Room 666 ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- The Key to Reserva ... (Music)
2004
- 20th Century Greats as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Psycho Path ... (Musical)
1998
- Psycho ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- Bon week-end Monsieur Bennett ! ... (Music)
1993
- The Egg ... (Music)
1991
- Cape Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- Psycho IV: The Beginning ... (Music)
1983
- Cada ver es... ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Psycho Shampoo ... (Music)
1978
- It Lives Again ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Taxi Driver ... (Original Music Composer)
- Obsession ... (Original Music Composer)
- God Told Me To ... (In Memory Of)
1974
- It's Alive ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- Sisters ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- Endless Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- The Road Builder ... (Original Music Composer)
1969
- The Battle of Neretva ... (Original Music Composer)
- Obsessions ... (Original Music Composer)
1968
- The Bride Wore Black ... (Original Music Composer)
- Companions in Nightmare ... (Original Music Composer)
- Twisted Nerve ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death in the Afternoon ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- Fahrenheit 451 ... (Original Music Composer)
1965
- Lost in Space ... (Music)
1964
- Marnie ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Talk with Hitchcock as Self
1963
- Jason and the Argonauts ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Birds ... (Music Consultant)
1962
- Cape Fear ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tender Is the Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1961
- Mysterious Island ... (Original Music Composer)
1960
- Psycho ... (Original Music Composer)
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver ... (Original Music Composer)
1959
- The Twilight Zone ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blue Denim ... (Original Music Composer)
- North by Northwest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth ... (Original Music Composer)
1958
- Vertigo ... (Original Music Composer)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Naked and the Dead ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fiend Who Walked the West ... (Music)
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Hatful of Rain ... (Original Music Composer)
- Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot ... (Music)
1956
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wrong Man as Stork Club Piano Player (uncredited)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much as Conductor at Albert Hall
1955
- The Kentuckian ... (Original Music Composer)
- Prince of Players ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Trouble with Harry ... (Original Music Composer)
1954
- Garden of Evil ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Christmas Carol ... (Songs)
- The Egyptian ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- King of the Khyber Rifles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef ... (Original Music Composer)
- White Witch Doctor ... (Original Music Composer)
1952
- 5 Fingers ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro ... (Original Music Composer)
1951
- On Dangerous Ground ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still ... (Original Music Composer)
1947
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ... (Original Music Composer)
1946
- Anna and the King of Siam ... (Original Music Composer)
1945
- Hangover Square ... (Original Music Composer)
1943
- Jane Eyre ... (Original Music Composer)
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons ... (Original Music Composer)
1941
- Citizen Kane ... (Original Music Composer)
- All That Money Can Buy ... (Original Music Composer)