Georges Delerue

Born: 1925-03-12 in Roubaix, Nord, France

Died: 1992-03-20

Known For: Sound

Biography

Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), two ASCAP Awards (1988, 1990), and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon (1987). He was also nominated for four additional Academy Awards for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Julia (1977), and Agnes of God (1985), four additional César Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Genie Award for Black Robe (1991). The French newspaper Le Figaro named him "the Mozart of cinema." Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1979), Love on the Run (1980), and The Last Metro (1981). Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest honours. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

1996

Remember Me ... (Music)

1995

Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue as Self

1992

Man Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
Diên Biên Phu ... (Original Music Composer)
Memento Mori ... (Music)
Céline ... (Original Music Composer)
Rich in Love ... (Original Music Composer)

1991

Curly Sue ... (Original Music Composer)
Black Robe ... (Original Music Composer)
The Josephine Baker Story ... (Original Music Composer)
Mister Johnson ... (Original Music Composer)
American Friends ... (Original Music Composer)
The White Queen ... (Original Music Composer)
Without Warning: The James Brady Story ... (Music)

1990

Joe Versus the Volcano ... (Original Music Composer)
Cadence ... (Original Music Composer)
A Show of Force ... (Original Music Composer)

1989

Steel Magnolias ... (Original Music Composer)
Her Alibi ... (Original Music Composer)
The French Revolution ... (Original Music Composer)
Paris by Night ... (Original Music Composer)
Seven Minutes ... (Original Music Composer)

1988

Twins ... (Original Music Composer)
Biloxi Blues ... (Original Music Composer)
Beaches ... (Original Music Composer)
Chouans ! ... (Music)
Memories of Me ... (Music)
To Kill a Priest ... (Music)
A Summer Story ... (Original Music Composer)
The House on Carroll Street ... (Original Music Composer)
Heartbreak Hotel ... (Original Music Composer)

1987

Escape from Sobibor ... (Original Music Composer)
Queenie ... (Music)
Maid to Order ... (Original Music Composer)
The Pick-up Artist ... (Music)
A Man in Love ... (Original Music Composer)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ... (Original Music Composer)
Her Secret Life ... (Music)

1986

Platoon ... (Original Music Composer)
Salvador ... (Original Music Composer)
Crimes of the Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
Descent Into Hell ... (Music)
Women of Valor ... (Original Music Composer)
Sin of Innocence ... (Music)
Sword of Gideon ... (Original Music Composer)
Family Business ... (Original Music Composer)

1985

Amazing Stories ... (Music)
Stone Pillow ... (Original Music Composer)
Agnes of God ... (Original Music Composer)
The Execution ... (Original Music Composer)
A Time to Live ... (Original Music Composer)
Deadly Intentions ... (Music)
Mesmerized ... (Original Music Composer)
Amos ... (Original Music Composer)
Maxie ... (Music)

1984

Arch of Triumph ... (Original Music Composer)
Silence of the Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
The Vultures ... (Original Music Composer)
Le Bon Plaisir ... (Original Music Composer)
Aurora ... (Original Music Composer)
Love Thy Neighbor ... (Original Music Composer)

1983

Silkwood ... (Original Music Composer)
One Deadly Summer ... (Original Music Composer)
Exposed ... (Original Music Composer)
The Black Stallion Returns ... (Original Music Composer)
Confidentially Yours ... (Original Music Composer)
Man, Woman and Child ... (Music)
The African ... (Original Music Composer)
Liberty Belle ... (Original Music Composer)

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self
A Little Sex ... (Original Music Composer)
The Escape Artist ... (Original Music Composer)
The Passerby ... (Original Music Composer)
Partners ... (Original Music Composer)
Documenteur ... (Original Music Composer)
Guy de Maupassant ... (Music)

1981

The Borgias ... (Music)
True Confessions ... (Original Music Composer)
Nana ... (Music)
Rich and Famous ... (Original Music Composer)
Le Mythomane ... (Music)
The Woman Next Door ... (Original Music Composer)
The Inquisitor ... (Original Music Composer)
La vie continue ... (Music)
Le rescapé de Tikeroa ... (Music)
La Lettre Volèe ... (Music)

1980

Fantômas ... (Musical)
The Visitors ... (Music)
The Last Metro ... (Original Music Composer)
Arsène Lupin joue et perd ... (Music)
Les Chevaux du soleil ... (Music)
Willie & Phil ... (Original Music Composer)
Richard's Things ... (Original Music Composer)
First Voyage ... (Original Music Composer)
Toine ... (Music)

1979

A Little Romance ... (Original Music Composer)
Love on the Run ... (Original Music Composer)
Joséphine, ou la comédie des ambitions ... (Sound)
Bluebeard ... (Music)
An Almost Perfect Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
Les Insulaires ... (Music)
Pierrot mon ami ... (Original Music Composer)
The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1 ... (Original Music Composer)
Simone de Beauvoir ... (Original Music Composer)
The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2 ... (Music)
My Friend, or The Hidden Life of Jules Depraeter ... (Music)

1978

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs ... (Original Music Composer)
Dear Inspector ... (Original Music Composer)
Little Girl in Blue Velvet ... (Music)
Your Turn, My Turn ... (Original Music Composer)

1977

Julia ... (Original Music Composer)
Bloodthirsty Hawk ... (Music)
Banlieue Sud-Est ... (Music)
Egy őrült naplója ... (Sound)

1976

30 millions d'amis as Self
Femmes Fatales ... (Original Music Composer)
Boomerang ... (Original Music Composer)
Milady ... (Music)
Police Python 357 ... (Original Music Composer)
The Big Operator ... (Original Music Composer)
Nevermore, Forever ... (Music)

1975

Paul Gauguin ... (Music)
Incorrigible ... (Original Music Composer)
That Most Important Thing: Love ... (Original Music Composer)
Les Compagnons d'Eleusis ... (Original Music Composer)

1974

La Cloche tibétaine ... (Music)
Alien Thunder ... (Original Music Composer)
The Slap ... (Original Music Composer)
Les Musiciens de la pellicule as lui-même

1973

The Day of the Jackal ... (Original Music Composer)
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer ... (Music)
Day for Night as Georges, the Composer (narration) (uncredited)
The Day of the Dolphin ... (Original Music Composer)
L'Éducation sentimentale ... (Music)
Angela – Love Comes Quietly ... (Music)

1972

Le Grand Échiquier as Self
The Accursed Kings ... (Original Music Composer)
L'Homme qui revient de loin ... (Music)
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me ... (Original Music Composer)
Malpertuis ... (Original Music Composer)
Dear Louise ... (Original Music Composer)

1971

The Conformist ... (Original Music Composer)
The Horsemen ... (Original Music Composer)
Mira ... (Original Music Composer)
Two English Girls as Claude's Business Agent
Adieu mes quinze ans ... (Music)
The Most Gentle Confessions ... (Original Music Composer)

1970

Mauregard ... (Original Music Composer)
Give Her the Moon ... (Music)
Countdown to Vengeance ... (Original Music Composer)
Promise at Dawn ... (Original Music Composer)
Lancelot of the Lake ... (Music)
La Mort de Danton ... (Musical)

1969

Hibernatus ... (Original Music Composer)
Women in Love ... (Original Music Composer)
The Brain ... (Original Music Composer)
Anne of the Thousand Days ... (Original Music Composer)
Jacquou le Croquant ... (Original Music Composer)
The Devil by the Tail ... (Music)
A Walk with Love and Death ... (Original Music Composer)
The Erasers ... (Original Music Composer)

1968

Thibaud ou les Croisades ... (Original Music Composer)
Nobody Runs Forever ... (Original Music Composer)
Interlude ... (Original Music Composer)

1967

Our Mother's House ... (Original Music Composer)
Oscar ... (Original Music Composer)
The Two of Us ... (Music)
The 25th Hour ... (Original Music Composer)
Our World ... (Music)
Huckleberry Finn ... (Original Music Composer)
The Sunday of Life ... (Original Music Composer)
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz ... (Original Music Composer)
On Sunday Afternoon ... (Original Music Composer)
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday ... (Compositor)

1966

A Man for All Seasons ... (Original Music Composer)
King of Hearts ... (Original Music Composer)
The Nameless Star ... (Music)
Paris au temps des cerises ... (Music)
Don’t Shoot the Composer as Himself

1965

Viva Maria! ... (Original Music Composer)
The Sucker ... (Original Music Composer)
Up to His Ears ... (Original Music Composer)
Le Bonheur conjugal ... (Original Music Composer)
The Uninhibited ... (Original Music Composer)
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures ... (Original Music Composer)
Rapture ... (Original Music Composer)
Bestiary of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
The Moment of Peace ... (Original Music Composer)
A ... (Music)

1964

That Man from Rio ... (Original Music Composer)
The Soft Skin ... (Original Music Composer)
Lucky Jo ... (Music)
The Pumpkin Eater ... (Original Music Composer)
Valparaiso ... (Conductor)
Greed in the Sun ... (Original Music Composer)
French Dressing ... (Original Music Composer)
Male Companion ... (Music)
The Unvanquished ... (Music)
Bosphore ... (Musical)
Mata Hari, Agent H21 ... (Original Music Composer)
That Tender Age ... (Original Music Composer)
The Big Hit ... (Music)
Dandelions by the Roots ... (Original Music Composer)
Èves futures ... (Music)
Let the Shooters Shoot ... (Original Music Composer)
The Black Indies ... (Music)
Trouble Among Widows ... (Original Music Composer)
Golden Horn ... (Musical)

1963

Contempt ... (Original Music Composer)
Magnet of Doom ... (Original Music Composer)
Hitler - Never Heard of Him ... (Music)
The Immortal One ... (Original Music Composer)
Highway Pick-Up ... (Original Music Composer)
Portuguese Vacation ... (Original Music Composer)
Nothing Ever Happens ... (Music)
Till the End of the World ... (Original Music Composer)

1962

Jules and Jim ... (Original Music Composer)
Antoine and Colette ... (Original Music Composer)
Love at Twenty ... (Original Music Composer)
Cartouche ... (Music)
Paris Pick-Up ... (Original Music Composer)
The Immoral Moment ... (Music)
Crime Does Not Pay ... (Music)
Le bureau des mariages ... (Original Music Composer)
Vive Le Tour ... (Original Music Composer)
Simon ... (Music)

1961

The Joker ... (Original Music Composer)
The Long Absence ... (Original Music Composer)
Playtime ... (Original Music Composer)
Five Day Lover ... (Original Music Composer)
Le bonheur est pour demain ... (Original Music Composer)
The Passion of Slow Fire ... (Original Music Composer)
Over the Wall ... (Music)
The Nina B. Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
Women and War ... (Original Music Composer)

1960

Shoot the Piano Player ... (Original Music Composer)
The Big Risk ... (Original Music Composer)
Love and the Frenchwoman ... (Original Music Composer)
Le Sourire ... (Original Music Composer)
Do or Die! ... (Original Music Composer)
Le Bel Âge ... (Original Music Composer)
A Mistress for the Summer ... (Original Music Composer)
Love Exists ... (Original Music Composer)
The Love Game ... (Original Music Composer)

1959

Discorama as Self
Hiroshima Mon Amour ... (Original Music Composer)

1958

The Overworked ... (Music)
Along the Coast ... (Original Music Composer)
Diary of a Pregnant Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
The Sea and the Days ... (Music)
The First Night ... (Music)

1957

Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur ... (Music)
Letter from Siberia ... (Orchestrator)
A Girl in a Pocket ... (Original Music Composer)
Chères vieilles choses ... (Original Music Composer)

1956

Night and Fog ... (Orchestrator)
All the World's Memory ... (Conductor)
Sunday in Peking ... (Conductor)