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

Dien Bien Phu ... (Original Music Composer)
Man Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
Céline ... (Original Music Composer)
Rich in Love ... (Original Music Composer)
Memento Mori ... (Music)

1991

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

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)
Seven Minutes ... (Original Music Composer)
Paris by Night ... (Original Music Composer)

1988

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

1987

Escape from Sobibor ... (Original Music Composer)
The Pick-up Artist ... (Music)
Queenie ... (Music)
Maid to Order ... (Original Music Composer)
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)
Descent Into Hell ... (Music)
Salvador ... (Original Music Composer)
Crimes of the Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
Sin of Innocence ... (Music)
Family Business ... (Original Music Composer)
Women of Valor ... (Original Music Composer)
Sword of Gideon ... (Original Music Composer)

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

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

1981

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

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

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)
Police Python 357 ... (Original Music Composer)
Boomerang ... (Original Music Composer)
Milady ... (Music)
The Big Operator ... (Original Music Composer)
Nevermore, Forever ... (Music)

1975

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

1974

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

1973

The Day of the Jackal ... (Original Music Composer)
Day for Night as Georges, the Composer (narration) (uncredited)
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer ... (Music)
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)
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me ... (Original Music Composer)
Malpertuis ... (Original Music Composer)
L'Homme qui revient de loin ... (Music)
Dear Louise ... (Original Music Composer)

1971

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

1970

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

1969

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

1968

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

1967

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

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)
Rapture ... (Original Music Composer)
The Uninhibited ... (Original Music Composer)
A ... (Music)
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures ... (Original Music Composer)
Bestiary of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
The Moment of Peace ... (Original Music Composer)

1964

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

1963

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

1962

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

1961

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

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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