Bear McCreary
Born: 1979-02-17 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Known For: Sound
Biography
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Filmography
2025
- Outlander: Blood of My Blood ... (Original Music Composer)
- Drop ... (Original Music Composer)
2024
- Masters of the Universe: Revolution ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- The Walking Dead: The Return ... (Music)
- Imaginary ... (Original Music Composer)
- The 4:30 Movie ... (Original Music Composer)
- Going Home Again: Making The 4:30 Movie ... (Music)
- We Never Smiled in the 90’s ... (Music)
2023
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Splinter ... (Music Score Producer)
- We Have a Ghost ... (Original Music Composer)
2022
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ... (Original Music Composer)
- Halo ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- The Witcher: Blood Origin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Last Seen Alive ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank ... (Original Music Composer)
- Call Me Miss Cleo ... (Music)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Masters of the Universe: Revelation ... (Original Music Composer)
2020
- Snowpiercer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fantasy Island ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Babysitter: Killer Queen as Frank the Recording Artist
- Ava ... (Original Music Composer)
- Freaky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution ... (Music)
- The Dark Tower ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fund the Bat ... (Music)
2019
- See ... (Original Music Composer)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters ... (Original Music Composer)
- Child's Play ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rim of the World ... (Original Music Composer)
- Happy Death Day 2U ... (Original Music Composer)
- Proven Innocent ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Professor and the Madman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eli ... (Original Music Composer)
- Raising Kratos as Self
2018
- Tau ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hell Fest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Welcome Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cloverfield Paradox ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pooka! ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Still See You ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Shadow Hours ... (Music)
2017
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- Colossal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Victor Crowley ... (Music Score Producer)
- Happy Death Day ... (Original Music Composer)
- Unrest ... (Conductor)
- Rebel in the Rye ... (Original Music Composer)
- Animal Crackers ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Holliston Halloween ... (Music)
- Revolt ... (Original Music Composer)
- Score: A Film Music Documentary as Self
2016
- 10 Cloverfield Lane ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Forest ... (Original Music Composer)
2015
- Digging Up the Marrow ... (Original Music Composer)
- Everly ... (Original Music Composer)
2014
- Outlander ... (Original Music Composer)
- Black Sails ... (Original Music Composer)
- Constantine ... (Original Music Composer)
- Intruders ... (Music)
- Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie as Zombie
2013
- Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ... (Music)
- Defiance ... (Original Music Composer)
- Da Vinci's Demons ... (Original Music Composer)
- Europa Report ... (Original Music Composer)
- Knights of Badassdom ... (Original Music Composer)
2012
- The Asset ... (Original Music Composer)
- Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome ... (Original Music Composer)
- Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome ... (Music)
2011
- Black Mirror ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cape ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chillerama ... (Original Music Composer)
2010
- The Walking Dead ... (Original Music Composer)
- Caprica ... (Original Music Composer)
- Human Target ... (Music)
- Step Up 3D ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Making of The Walking Dead as Self
2009
- Battlestar Galactica: The Plan ... (Original Music Composer)
2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ... (Music)
2007
- Wrong Turn 2: Dead End ... (Original Music Composer)
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Battlestar Galactica ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- Periphery, Texas ... (Music)