Cliff Martinez
Born: 1954-02-05 in The Bronx, New York, USA
Known For: Sound
Biography
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).
Filmography
2026
- The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel as Self - Drummer, 1983-1986 (archive footage)
2023
- Copenhagen Cowboy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn ... (Original Music Composer)
2022
- Kimi ... (Original Music Composer)
- Touch of Crude ... (Music)
2020
- The Wilds ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- Too Old to Die Young ... (Original Music Composer)
2018
- Den of Thieves ... (Original Music Composer)
- Game Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hotel Artemis ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cliff and Larry: Beginnings as Self
- Ekspeditionen - På sporet af Vitus Bering ... (Original Music Composer)
2017
- The Foreigner ... (Original Music Composer)
2016
- War Dogs ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Neon Demon ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Secret Slaves of the Middle East ... (Music)
2015
- My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn ... (Music)
2014
- The Knick ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Normal Heart ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mea Culpa ... (Original Music Composer)
2013
- Spring Breakers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Only God Forgives ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Square ... (Songs)
2012
- Arbitrage ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Company You Keep ... (Original Music Composer)
- NWR ... (Additional Music)
- Golem ... (Music)
2011
- Drive ... (Original Music Composer)
- Contagion ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lincoln Lawyer ... (Original Music Composer)
2010
- Severe Clear ... (Music)
2009
- In the Beginning ... (Original Music Composer)
- Spy(ies) ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- First Snow ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- Havoc ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt ... (Music)
2004
- Wicker Park ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Wonderland ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- Traffic ... (Original Music Composer)
1999
- The Limey ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Wicked ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- The Fifth Element ... (Additional Music)
- Schizopolis ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- Gray's Anatomy ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- The Underneath ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- King of the Hill ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Black Magic ... (Music)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? as Self
1991
- Kafka ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- Pump Up the Volume ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- sex, lies, and videotape ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- Pee-wee's Playhouse ... (Music)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO as Drums