James Horner

James Horner

1953-08-14 Los Angeles, California, USA 148 Credits

Biography

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. ...

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Willow: Behind the Magic

Willow: Behind the Magic

2023

Music

4.1

Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the makin...

Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Thanks

8.2

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector...

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

2016

Original Music Composer

6.5

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma...

The 33

The 33

2015

Original Music Composer

6.4

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

Living in the Age of Airplanes

Living in the Age of Airplanes

2015

Music

7.8

LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES offers a fresh perspective on a modern-day miracle that many of us take for granted: flying. Narrated by Harrison Ford ...

Southpaw

Southpaw

2015

Original Music Composer

7.4

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle...

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

2015

Original Music Composer

6.5

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization ...

Uncovering Wolfen

Uncovering Wolfen

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood wri...

Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner

Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner

2013

as Self

8.5
Acting

On the first anniversary of James Horner's tragic death, we celebrate the legendary composer's greatest film scores with this Deluxe Blu-ray concert. ...

Reflections on Titanic

Reflections on Titanic

2012

as Self

7.3
Acting

An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp...

Reflections on Titanic

Reflections on Titanic

2012

Original Music Composer

7.3

An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the last major Hollywood epics; Titanic. Cast and crew sp...

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012

Original Music Composer

6.7

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenager...

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

Original Music Composer

6.8

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Black Gold

Black Gold

2011

Original Music Composer

6.5

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to riva...

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid

2010

Original Music Composer

6.6

12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately fal...

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

2010

as Self

6.4
Acting

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Avatar

Avatar

2009

Original Music Composer

7.6

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecti...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2008

Original Music Composer

7.8

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of t...

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008

Original Music Composer

6.7

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselv...

Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart'

Alba Gu Brath! The Making of 'Braveheart'

2007

as Self

5.8
Acting

A three-part retrospective with notes from Gibson, Wallace, producers Bruce Davey and Alan Ladd, Jr., unit manager Kevin de la Noy, cinematographer Jo...

The Life Before Her Eyes

The Life Before Her Eyes

2007

Original Music Composer

6.1

As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her b...

Apocalypto

Apocalypto

2006

Original Music Composer

7.6

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a...

All the King's Men

All the King's Men

2006

Original Music Composer

5.8

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 ...

The New World

The New World

2005

Original Music Composer, Conductor

6.5

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

The Legend of Zorro

The Legend of Zorro

2005

Original Music Composer

6.1

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega...

Flightplan

Flightplan

2005

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor

6.5

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...

The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber

2005

Original Music Composer

6.5

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his fr...

The Forgotten

The Forgotten

2004

Original Music Composer

5.9

Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has c...

Troy

Troy

2004

Original Music Composer, Conductor

7.2

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

2004

Original Music Composer

5.9

The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog

2003

Original Music Composer

7.2

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. ...

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

2003

as Self

7.6
Acting

This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both t...

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'

2003

Music

7.6

This feature-length documentary, made especially for the 2003 Aliens (1986) DVD release, is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both t...

The Missing

The Missing

2003

Original Music Composer

6.3

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of...

Radio

Radio

2003

Original Music Composer

7.3

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nic...

Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders

2003

Original Music Composer

6.4

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade...

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

2003

Music

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

2002

Original Music Composer

6.6

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends a...

Windtalkers

Windtalkers

2002

Original Music Composer

6.3

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II ...

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

7.9

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

Iris

Iris

2001

Original Music Composer

6.4

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...

Raptor

Raptor

2001

Original Music Composer

3.9

When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde,...

Unmasking Zorro

Unmasking Zorro

2001

as Self

6.0
Acting

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Mask of Zorro (1998), including a brief history of the iconic character.

Unmasking Zorro

Unmasking Zorro

2001

Music

6.0

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Mask of Zorro (1998), including a brief history of the iconic character.

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates

2001

Original Music Composer, Conductor

7.4

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2000

Original Music Composer

6.8

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer

Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer

2000

Music

A short documentary on the musical score of the 1993 film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" narrated by Brian Satterwhite included as an extra with the ho...

The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm

2000

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

6.5

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing b...

Freedom Song

Freedom Song

2000

Original Music Composer

5.5

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999

Original Music Composer

7.3

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ...

Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits

Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits

1999

Music

Michelle Kwan and friends skate to songs from Disney movies. Viewers voted on the internet for which songs would be used in this special. The top ten ...

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young

1998

Original Music Composer

6.3

As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill ...

The Mask of Zorro

The Mask of Zorro

1998

Original Music Composer

6.6

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped...

Deep Impact

Deep Impact

1998

Original Music Composer, Conductor

6.2

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to sav...

Titanic

Titanic

1997

Original Music Composer

7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian...

The Devil's Own

The Devil's Own

1997

Original Music Composer

6.2

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to bu...

Ransom

Ransom

1996

Original Music Composer

6.7

When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

1996

Original Music Composer

5.5

David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks w...

The Spitfire Grill

The Spitfire Grill

1996

Original Music Composer

6.5

Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, ...

Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

1996

Original Music Composer

6.5

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

Balto

Balto

1995

Original Music Composer

7.3

An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

Jumanji

Jumanji

1995

Original Music Composer, Conductor

7.2

When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's b...

Jade

Jade

1995

Original Music Composer

5.5

When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation steeped in sex, corruption and crime. District Att...

Apollo 13

Apollo 13

1995

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

7.5

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with th...

Casper

Casper

1995

Original Music Composer

6.3

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow ...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1995

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Musician

7.9

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...

Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall

1994

Original Music Composer

7.4

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...

The Pagemaster

The Pagemaster

1994

Original Music Composer

6.4

Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehous...

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

1994

Original Music Composer, Conductor

6.7

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

1993

Original Music Composer

6.1

Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to th...

The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief

1993

Original Music Composer

6.6

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Bopha!

Bopha!

1993

Original Music Composer

5.2

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while...

The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

1993

Original Music Composer

6.5

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlie...

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993

Original Music Composer

7.1

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

House of Cards

House of Cards

1993

Original Music Composer

6.2

When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sall...

Once Upon a Forest

Once Upon a Forest

1993

Original Music Composer

6.6

A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.

Jack the Bear

Jack the Bear

1993

Original Music Composer

6.4

Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of ...

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

1993

Original Music Composer

6.1

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

Swing Kids

Swing Kids

1993

Original Music Composer

6.7

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficu...

Sneakers

Sneakers

1992

Original Music Composer

6.9

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'b...

Unlawful Entry

Unlawful Entry

1992

Original Music Composer

6.2

Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after Karen is held at knife point during a failed robbery attempt in their home. Before long, ...

Patriot Games

Patriot Games

1992

Original Music Composer

6.7

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992

Original Music Composer

6.3

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1991

Original Music Composer, Songs

6.3

Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eage...

The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer

1991

Original Music Composer

6.5

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...

Class Action

Class Action

1991

Original Music Composer

6.3

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

1991

Original Music Composer

6.1

H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed ...

Once Around

Once Around

1991

Original Music Composer

6.1

Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharp...

Extreme Close-Up

Extreme Close-Up

1990

Original Music Composer

Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of th...

Another 48 Hrs.

Another 48 Hrs.

1990

Original Music Composer

6.0

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture ...

I Love You to Death

I Love You to Death

1990

Original Music Composer

6.4

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been che...

Glory

Glory

1989

Original Music Composer

7.5

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Dad

Dad

1989

Original Music Composer

6.3

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes...

In Country

In Country

1989

Original Music Composer, Conductor

5.5

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

1989

Original Music Composer

6.3

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fi...

Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble

Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble

1989

Original Music Composer

6.8

Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

1989

Original Music Composer

7.1

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's direct...

The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time

1988

Original Music Composer

7.1

An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive a...

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return

1988

Original Music Composer

6.5

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows ...

Vibes

Vibes

1988

Original Music Composer

5.7

Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafus...

Red Heat

Red Heat

1988

Original Music Composer

6.2

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...

Willow

Willow

1988

Original Music Composer

7.0

The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Will...

Young Guns

Young Guns

1988

Additional Music

6.7

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes t...

Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure

Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure

1988

Original Music Composer

5.7

Andy Colby is doomed to another typical day of babysitting. But this day is anything but typical when Andy's little sister is pulled through the TV an...

*batteries not included

*batteries not included

1987

Original Music Composer

6.7

In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his...

Project X

Project X

1987

Original Music Composer

6.3

A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps ...

P.K. and the Kid

P.K. and the Kid

1987

Original Music Composer

5.0

P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading spac...

An American Tail

An American Tail

1986

Original Music Composer, Songs

6.7

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel en...

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986

Original Music Composer

7.5

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...

Where the River Runs Black

Where the River Runs Black

1986

Original Music Composer

6.4

An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.

Captain EO

Captain EO

1986

Original Music Composer

In this 3-D science fiction film that was shown at Disney theme parks, the infamous Captain EO and his ragtag crew are sent on a diplomatic mission th...

Aliens

Aliens

1986

Original Music Composer

8.0

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for...

Off Beat

Off Beat

1986

Original Music Composer

4.7

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...

Barbarian Queen

Barbarian Queen

1985

Original Music Composer

4.4

Set during the days of the Roman Empire. A simple village is raided by Roman troops, and most of the people are whisked off to be slaves or killed. Th...

Commando

Commando

1985

Original Music Composer, Music Producer, Conductor

6.7
Producing

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young da...

The Journey of Natty Gann

The Journey of Natty Gann

1985

Original Music Composer

6.9

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds w...

Volunteers

Volunteers

1985

Original Music Composer

5.5

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he ...

Cocoon

Cocoon

1985

Original Music Composer

6.6

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1985

Music

7.5

The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based on the poem by Robert Browning.

Surviving

Surviving

1985

Original Music Composer

5.2

Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois ...

Heaven Help Us

Heaven Help Us

1985

Original Music Composer

6.5

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

1984

Original Music Composer

6.6

A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

The Stone Boy

The Stone Boy

1984

Original Music Composer

6.8

12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm in Montana. In an accident, Eugene is killed by Arnol...

Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor

1983

Original Music Composer

6.2

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Gorky Park

Gorky Park

1983

Original Music Composer

6.3

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s...

The Dresser

The Dresser

1983

Original Music Composer

6.7

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles...

Testament

Testament

1983

Original Music Composer

6.4

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has bee...

Brainstorm

Brainstorm

1983

Original Music Composer

6.2

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results wh...

Between Friends

Between Friends

1983

Original Music Composer

6.0

Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.

Krull

Krull

1983

Original Music Composer

6.1

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

Space Raiders

Space Raiders

1983

Original Music Composer

4.5

A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983

Original Music Composer

6.4

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can...

48 Hrs.

48 Hrs.

1982

Original Music Composer

6.7

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

1982

as Enterprise Crewman

7.5
Acting

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

1982

Original Music Composer

7.5

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

Sorceress

Sorceress

1982

Music

4.4

To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs aw...

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

1982

Original Music Composer

5.0

The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con arti...

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

1982

Conductor, Original Music Composer

8.0

An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

1981

Original Music Composer

5.3

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a ...

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

A Few Days at Weasel Creek

1981

Original Music Composer

Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy an...

Deadly Blessing

Deadly Blessing

1981

Original Music Composer

5.5

When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for...

Wolfen

Wolfen

1981

Original Music Composer, Conductor

5.9

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral ani...

The Hand

The Hand

1981

Original Music Composer

6.0

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon retur...

Angel Dusted

Angel Dusted

1981

Original Music Composer

Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's re...

Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars

1980

Original Music Composer

5.4

A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

Humanoids from the Deep

Humanoids from the Deep

1980

Original Music Composer

5.7

After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatu...

The Lady in Red

The Lady in Red

1979

Original Music Composer

5.7

A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.

Up from the Depths

Up from the Depths

1979

Original Music Composer

3.6

A menacing shark-like predator attacks a Hawaiian tourist area in this low-budget creature feature. An uncredited Roger Corman served as executive pro...