Bruce Broughton

Bruce Broughton

1945-03-08 89 Credits

Biography

Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Studios fanfare, and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score...

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Creepover

Creepover

2023

Music

10.0

After being released from prison, Bogart is invited to a sleepover at his friend Dex's house. Little do they know that there's an uninvited guest in t...

Shot

Shot

2017

Music

7.4

One bullet. Three lives. Everyone pays. On an average Los Angeles day, a couple on the verge of divorce and a bullied teenager find their lives desper...

A Christmas Tree Miracle

A Christmas Tree Miracle

2013

Original Music Composer

5.4

“A Christmas Tree Miracle” is a warm-hearted tale that reminds us that in the holiday season, the best gifts in life are the simple ones, and that mir...

Alone Yet Not Alone

Alone Yet Not Alone

2013

Songs

5.2

Fleeing religious persecution in Germany, a family seeks a new start in uncharted country - America. It is the mid-1700s and British and French forces...

The Pledge

The Pledge

2011

Music

6.0

A teen must overcome is troubling past to discover who he truly is.

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

2009

Music

6.0

Eight year-old Lavender Williams, who recently lost her mother to cancer, sets off on an epic journey to find her Dad, whom she's never met. Her only ...

Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor

2009

Original Music Composer

5.4

Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The exp...

O’ Canada!

O’ Canada!

2007

Orchestrator

O Canada! was a Circle-Vision 360° film attraction at the Canada Pavilion, within Epcot's World Showcase at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. I...

Monster Squad Forever!

Monster Squad Forever!

2007

as Himself

7.3
Acting

This is a feature-length look into the creation of the 20 year old cult-classic, Monster Squad, including interviews with writer/director Fred Dekker,...

Bambi II

Bambi II

2006

Original Music Composer

6.5

Return to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn on his own. But in the adventu...

The Dive from Clausen's Pier

The Dive from Clausen's Pier

2005

Music

5.0

After her boyfriend suffers a debilitating accident, a girl from Wisconsin moves to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer.

Warm Springs

Warm Springs

2005

Original Music Composer

6.8

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

2004

Original Music Composer

6.7

In Disney's take on the Alexander Dumas tale, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy want nothing more than to perform brave deeds on behalf of their que...

Last Flight Out

Last Flight Out

2004

Music

4.8

Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruth...

Eloise at Christmastime

Eloise at Christmastime

2003

Original Music Composer

6.3

Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discover...

Eloise at the Plaza

Eloise at the Plaza

2003

Original Music Composer

6.1

Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Her caretaker "Nanny" watches over her while her mom is away...

The Locket

The Locket

2002

Original Music Composer

5.2

A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with ...

Bobbie's Girl

Bobbie's Girl

2002

Music

4.1

Two middle-aged lesbians find their lives complicated when one of them takes in her ten-year-old nephew.

Damaged Care

Damaged Care

2002

Music

Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of his custody battle with the proceeds of his current wife Linda's new job, as medical office...

Roughing It

Roughing It

2002

Music

4.7

A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

2001

Original Music Composer

5.7

The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.

Night Ride Home

Night Ride Home

1999

Original Music Composer

5.6

When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions are...

Jeremiah

Jeremiah

1998

Original Music Composer

6.7

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on seve...

One Tough Cop

One Tough Cop

1998

Original Music Composer

3.2

A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

Lost in Space

Lost in Space

1998

Original Music Composer, Conductor

5.4

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Glory & Honor

Glory & Honor

1998

Music

The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.

Krippendorf's Tribe

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998

Original Music Composer

4.5

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a h...

A Simple Wish

A Simple Wish

1997

Original Music Composer

5.5

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver...

Shadow Conspiracy

Shadow Conspiracy

1997

Original Music Composer

5.0

Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenk...

Infinity

Infinity

1996

Original Music Composer

6.2

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

House Arrest

House Arrest

1996

Original Music Composer

5.3

High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce...

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

1996

Original Music Composer

6.6

When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying t...

Carried Away

Carried Away

1996

Original Music Composer

5.5

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhous...

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

1995

Main Title Theme Composer

6.3

In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among t...

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

1994

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

6.8

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, ...

Baby's Day Out

Baby's Day Out

1994

Original Music Composer

6.4

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the soci...

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

1994

Original Music Composer

5.3

A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

Tiny Toon Spring Break

Tiny Toon Spring Break

1994

Main Title Theme Composer

6.5

Buster, Babs and the entire 'Tiny Toons' gang decided to take a trip to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break. Meanwhile, Elmrya believes that Buster is the...

Tombstone

Tombstone

1993

Original Music Composer

7.6

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining t...

For Love or Money

For Love or Money

1993

Original Music Composer

6.2

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With ...

So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer

1993

Original Music Composer

6.1

Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers o...

Trail Mix-Up

Trail Mix-Up

1993

Original Music Composer

7.1

During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

1993

Original Music Composer

7.0

Before the Seavers leave for a family vacation to San Francisco, they drop off their pets -- Chance, an adventurous American bulldog; Shadow, a wise g...

Stay Tuned

Stay Tuned

1992

Original Music Composer

6.2

Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to ...

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

1992

Original Music Composer

5.3

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machin...

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

1992

Music Supervisor, Original Music Composer

6.7

Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight in...

Oscar's Greatest Moments

Oscar's Greatest Moments

1992

Music

10.0

Highlights from Oscar ceremonies between 1971 and 1991.

O Pioneers!

1992

Original Music Composer

5.4

A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning f...

All I Want For Christmas

All I Want For Christmas

1991

Conductor, Music

5.6

Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.

The Last Halloween

The Last Halloween

1991

Original Music Composer

5.6

Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet.

The Rescuers Down Under

The Rescuers Down Under

1990

Original Music Composer

6.6

A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescu...

Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin

1990

Original Music Composer

6.4

An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically ...

Betsy's Wedding

Betsy's Wedding

1990

Original Music Composer

5.7

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Roller Coaster Rabbit

Roller Coaster Rabbit

1990

Original Music Composer

6.7

Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

1990

Original Music Composer

6.3

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark atta...

The Making of Me

The Making of Me

1989

Original Music Composer

Martin Short narrates the story of "his own" birth to explain the subjects of sex, conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an entertaining and educati...

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

1989

Original Music Composer

4.3

Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.

Jacknife

Jacknife

1989

Original Music Composer

6.3

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who rem...

Last Rites

Last Rites

1988

Original Music Composer

4.6

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who ...

Moonwalker

Moonwalker

1988

Original Music Composer

6.9

Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film e...

The Rescue

The Rescue

1988

Music

5.3

A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are capture...

The Presidio

The Presidio

1988

Original Music Composer

5.9

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagr...

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart

1987

Original Music Composer

5.1

A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and she's afraid he'll run away if he finds out that she h...

Big Shots

Big Shots

1987

Original Music Composer

6.3

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...

The Monster Squad

The Monster Squad

1987

Original Music Composer

6.7

Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerfu...

Harry and the Hendersons

Harry and the Hendersons

1987

Original Music Composer

6.1

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they exa...

Square Dance

Square Dance

1987

Original Music Composer

4.5

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

The Thanksgiving Promise

The Thanksgiving Promise

1986

Original Music Composer

5.7

A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agreement to fatten and kill it for an approaching Than...

George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation

1986

Original Music Composer

The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.

The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly

1986

Original Music Composer

6.3

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, ...

Sweet Liberty

Sweet Liberty

1986

Original Music Composer

5.4

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival ...

Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

1985

Original Music Composer

6.7

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his clas...

Silverado

Silverado

1985

Original Music Composer

7.0

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...

Stormin' Home

Stormin' Home

1985

Original Music Composer

An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vow...

The Cowboy and the Ballerina

The Cowboy and the Ballerina

1984

Original Music Composer

3.0

A champion rodeo rider falls in love with a Russian ballerina who is trying to defect.

Passions

Passions

1984

Original Music Composer

5.7

A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make h...

The Ice Pirates

The Ice Pirates

1984

Original Music Composer

5.6

In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to...

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae

1984

Original Music Composer

6.0

The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England fo...

The Prodigal

The Prodigal

1983

Original Music Composer

8.0

They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.

Cowboy

Cowboy

1983

Original Music Composer

A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people r...

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

1983

Original Music Composer

7.0

A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-...

This Girl for Hire

This Girl for Hire

1983

Original Music Composer

3.6

In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the ...

One Shoe Makes it Murder

One Shoe Makes it Murder

1982

Original Music Composer

6.5

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer.

Desperate Lives

Desperate Lives

1982

Original Music Composer

6.0

A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.

Killjoy

Killjoy

1981

Original Music Composer

7.9

A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctor...

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

1981

Original Music Composer

3.0

In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a floundering business, and the magical gold watch w...

Desperate Voyage

Desperate Voyage

1980

Original Music Composer

7.5

A modern-day pirate hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. But his current captiv...

The Return of Frank Cannon

The Return of Frank Cannon

1980

Original Music Composer

6.2

Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a su...

The Paradise Connection

The Paradise Connection

1979

Original Music Composer

A notorious Chicago lawyer leaves his successful practice and goes to Hawaii to locate his missing son who abandoned a promising law career and has be...