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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Creepover
2023
Music
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
2017
Music
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
2013
Original Music Composer
“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
2013
Songs
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
2011
Music
A teen must overcome is troubling past to discover who he truly is.

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
Music
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
2009
Original Music Composer
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!
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!
2007
as Himself
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
2006
Original Music Composer
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
2005
Music
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
2005
Original Music Composer
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
2004
Original Music Composer
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
2004
Music
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
2003
Original Music Composer
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
2003
Original Music Composer
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
2002
Original Music Composer
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
2002
Music
Two middle-aged lesbians find their lives complicated when one of them takes in her ten-year-old nephew.

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
2002
Music
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
2001
Original Music Composer
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.

Night Ride Home
1999
Original Music Composer
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
1998
Original Music Composer
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
1998
Original Music Composer
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

Lost in Space
1998
Original Music Composer, Conductor
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
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
1998
Original Music Composer
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
1997
Original Music Composer
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
1997
Original Music Composer
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
1996
Original Music Composer
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

House Arrest
1996
Original Music Composer
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
1996
Original Music Composer
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
1996
Original Music Composer
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
1995
Main Title Theme Composer
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
1994
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
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
1994
Original Music Composer
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
1994
Original Music Composer
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

Tiny Toon Spring Break
1994
Main Title Theme Composer
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
1993
Original Music Composer
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
1993
Original Music Composer
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
1993
Original Music Composer
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
1993
Original Music Composer
During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
Original Music Composer
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
1992
Original Music Composer
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
1992
Original Music Composer
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
1992
Music Supervisor, Original Music Composer
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
1992
Music
Highlights from Oscar ceremonies between 1971 and 1991.
O Pioneers!
1992
Original Music Composer
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
1991
Conductor, Music
Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.

The Last Halloween
1991
Original Music Composer
Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet.

The Rescuers Down Under
1990
Original Music Composer
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
1990
Original Music Composer
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
1990
Original Music Composer
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
1990
Original Music Composer
Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.

The Old Man and the Sea
1990
Original Music Composer
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
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
1989
Original Music Composer
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
1989
Original Music Composer
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
1988
Original Music Composer
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
1988
Original Music Composer
Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film e...

The Rescue
1988
Music
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
1988
Original Music Composer
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
1987
Original Music Composer
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
1987
Original Music Composer
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
1987
Original Music Composer
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
1987
Original Music Composer
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
1987
Original Music Composer
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

The Thanksgiving Promise
1986
Original Music Composer
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
1986
Original Music Composer
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
1986
Original Music Composer
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
1985
Original Music Composer
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
1985
Original Music Composer
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
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
1984
Original Music Composer
A champion rodeo rider falls in love with a Russian ballerina who is trying to defect.

Passions
1984
Original Music Composer
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
1984
Original Music Composer
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
1984
Original Music Composer
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
1983
Original Music Composer
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.

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
1983
Original Music Composer
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
1983
Original Music Composer
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
1982
Original Music Composer
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
1982
Original Music Composer
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.

Killjoy
1981
Original Music Composer
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
1981
Original Music Composer
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
1980
Original Music Composer
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
1980
Original Music Composer
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
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...