Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti

1937-03-23 New York City, New York, USA 86 Credits

Biography

Angelo Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 - December 11, 2022) was an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1990–1992, 2017), The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive. Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his "Twin Peaks Theme", and had received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Awards and the Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composer...

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Smith Peaks

Smith Peaks

2025

Music

In a city of factories, bare trees, and looming cell towers, a graduate student named Smith disappears from his home. His disappearance is reported to...

My Weston is My Hero

My Weston is My Hero

2024

Music

10.0

The final days before Weston mysteriously snaps and goes insane.

Faraway Eyes

Faraway Eyes

2020

Theme Song Performance, Thanks, Original Music Composer

5.0

Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that...

Koi

Koi

2019

Music

7.8

There's no definitive separation as long as there is memory'. Since the Tsunami hit the northern part of Japan's coast in 2011, more than 20 thousand ...

Ant Head

Ant Head

2018

Music, Sound

5.2

"A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the Thought Gang album."

The Music of David Lynch

2016

as Self

8.8
Acting

The David Lynch Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exploration of the director's use of immersive and ambient sound in his films, "Twi...

The Wait

The Wait

2016

Music

4.5

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with h...

Gold Coast

Gold Coast

2015

Original Music Composer

6.1

Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan.

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

2014

Original Music Composer

7.3

Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of ...

Stalingrad

Stalingrad

2013

Original Music Composer

6.5

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process b...

A Late Quartet

A Late Quartet

2012

Original Music Composer

6.7

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the bal...

Time Doesn't Stand Still

2011

Music

6.2

Director Asa Mader collaborated with Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan star and New York City Ballet principal) for this film featuring Millepied and Fre...

A Butterfly Kiss

A Butterfly Kiss

2011

Original Music Composer

5.0

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

A Woman

A Woman

2010

Original Music Composer

4.0

A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dea...

44 Inch Chest

44 Inch Chest

2009

Original Music Composer

5.5

Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

The Edge of Love

The Edge of Love

2008

Original Music Composer

6.2

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's child...

The Sound of Lynch

The Sound of Lynch

2007

5.7
Acting

This documentary explores every facet of this job of complex and exciting sound which David Lynch leads since Eraserhead, his first film and matrix wo...

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

2007

7.2
Acting

A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks

2007

Music

7.2

A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...

A Slice of Lynch

A Slice of Lynch

2007

Music

6.9

David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.

Return to 'Twin Peaks'

Return to 'Twin Peaks'

2007

Music

5.7

Documentary about 'Twin Peaks Festival'.

The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

2006

Original Music Composer

4.3

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive...

Dark Water

Dark Water

2005

Original Music Composer

5.7

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, ...

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

2005

Original Music Composer

5.3

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

2005

as Self

Acting
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

2005

Music

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

2004

Music

A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.

A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement

2004

Original Music Composer

7.3

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

Before the Fall

Before the Fall

2004

Original Music Composer

7.0

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over...

Evilenko

Evilenko

2004

Original Music Composer

5.7

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradua...

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’

2004

as Self

6.8
Acting

A short documentary about the making of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.

Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin

2004

as Self

7.7
Acting
Indoor Fireworks

Indoor Fireworks

2003

Music

Two small time crooks, one big shiny safe and a temperamental old lift transports us into a black humored caper fizzing with indoor fireworks.

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

2003

Original Music Composer

5.7

A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted a...

Resistance

Resistance

2003

Original Music Composer

5.1

The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot f...

Murder in Scottsdale

Murder in Scottsdale

2003

Music

2.0

An overview of the murder of Bob Crane and an assessment of the investigation which was carried out.

Auto Focus

Auto Focus

2002

Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

6.4

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...

Secretary

Secretary

2002

Original Music Composer

6.8

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship t...

Lathe of Heaven

Lathe of Heaven

2002

Music

5.9

In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for hi...

The Adversary

The Adversary

2002

Original Music Composer

6.6

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist J...

Rabbits

Rabbits

2002

Original Music Composer

6.8

A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and...

Darkened Room

Darkened Room

2002

Music

5.4

Two young women find themselves in a dark room where there is a distinctly strange feeling.

Mysteries of Love

Mysteries of Love

2002

as Self

7.1
Acting

Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the mak...

Mysteries of Love

Mysteries of Love

2002

Original Music Composer

7.1

Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the mak...

Cet amour-là

Cet amour-là

2001

Music

6.6

Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the in...

Story of a Bad Boy

Story of a Bad Boy

2001

Original Music Composer

5.0

17 year old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. His dad wants him to make the track team, his mom wants him to do well in band, and ...

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

2001

as Luigi Castigliane

7.8
Acting

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

2001

Original Music Composer

7.8

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...

Julie Johnson

Julie Johnson

2001

Music

5.5

A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Jul...

Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation

2001

Original Music Composer

4.7

Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabi...

A Piece of Eden

A Piece of Eden

2000

Music

5.0

A bittersweet comedy that follows three generations of the unlucky Tredici family from Corsica in the 1940's to an Indiana fruit farm in the present.

The Beach

The Beach

2000

Original Music Composer

6.5

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradis...

Forever Mine

Forever Mine

1999

Original Music Composer

5.3

A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.

The Straight Story

The Straight Story

1999

Original Music Composer

7.7

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin ...

Holy Smoke

Holy Smoke

1999

Original Music Composer

5.7

While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate ...

Arlington Road

Arlington Road

1999

Original Music Composer

7.0

Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly p...

Mulholland Dr.

Mulholland Dr.

1999

as Luigi Castigliane (uncredited)

7.8
Acting
Mulholland Dr.

Mulholland Dr.

1999

Music

7.8
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

1997

as Self

7.0
Acting

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

1997

Music

7.0

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

The Blood Oranges

The Blood Oranges

1997

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

3.8

Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, th...

Lost Highway

Lost Highway

1997

Original Music Composer

7.5

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transfo...

The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children

1995

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Producer

7.2
Producing

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

1995

Music

6.3

A short film about the events following a murder.

Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt

1994

Original Music Composer

5.2

Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

Naked in New York

Naked in New York

1993

Original Music Composer

4.5

Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Paul McCartney: Movin' On

Paul McCartney: Movin' On

1993

as Self

8.0
Acting

Paul McCartney: Movin' On takes viewers inside the private world of one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. Go backstage and join Beatle Pau...

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

1992

Music Producer, Music

Producing

An experimental music film showcasing the filming locations of "Twin Peaks" using silent footage and eleven tracks from the original score composed by...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

Original Music Composer, Music, Orchestrator

7.4

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...

The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

1990

Original Music Composer

5.8

An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

1990

as Self

5.0
Acting

A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

1990

Producer, Music Director, Music

6.0
Producing Directing

After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads ...

Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

1990

Original Music Composer

7.0

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

1989

Music

8.4

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

1989

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

7.2

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and th...

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

1989

Original Music Composer

6.0

Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer...

Cousins

Cousins

1989

Original Music Composer

6.0

Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.

Parents

Parents

1989

Original Music Composer

5.9

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

1989

as Self

9.0
Acting

A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

Weeds

Weeds

1987

Original Music Composer

5.3

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1987

Original Music Composer

4.8

Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a wom...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987

Original Music Composer

6.7

During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for...

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

1986

as Piano Player

7.6
Acting

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

1986

Original Music Composer

7.6

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Law and Disorder

Law and Disorder

1974

Original Music Composer

4.9

In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous...

Gordon's War

Gordon's War

1973

Original Music Composer

5.7

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriate...