Paul Misraki

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-01-28 (90 years old)

Deathday

1998-10-29

Place of Birth

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

Paul Misraki

Biography

Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim. For his work, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Born Paul Misrachi in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) into a French Jewish family of Italian descent, Misraki showed an early aptitude for music. He went to Paris to study classical composition, and by the...

Acting

1939

Whirlwind of Paris

as Paul (uncredited)

Production

1959

The Cousins

as Original Music Composer

1961

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

as Original Music Composer

1965

Alphaville

as Original Music Composer

1956

...And God Created Woman

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Good Girls

as Original Music Composer

1954

Obsession

as Original Music Composer

1962

Clash of Steel

as Compositor

1955

Oasis

as Original Music Composer

1950

No Pity for Women

as Original Music Composer

1976

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

as Original Music Composer

1956

Plucking the Daisy

as Original Music Composer

1959

À double tour

as Original Music Composer

1949

Manon

as Original Music Composer

1963

L'assassin connaît la musique

as Original Music Composer

1972

A Murder Is a Murder

as Original Music Composer

1951

Utopia

as Original Music Composer

1952

Crazy for Love

as Original Music Composer

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Original Music Composer

1973

1946

Heartbeat

as Original Music Composer

1975

The Arrest

as Music

1938

Return at Dawn

as Original Music Composer

1940

Beating Heart

as Original Music Composer

1962

Le Doulos

as Original Music Composer

1952

1956

Death in the Garden

as Original Music Composer

1956

Thunderstorm

as Original Music Composer

1968

The Day the Hot Line Got Hot

as Original Music Composer

1948

1951

Monte Carlo Baby

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Irony of Money

as Original Music Composer

1938

I Was an Adventuress

as Original Music Composer

1963

Jack and Jenny

as Original Music Composer

1943

Eclipse de sol

as Original Music Composer

1944

El fin de la noche

as Original Music Composer

1947

Navidad de los pobres

as Original Music Composer

1944

1962

Ladies' Man

as Original Music Composer

1937

Claudine at School

as Original Music Composer

1931

Baby's Laxative

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Gamblers

as Original Music Composer

1959

Women Are Weak

as Original Music Composer

1957

A Bomb for a Dictator

as Original Music Composer

1955

Fortune carrée

as Original Music Composer

1958

1959

Way of Youth

as Music

1957

Sénéchal the Magnificent

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Little Rebels

as Original Music Composer

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Original Music Composer

1954

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

as Original Music Composer

1984

Stress

as Music

1951

Young Love

as Original Music Composer

1959

Fever Mounts at El Pao

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Proud and the Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1952

She and Me

as Compositor

1953

Les Dents longues

as Compositor

1974

Bloody Murder

as Original Music Composer

1951

The Moment of Truth

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Lovers of Montparnasse

as Original Music Composer

1955

1938

1956

The Lebanese Mission

as Original Music Composer

1943

Stella

as Music

1958

Sans famille

as Music

1950

We Will All Go to Paris

as Original Music Composer

1957

Young Girls Beware

as Original Music Composer

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