Vangelis

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-03-29 (79 years old)

Deathday

2022-05-17

Place of Birth

Volos, Thessaly, Greece

Vangelis

Biography

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, best known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and composing scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).

Production

1982

Blade Runner

as Original Music Composer

1992

1492: Conquest of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1984

The Bounty

as Original Music Composer

2004

Alexander

as Original Music Composer

1992

Bitter Moon

as Original Music Composer

1970

Sex-Power

as Original Music Composer

2007

El Greco

as Original Music Composer

1989

Francesco

as Original Music Composer

1976

1985

Dumb Animals

as Music

1978

1978

2023

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Original Music Composer

1971

Frenzy

as Original Music Composer

1991

Starwatcher

as Music

1981

2022

Nuclear Now

as Original Music Composer

1982

Missing

as Original Music Composer

1991

Black Ink

as Music

1976

1992

The Plague

as Original Music Composer

2004

Alexander

as Music Arranger

1967

Vortex

as Original Music Composer

1966

1983

Antarctica

as Original Music Composer

1988

Nosferatu in Venice

as Original Music Composer

1976

1974

Love

as Original Music Composer

1980

Mater amatísima

as Original Music Composer

1980

Defiant Delta

as Original Music Composer

1996

Cavafy

as Original Music Composer

2014

Twilight of Shadows

as Original Music Composer

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