Elmer Bernstein

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-04-04 (82 years old)

Deathday

2004-08-18

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Elmer Bernstein

Biography

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs ...

Production

1960

The Magnificent Seven

as Original Music Composer

1957

Sweet Smell of Success

as Original Music Composer

1980

The Blues Brothers

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Man with the Golden Arm

as Original Music Composer

1962

To Kill a Mockingbird

as Original Music Composer

1984

Ghostbusters

as Original Music Composer

1981

An American Werewolf in London

as Original Music Composer

1980

Airplane!

as Original Music Composer

1996

Bulletproof

as Original Music Composer

1962

Birdman of Alcatraz

as Original Music Composer

1993

Mad Dog and Glory

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Age of Innocence

as Original Music Composer

1989

1981

Stripes

as Original Music Composer

1985

The Black Cauldron

as Original Music Composer

1958

Desire Under the Elms

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Buccaneer

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Comancheros

as Original Music Composer

2002

Far from Heaven

as Original Music Composer

2000

Keeping the Faith

as Original Music Composer

1971

Big Jake

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Great Santini

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Tin Star

as Original Music Composer

1963

The Great Escape

as Original Music Composer

1976

From Noon Till Three

as Original Music Composer

1991

Oscar

as Original Music Composer

1986

¡Three Amigos!

as Original Music Composer

1963

Hud

as Original Music Composer

1985

Spies Like Us

as Original Music Composer

1999

Wild Wild West

as Original Music Composer

1995

Devil in a Blue Dress

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Good Son

as Original Music Composer

1981

Heavy Metal

as Original Music Composer

1966

Cast a Giant Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1976

The Shootist

as Original Music Composer

1969

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Original Music Composer

1966

Return of the Seven

as Original Music Composer

1986

Legal Eagles

as Original Music Composer

1980

This Year's Blonde

as Original Music Composer

1958

God's Little Acre

as Original Music Composer

1953

Cat-Women of the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1953

Robot Monster

as Original Music Composer

1972

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Sons of Katie Elder

as Original Music Composer

1963

Love with the Proper Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1974

Gold

as Original Music Composer

2004

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Story on Page One

as Original Music Composer

1969

True Grit

as Original Music Composer

1979

Zulu Dawn

as Original Music Composer

1990

The Grifters

as Original Music Composer

1965

1954

Make Haste to Live

as Original Music Composer

1995

Frankie Starlight

as Original Music Composer

1955

Storm Fear

as Original Music Composer

1988

The Good Mother

as Original Music Composer

1970

Cannon for Cordoba

as Original Music Composer

1953

Never Wave at a WAC

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Miracle

as Original Music Composer

1987

Leonard Part 6

as Original Music Composer

1969

Midas Run

as Original Music Composer

1980

Saturn 3

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Eternal Sea

as Original Music Composer

1999

Bringing Out the Dead

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Rainmaker

as Original Music Composer

1952

Battles of Chief Pontiac

as Original Music Composer

1963

The Caretakers

as Original Music Composer

1972

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

as Original Music Composer

1983

Trading Places

as Original Music Composer

1962

Walk on the Wild Side

as Original Music Composer

1955

The View from Pompey's Head

as Original Music Composer

1973

Cahill: United States Marshal

as Original Music Composer

1983

1971

See No Evil

as Original Music Composer

1988

Da

as Music

1968

The Scalphunters

as Original Music Composer

1975

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Fabulous Fifties

as Original Music Composer

1974

McQ

as Original Music Composer

1999

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

as Original Music Composer

1978

Cezanne

as Music

1966

The Silencers

as Original Music Composer

1979

Charleston

as Music

1958

Saddle the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1958

Anna Lucasta

as Original Music Composer

1952

Sudden Fear

as Original Music Composer

1983

Class

as Original Music Composer

1966

Hawaii

as Original Music Composer

1957

Drango

as Original Music Composer

1974

Nightmare Honeymoon

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Carpetbaggers

as Original Music Composer

1965

Baby the Rain Must Fall

as Original Music Composer

1969

Tops

as Music

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel

as Original Music Composer

1978

Bloodbrothers

as Original Music Composer

1970

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

as Original Music Composer

1977

1974

Gold

as Music

1999

The Deep End of the Ocean

as Original Music Composer

1981

The Chosen

as Original Music Composer

1954

Silent Raiders

as Original Music Composer

1955

It's a Dog's Life

as Original Music Composer

1957

Men in War

as Original Music Composer

1997

Buddy

as Original Music Composer

1995

Canadian Bacon

as Original Music Composer

1998

Twilight

as Original Music Composer

1997

Hoodlum

as Original Music Composer

1953

Miss Robin Crusoe

as Original Music Composer

1964

Four Days In November

as Original Music Composer

1991

Cape Fear

as Conductor

1988

Funny Farm

as Original Music Composer

1958

Kings Go Forth

as Original Music Composer

1999

1979

Meatballs

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Bold Men

as Music Supervisor

1971

Doctors' Wives

as Original Music Composer

1970

A Walk in the Spring Rain

as Original Music Composer

1961

Summer and Smoke

as Original Music Composer

1962

A Girl Named Tamiko

as Original Music Composer

1956

1985

Prince Jack

as Music

1956

1952

Boots Malone

as Music

1951

1969

1960

From the Terrace

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Rat Race

as Original Music Composer

1998

1995

Roommates

as Conductor

1995

Roommates

as Original Music Composer

1992

The Babe

as Original Music Composer

1993

Lost in Yonkers

as Original Music Composer

1987

1987

Amazing Grace and Chuck

as Original Music Composer

1993

Lost in Yonkers

as Conductor

1995

Search and Destroy

as Original Music Composer

1964

The World of Henry Orient

as Original Music Composer

1957

Men in War

as Conductor

1957

Fear Strikes Out

as Original Music Composer

1967

Thoroughly Modern Millie

as Original Music Composer

1991

Cape Fear

as Original Music Composer

1982

Five Days One Summer

as Original Music Composer

1978

Animal House

as Original Music Composer

2000

Chinese Coffee

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Ten Commandments

as Original Music Composer

1981

Honky Tonk Freeway

as Original Music Composer

1962

1972

The Rookies

as Music

1975

Report to the Commissioner

as Original Music Composer

1965

7 Women

as Original Music Composer

1973

Incident on a Dark Street

as Original Music Composer

1991

A Rage in Harlem

as Original Music Composer

1963

Kings of the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1968

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

as Original Music Composer

1991

Rambling Rose

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Young Doctors

as Original Music Composer

1990

The Field

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Reward

as Original Music Composer

2000

A Storm in Summer

as Music Producer

1958

Some Came Running

as Original Music Composer

1974

1989

Slipstream

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Cemetery Club

as Original Music Composer

1981

1965

1969

The Gypsy Moths

as Original Music Composer

1963

Rampage

as Music

1974

The Trial of Billy Jack

as Original Music Composer

1977

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

as Original Music Composer

1986

Legal Eagles

as Conductor

1981

Going Ape!

as Original Music Composer

1982

Genocide

as Conductor

1982

Genocide

as Music

1961

1957

1961

2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

as Original Music Composer

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