Alfred Newman

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-03-17 (69 years old)

Deathday

1970-02-17

Place of Birth

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Alfred Newman

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored ...

Acting

1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

as Orchestra Conductor in Prologue (uncredited)

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Musical Director

1951

The CinemaScope Parade

as Joseph Haydn

Production

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Original Music Composer

1950

All About Eve

as Original Music Composer

1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Original Music Composer

1952

Viva Zapata!

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Diary of Anne Frank

as Original Music Composer

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Original Music Composer

1949

Thieves' Highway

as Original Music Composer

1950

Broken Arrow

as Music Director

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Original Music Composer

1970

Airport

as Original Music Composer

1968

Firecreek

as Original Music Composer

1940

Blondie on a Budget

as Original Music Composer

1966

Nevada Smith

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Original Music Composer

1962

How the West Was Won

as Original Music Composer

1940

Foreign Correspondent

as Original Music Composer

1950

Panic in the Streets

as Original Music Composer

1948

Call Northside 777

as Original Music Composer

1946

Dragonwyck

as Original Music Composer

1951

1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Original Music Composer

1941

How Green Was My Valley

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

as Music Director

1943

The Song of Bernadette

as Original Music Composer

1954

Hell and High Water

as Original Music Composer

1937

You Only Live Once

as Music Director

1950

The Gunfighter

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Black Swan

as Music Director

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Original Music Composer

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Gay Desperado

as Music Director

1936

The Gay Desperado

as Original Music Composer

1950

For Heaven's Sake

as Original Music Composer

1949

Mother Is a Freshman

as Original Music Composer

1931

Arrowsmith

as Music Director

1941

Hudson's Bay

as Original Music Composer

1940

Vigil in the Night

as Original Music Composer

1938

Trade Winds

as Original Music Composer

1933

Blood Money

as Music Director

1940

Little Old New York

as Original Music Composer

1941

A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Music Director

1937

52nd Street

as Original Music Composer

1947

Moss Rose

as Music Director

1936

Dodsworth

as Music Director

1940

Earthbound

as Original Music Composer

1947

Mother Wore Tights

as Music Director

1946

Margie

as Music Director

1952

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom

as Original Music Composer

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Pied Piper

as Music Director

1942

The Pied Piper

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Gorilla

as Music

1947

Miracle on 34th Street

as Music Director

1956

The King and I

as Original Music Composer

1932

Rain

as Original Music Composer

1937

You Only Live Once

as Original Music Composer

1932

Movie Crazy

as Original Music Composer

1934

Born to Be Bad

as Original Music Composer

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Original Music Composer

1935

Red Salute

as Original Music Composer

1939

Barricade

as Music Director

1949

You're My Everything

as Music Director

1940

They Knew What They Wanted

as Original Music Composer

1932

Flesh

as Original Music Composer

1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Music Director

1944

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

as Music Director

1946

My Darling Clementine

as Music Director

1936

Beloved Enemy

as Original Music Composer

1936

Dodsworth

as Original Music Composer

1935

Barbary Coast

as Original Music Composer

1953

The President's Lady

as Original Music Composer

1952

O. Henry's Full House

as Original Music Composer

1948

Sitting Pretty

as Original Music Composer

1941

Man Hunt

as Original Music Composer

1937

History Is Made at Night

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Wedding Night

as Original Music Composer

1937

Woman Chases Man

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Age for Love

as Original Music Composer

1933

I Cover the Waterfront

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Bowery

as Original Music Composer

1952

With a Song in My Heart

as Original Music Composer

1951

David and Bathsheba

as Original Music Composer

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Original Music Composer

1935

Call of the Wild

as Original Music Composer

1932

The Kid from Spain

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Mighty Barnum

as Original Music Composer

1935

Clive of India

as Original Music Composer

1935

Les Misérables

as Original Music Composer

1931

Arrowsmith

as Original Music Composer

1932

Sky Devils

as Original Music Composer

1934

We Live Again

as Original Music Composer

1948

Cry of the City

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Purple Heart

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Battle of Midway

as Original Music Composer

1937

Wee Willie Winkie

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Egyptian

as Original Music Composer

1944

Wilson

as Original Music Composer

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Original Music Composer

1932

Night World

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Affairs of Cellini

as Original Music Composer

1947

Captain from Castile

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Moon Is Down

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Black Swan

as Original Music Composer

1936

Ramona

as Original Music Composer

1936

These Three

as Original Music Composer

1933

Roman Scandals

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Last Gentleman

as Original Music Composer

1955

A Man Called Peter

as Original Music Composer

1949

Pinky

as Original Music Composer

1947

Gentleman's Agreement

as Original Music Composer

1942

China Girl

as Original Music Composer

1942

To the Shores of Tripoli

as Original Music Composer

1942

This Above All

as Original Music Composer

1941

Blood and Sand

as Original Music Composer

1939

Wuthering Heights

as Original Music Composer

1935

Splendor

as Original Music Composer

1932

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

as Original Music Composer

1952

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

as Original Music Composer

1934

Looking for Trouble

as Original Music Composer

1934

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Original Music Composer

1935

Folies Bergère

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Masquerader

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Razor's Edge

as Original Music Composer

1941

Wild Geese Calling

as Original Music Composer

1939

Beau Geste

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Hurricane

as Original Music Composer

1941

Ball of Fire

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Real Glory

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Rains Came

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

as Original Music Composer

1937

Dead End

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Dark Angel

as Original Music Composer

1932

Cynara

as Original Music Composer

1942

1939

The Star Maker

as Original Music Composer

1937

Stella Dallas

as Original Music Composer

1935

Cardinal Richelieu

as Original Music Composer

1934

Nana

as Original Music Composer

1934

Kid Millions

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Snake Pit

as Original Music Composer

1937

Slave Ship

as Original Music Composer

1933

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

as Original Music Composer

1949

Twelve O'Clock High

as Original Music Composer

1936

Come and Get It

as Original Music Composer

1931

City Lights

as Music Director

1933

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

as Original Music Composer

1933

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

as Music Director

1933

The Masquerader

as Music Director

1932

Cynara

as Music Director

1940

Brigham Young

as Original Music Composer

1940

Tin Pan Alley

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Little Foxes

as Music Director

1942

It's Everybody's War

as Original Music Composer

1948

Yellow Sky

as Original Music Composer

1934

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

as Original Music Composer

1937

History Is Made at Night

as Music Director

1948

Call Northside 777

as Music Director

1949

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

as Original Music Composer

1951

Take Care of My Little Girl

as Original Music Composer

1944

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

as Original Music Composer

1942

Orchestra Wives

as Music Director

1953

1933

Secrets

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Robe

as Original Music Composer

1958

South Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1949

A Letter to Three Wives

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Hurricane

as Music Director

1955

The Seven Year Itch

as Original Music Composer

1955

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

as Original Music Composer

1956

Anastasia

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Best of Everything

as Original Music Composer

1956

Bus Stop

as Conductor

1956

Bus Stop

as Original Music Composer

1950

Two Flags West

as Music Director

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Original Music Composer

1958

South Pacific

as Conductor

1958

South Pacific

as Music Supervisor

1956

Carousel

as Music Supervisor

1956

Carousel

as Conductor

1936

Modern Times

as Conductor

1962

State Fair

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Desert Rats

as Music Director

1951

Fourteen Hours

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Gift of Love

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

as Original Music Composer

1962

1951

On the Riviera

as Original Music Composer

1950

1951

On the Riviera

as Music Director

1953

1950

No Way Out

as Original Music Composer

1934

The House of Rothschild

as Original Music Composer

1949

Prince of Foxes

as Original Music Composer

1942

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

as Original Music Composer

1941

I Wake Up Screaming

as Additional Music

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Original Music Composer

1948

When My Baby Smiles at Me

as Original Music Composer

1946

Centennial Summer

as Original Music Composer

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Music Director

1942

My Gal Sal

as Music Director

1952

Stars and Stripes Forever

as Music Director

1938

1931

Street Scene

as Music Director

1947

The Brasher Doubloon

as Music Director

1947

Daisy Kenyon

as Music Director

1931

Tonight or Never

as Music Director

1931

Tonight or Never

as Original Music Composer

1936

These Three

as Music Director

1933

Secrets

as Music Director

1947

1961

Flower Drum Song

as Original Music Composer

1940

Girl in 313

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Unholy Garden

as Music Director

1947

The Late George Apley

as Music Director

1936

Born to Dance

as Music Director

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Music Supervisor

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Conductor

1942

Roxie Hart

as Original Music Composer

1935

Broadway Melody of 1936

as Music Director

1949

Dancing in the Dark

as Music Director

1934

1943

December 7th

as Original Music Composer

1942

This Above All

as Music Director

1936

One Rainy Afternoon

as Music Director

1936

One Rainy Afternoon

as Original Music Composer

1934

Our Daily Bread

as Original Music Composer

1940

1961

Flower Drum Song

as Music Supervisor

1961

Flower Drum Song

as Conductor

1937

Dead End

as Music Director

1932

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

as Original Music Composer

1943

Claudia

as Original Music Composer

1931

Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks

as Original Music Composer

1931

Corsair

as Original Music Composer

1953

Call Me Madam

as Music Director

1939

Gunga Din

as Original Music Composer

1941

Belle Starr

as Original Music Composer

1937

Stella Dallas

as Music Director

1936

1941

Charley's Aunt

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Big Lift

as Original Music Composer

1936

Beloved Enemy

as Music Director

1952

1967

Camelot

as Music

1938

Trade Winds

as Music Director

1931

City Lights

as Music Arranger

1935

The Melody Lingers on

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Fighting Sullivans

as Music Director

1953

Dangerous Crossing

as Additional Music

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Music Director

1931

Street Scene

as Music

1932

1942

1938

Blondie

as Music

1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Gunfighter

as Conductor

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Music Director

1967

Camelot

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Pleasure of His Company

as Original Music Composer

1958

A Certain Smile

as Original Music Composer

1940

The Mark of Zorro

as Original Music Composer

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