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Alex North
Highest Rated: 97% The Misfits (1961)
Lowest Rated: 20% Desiree (1954)
Birthday: Dec 4, 1910
Birthplace: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Composer of ballets, symphonies and stage music whose work on Elia Kazan's Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman" moved the director to bring him to Hollywood to compose the score for "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951). Lyrical and jazz-influenced, the score earned North the first of 15 Oscar nominations (he never won) and introduced the sparer, more economic style of orchestration that eventually displaced the lusher scores of the 1930s and 40s.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Penitent | Original Music | - | 1988 |
| 94% | 77% | The Dead | Original Music | $766.4K | 1987 |
| 89% | 82% | Good Morning, Vietnam | Original Music | $123.9M | 1987 |
| 85% | 62% | Prizzi's Honor | Original Music | $26.6M | 1985 |
| 84% | 62% | Dragonslayer | Original Music | - | 1981 |
| 88% | 74% | Wise Blood | Original Music | - | 1979 |
| 73% | 54% | Bite the Bullet | Original Music | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey Into Fear | Original Music | - | 1975 |
| 52% | 37% | Willard | Original Music | - | 1971 |
| 60% | 68% | The Devil's Brigade | Original Music | - | 1968 |
| 96% | 90% | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Original Music | - | 1966 |
| 56% | 67% | Cleopatra | Original Music | - | 1963 |
| 40% | 54% | All Fall Down | Original Music | - | 1962 |
| 80% | 84% | The Children's Hour | Original Music | - | 1961 |
| 97% | 78% | The Misfits | Original Music | - | 1961 |
| 94% | 87% | Spartacus | Original Music | $1.7M | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Wonderful Country | Original Music | - | 1959 |
| 60% | 44% | The Sound and the Fury | Original Music | - | 1959 |
| 86% | 83% | The Long, Hot Summer | Original Music | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South Seas Adventure | Original Music | - | 1958 |
| 80% | 47% | The Bachelor Party | Original Music | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Stage Struck | Original Music | - | 1957 |
| 63% | 82% | The Bad Seed | Original Music | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The King and Four Queens | Original Music | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Man With the Gun | Original Music | - | 1955 |
| 86% | 75% | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Original Music | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Daddy Long Legs | Original Music | - | 1955 |
| 63% | 73% | The Rose Tattoo | Original Music | - | 1955 |
| 20% | 68% | Desiree | Original Music | - | 1954 |
| 56% | 76% | Viva Zapata! | Original Music | - | 1952 |
| 86% | 55% | The Member of the Wedding | Original Music | - | 1952 |
| 97% | 90% | A Streetcar Named Desire | Original Music | - | 1951 |