Alex North
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations.
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Movies (77)
North and the Music of the South
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
2002 · Self (archive footage)
The Last Butterfly
1991 · Original Music Composer
The Penitent
1988 · Original Music Composer
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Original Music Composer
The Dead
1987 · Original Music Composer
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986 · Music
Death of a Salesman
1985 · Original Music Composer
Prizzi's Honor
1985 · Original Music Composer
Under the Volcano
1984 · Original Music Composer
Sister, Sister
1982 · Original Music Composer
Dragonslayer
1981 · Original Music Composer
Carny
1980 · Original Music Composer
Wise Blood
1979 · Original Music Composer
Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978 · Original Music Composer
The Passover Plot
1976 · Original Music Composer
Bite the Bullet
1975 · Original Music Composer
Journey into Fear
1975 · Original Music Composer
Shanks
1974 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Once Upon a Scoundrel
1974 · Original Music Composer
Lost in the Stars
1974 · Music Director
Pocket Money
1972 · Original Music Composer
Willard
1971 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
A Dream of Kings
1969 · Original Music Composer
Hard Contract
1969 · Original Music Composer
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 · Original Music Composer
The Devil's Brigade
1968 · Original Music Composer
Africa
1967 · Music
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Original Music Composer
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 · Original Music Composer
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Arranger
The Outrage
1964 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Cleopatra
1963 · Original Music Composer
All Fall Down
1962 · Original Music Composer
The Children's Hour
1961 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Sanctuary
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Misfits
1961 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Spartacus
1960 · Original Music Composer
The Wonderful Country
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Sound and the Fury
1959 · Original Music Composer
South Seas Adventure
1958 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Hot Spell
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Original Music Composer, Songs
Stage Struck
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Edge of Innocence
1957 · Music
The Bachelor Party
1957 · Original Music Composer
Four Girls in Town
1957 · Original Music Composer
The King and Four Queens
1956 · Music, Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Rainmaker
1956 · Original Music Composer
Heritage of Anger
1956 · Music
The Big Slide
1956 · Music
The Country Husband
1956 · Music
Rendezvous in Black
1956 · Music
Sizeman and Son
1956 · Sound
The Bad Seed
1956 · Original Music Composer
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 · Original Music Composer
The Rose Tattoo
1955 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Man with the Gun
1955 · Original Music Composer
Unchained
1955 · Original Music Composer
Daddy Long Legs
1955 · Music
The Racers
1955 · Original Music Composer
Désirée
1954 · Original Music Composer
Decision for Chemistry
1954 · Original Music Composer
Go Man Go
1954 · Original Music Composer
The American Road
1953 · Music
The Member of the Wedding
1952 · Original Music Composer
Les Miserables
1952 · Original Music Composer
Pony Soldier
1952 · Original Music Composer
Viva Zapata!
1952 · Original Music Composer
Death of a Salesman
1951 · Original Music Composer
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Original Music Composer
The 13th Letter
1951 · Original Music Composer
The Murder Club
1950 · Music
Library of Congress
1945 · Music
People of the Cumberland
1937 · Music
China Strikes Back
1937 · Music
Heart of Spain
1937 · Music
