Biografía y filmografía

John Debney

John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt.

Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004).

The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979.

After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler.

In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5.

Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators.

Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas.

He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006.

Description above from the Wikipedia article John Debney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Fotos

Películas (189)

The Man with the Bag

2026 · Original Music Composer

You, Me & Tuscany

2026 · Original Music Composer

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

2025 · Original Music Composer

In Your Dreams

2025 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024 · Original Music Composer

Space Cadet

2024 · Original Music Composer

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024 · Original Music Composer

The Garfield Movie

2024 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Under the Boardwalk

2023 · Original Music Composer

Spy Kids: Armageddon

2023 · Original Music Composer

Hypnotic

2023 · Additional Music

Bad Luck Spot!

2023 · Music

80 for Brady

2023 · Original Music Composer

Hocus Pocus 2

2022 · Original Music Composer

Luck

2022 · Original Music Composer

Marry Me

2022 · Original Music Composer

American Underdog

2021 · Original Music Composer

Home Sweet Home Alone

2021 · Original Music Composer

Clifford the Big Red Dog

2021 · Original Music Composer

Come Away

2020 · Original Music Composer

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

2020 · Original Music Composer

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

2020 · Music Man

Asteroid Hunters

2020 · Original Music Composer

I Still Believe

2020 · Original Music Composer

Lake of Death

2019 · Original Music Composer

Sextuplets

2019 · Original Music Composer

Brian Banks

2019 · Original Music Composer

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

2019 · Original Music Composer

The Beach Bum

2019 · Original Music Composer

Isn't It Romantic

2019 · Original Music Composer

Silent Night: A Song for the World

2018 · Self

Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash

2018 · Self

Beirut

2018 · Original Music Composer

Chiefs

2018 · Original Music Composer

The Greatest Showman

2017 · Original Music Composer

Flint

2017 · Original Music Composer

Home Again

2017 · Original Music Composer

Score: A Film Music Documentary

2017 · Self

Growing Up Wild

2016 · Original Music Composer

Scrat: Spaced Out

2016 · Original Music Composer

League of Gods

2016 · Original Music Composer

Ice Age: Collision Course

2016 · Original Music Composer

Mother's Day

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Jungle Book

2016 · Original Music Composer

The Young Messiah

2016 · Original Music Composer

Broken Horses

2015 · Original Music Composer

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

2015 · Original Music Composer

Stonehearst Asylum

2014 · Original Music Composer

The Cobbler

2014 · Original Music Composer

Walk of Shame

2014 · Original Music Composer

Draft Day

2014 · Original Music Composer

The After

2014 · Original Music Composer

Best Worst Friends

2013 · Original Music Composer

Jobs

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Call

2013 · Original Music Composer

Alex Cross

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Three Stooges

2012 · Original Music Composer

A Thousand Words

2012 · Original Music Composer

New Year's Eve

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Double

2011 · Original Music Composer

Dream House

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Change-Up

2011 · Original Music Composer

No Strings Attached

2011 · Original Music Composer

Yogi Bear

2010 · Original Music Composer

Predators

2010 · Original Music Composer

Iron Man 2

2010 · Original Music Composer

Snowmen

2010 · Original Music Composer

Valentine's Day

2010 · Original Music Composer

Old Dogs

2009 · Original Music Composer

Aliens in the Attic

2009 · Original Music Composer

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009 · Original Music Composer

Hannah Montana: The Movie

2009 · Original Music Composer

Hotel for Dogs

2009 · Original Music Composer

My Best Friend's Girl

2008 · Original Music Composer

Swing Vote

2008 · Original Music Composer

Meet Dave

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

2008 · Additional Music

The Seed

2008 · Music

Evan Almighty

2007 · Original Music Composer

Georgia Rule

2007 · Original Music Composer

By His Wounds We Are Healed: Making 'The Passion of the Christ'

2007 · Music

Idlewild

2006 · Original Music Composer

Barnyard

2006 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Everyone's Hero

2006 · Original Music Composer

The Ant Bully

2006 · Original Music Composer

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

2006 · Self

Keeping Up with the Steins

2006 · Original Music Composer

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

2005 · Original Music Composer

Zathura: A Space Adventure

2005 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Chicken Little

2005 · Original Music Composer

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

2005 · Original Music Composer

Duma

2005 · Original Music Composer

Sin City

2005 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Pacifier

2005 · Original Music Composer

Christmas with the Kranks

2004 · Original Music Composer

Elf: That's a Wrap

2004 · Self

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

2004 · Original Music Composer

Raising Helen

2004 · Original Music Composer

The Whole Ten Yards

2004 · Original Music Composer

The Passion of the Christ

2004 · Original Music Composer

Welcome to Mooseport

2004 · Original Music Composer

Elf

2003 · Original Music Composer

Bruce Almighty

2003 · Original Music Composer

Malibu's Most Wanted

2003 · Original Music Composer

The Hot Chick

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Tuxedo

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Sweatbox

2002 · Self

Swimfan

2002 · Original Music Composer

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Scorpion King

2002 · Original Music Composer

Dragonfly

2002 · Original Music Composer

Snow Dogs

2002 · Original Music Composer

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

2001 · Original Music Composer

The Princess Diaries

2001 · Original Music Composer

Cats & Dogs

2001 · Original Music Composer

Heartbreakers

2001 · Original Music Composer

Spy Kids

2001 · Original Music Composer

See Spot Run

2001 · Original Music Composer

The Emperor's New Groove

2000 · Original Music Composer

Running Mates

2000 · Original Music Composer

The Replacements

2000 · Original Music Composer

Relative Values

2000 · Original Music Composer

Michael Jordan to the Max

2000 · Music

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

1999 · Original Music Composer

End of Days

1999 · Original Music Composer

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

1999 · Music

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

1999 · Original Music Composer

Dick

1999 · Original Music Composer

Inspector Gadget

1999 · Original Music Composer

Komodo

1999 · Original Music Composer

G-Saviour

1999 · Original Music Composer

Lost & Found

1999 · Original Music Composer

My Favorite Martian

1999 · Original Music Composer

I'll Be Home for Christmas

1998 · Original Music Composer

Paulie

1998 · Original Music Composer

Justice League of America

1997 · Original Music Composer

I Know What You Did Last Summer

1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Liar Liar

1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Relic

1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Carpool

1996 · Original Music Composer

Doctor Who

1996 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance

Getting Away with Murder

1996 · Original Music Composer

Chameleon

1996 · Original Music Composer

Cutthroat Island

1995 · Original Music Composer

Sudden Death

1995 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Runaway Brain

1995 · Original Music Composer

Kansas

1995 · Original Music Composer

In Pursuit of Honor

1995 · Original Music Composer

Houseguest

1995 · Original Music Composer

Little Giants

1994 · Original Music Composer

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

1994 · Original Music Composer