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Bernard HerrmannBiography |
Birth: 1911 in New York, New York
Death: 1975 in Los Angeles, California
Notes:
- Educated at Julliard.
- Conducted at age 20.
- First worked on radio with Orsen Welles, scoring "War of the Worlds".
- He also worked with Welles on Citizen Kane.
- He also scored nine films for Alfred Hitchcock, including Psycho.
- He scored music for the TV shows "Gunsmoke" and "The Twilight Zone"
- He won an Academy Award his first year scoring films (Devil and Daniel Webster).
Highlight Films:
Taxi Driver (AA:N) (1976)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Cape Fear (1962)
Psycho (1960)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Citizen Kane (AA:N) (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (AA:W) (1941)
Links:
The International Movie Database
The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages