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Alex NorthBiography |
Birth: 1910 in Chester, Pennsylvania
Death: 1991 in Pacific Palisades, California
Notes:
- Educated at Julliard, also studied under Aaron Copland.
- He wrote a score to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but director Stanley Kubrick pulled his music in favor of existing classical works.
- He did not win any Academy Awards for his scores, but in 1986 the Academy gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award.
- He did win a Golden Globe, however.
Highlight Films:
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Prizzi's Honor (1987)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (AA:N) (GG:W) (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (score rejected) (1968)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (AA:N) (1966)
Spartacus (AA:N) (1960)
Death of a Salesman (AA:N) (1951)
Street Car Named Desire (AA:N) (1951)
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