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Alex North — MetaHistoryBook
Alex North
American composer (1910–1991)
Wikipedia ↗
Wikidata (Q349448) ↗
Details
Instance of
human
Born
4 December 1910
Died
8 September 1991
Place of birth
Chester
Place of death
Los Angeles
Sex or gender
male
Given name
Alex
Family name
North
Sibling
Joseph North
Field of work
film score
Occupation
composer
,
jazz musician
,
film score composer
,
conductor
,
musician
,
bandleader
Citizenship
United States
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
,
Primetime Emmy Award
,
Academy Honorary Award
archives at
Library of Congress Music Division
copyright representative
SESAC
educated at
Juilliard School
,
Curtis Institute of Music
,
Moscow Conservatory
end of work period
1991
languages spoken, written or signed
English
nominated for
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Score
,
Academy Award for Best Original Score
notable work
Unchained Melody
record label
RCA Victor
related category
Category:Films scored by Alex North
start of work period
1937
Connected on Wikidata
Composer of
Spartacus
A Streetcar Named Desire
Good Morning, Vietnam
Cleopatra
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Prizzi's Honor
The Misfits
Viva Zapata!
The Children's Hour
The Rose Tattoo
Unchained Melody
Cheyenne Autumn
Subject of
North, Alex (1910-1991), composer of film and theater music
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Authority files
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Library of Congress ↗
GND ↗
BnF ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗
Influenced
Andrea Morricone