Christophe Beck

Christophe Beck

Known For: Sound

Date Of Birth:1972-11-30

Place Of Birth:Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Christophe Beck (born in 1968 in Montreal) is a Canadian television and film score composer and conductor. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and Frozen 2 (2019), the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), as well as the TV miniseries WandaVision (2021), Hawkeye (2021), and Agatha All Along (2024) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as Disney’s 100th anniversary logo. He composed the scores for several of Shawn Levy's films, including Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), The Internship (2013), and Free Guy (2021). Notably, he won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is also known for composing the scores of the film series The Hangover (2009-2013). He is the older brother of composer, pianist, and rapper Chilly Gonzales. Beck started piano lessons at the age of five, and by the time he turned eleven, he was learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing with his first band, Newton Talks, who licensed a song to Hot Tub Time Machine. Beck attended Crescent School, where he studied piano, saxophone, and drums. He wrote two musicals while studying music at Yale University. Upon graduation, Beck moved to Los Angeles to attend USC's film scoring program, where he studied with Jerry Goldsmith. A personal recommendation from Buddy Baker, then head of the USC Music Department, led to his first assignment for a Canadian TV series called White Fang. Several TV series later, he was asked to score the second season of the WB Network show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beck received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for his score to the Buffy episode, “Becoming, Part 1.” In 2000, the cheerleading comedy Bring It On launched Beck's film career. His credits include Under the Tuscan Sun, Edge of Tomorrow, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Pitch Perfect, and the Hangover trilogy. More recently, Beck scored the Oscar- and Grammy-winning animated film Frozen and several installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). At the D23 Expo in 2022, it was announced that Beck had composed a new arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany Disney's 100th anniversary logo, conducted by Tim Davies, which debuted ahead of the film Strange World. Beck works out of his studio in Santa Monica, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christophe Beck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Castings

Confidence
Without a Paddle
The Tuxedo
We Are Marshall
The Skulls III
Under the Tuscan Sun
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Cheaper by the Dozen
A Cinderella Story
Taxi
Big Fat Liar
All About Steve
Stealing Harvard
Garfield
What Happens in Vegas
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
School for Scoundrels
Two for the Money
Elektra
The Guilt Trip
The Pink Panther 2
Guinevere
Thick as Thieves
R.I.P.D.
The Hangover
The Watch
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Let the Devil Wear Black
Confidence
Free Guy
Tower Heist
The Hangover Part III
Paperman
Runner Runner
The Internship
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Killing Mr. Griffin
Bone Daddy
Earthquake in New York
Coming Soon
Friends 'Til The End
Airborne
Little Black Book
Ice Princess
The Perfect Man
Waiting for "Superman"
Muppets Most Wanted
Lou
Anon
An Ordinary Man
Once Upon a Snowman
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
The Greatest
Death at a Funeral
The Hangover Part II
Frozen
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Edge of Tomorrow
Cedar Rapids
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Frozen Fever
Hot Tub Time Machine
Get Hard
Hot Pursuit
Year of the Dog
Pitch Perfect
Ant-Man
Good Kill
Hot Tub Time Machine
This Means War
The Alarmist
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Movie 43
Due Date
Sisters
Zoom
Drillbit Taylor
Crossworlds
The Peanuts Movie
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
RED
Date Night
Phoebe in Wonderland
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
The Pink Panther
Post Grad
Fred Claus
Just Married
Interstate 60
The Sentinel
Charlie Bartlett
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Road House
Red Army
Walkaway Joe
Burlesque
Unfrosted
License to Wed
Let's Be Cops
Wolfpack Only: The Hangover Retrospective
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
American Made
Nimona
Cake
The Marc Pease Experience
3 Needles
The Instigators
Yours, Mine & Ours
Trolls
Charlie Countryman
Wolf Girl
Mysteries of the Jules Rimet Trophy
Gringo
Endless Love
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Muppets
The Skulls II
The Christmas Chronicles
Frozen II
American Wedding
Saved!
The Event
Den 12. mann
Like a Boss
Watson
The Road We've Traveled
Bring It On
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Dog Park