Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein

Known For: Sound

Date Of Birth:1922-04-04

Place Of Birth:New York City, New York, USA

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.

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The Magnificent Seven
Sweet Smell of Success
The Blues Brothers
The Man with the Golden Arm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ghostbusters
Airplane!
An American Werewolf in London
Bulletproof
Birdman of Alcatraz
Mad Dog and Glory
The Age of Innocence
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Stripes
The Black Cauldron
Desire Under the Elms
The Comancheros
The Buccaneer
Far from Heaven
Keeping the Faith
Big Jake
The Great Santini
The Tin Star
The Great Escape
From Noon Till Three
Oscar
¡Three Amigos!
Hud
Spies Like Us
Wild Wild West
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Good Son
Heavy Metal
Cast a Giant Shadow
The Shootist
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Return of the Seven
Legal Eagles
This Year's Blonde
God's Little Acre
Cat-Women of the Moon
Robot Monster
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
The Sons of Katie Elder
Love with the Proper Stranger
Gold
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
The Story on Page One
True Grit
Zulu Dawn
The Grifters
IBM at the Fair
Toccata for Toy Trains
Computer Perspective
Make Haste to Live
Frankie Starlight
Storm Fear
The Good Mother
Cannon for Cordoba
Never Wave at a WAC
The Miracle
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
Leonard Part 6
Midas Run
The Tell-Tale Heart
Saturn 3
The Eternal Sea
The Rainmaker
Trading Places
Bringing Out the Dead
The Caretakers
Walk on the Wild Side
The View from Pompey's Head
Battles of Chief Pontiac
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Cahill: United States Marshal
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
An Introduction to Feedback
Nicholas Copernicus
See No Evil
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
Da
House: After Five Years of Living
The Scalphunters
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
The Fabulous Fifties
McQ
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Cezanne
The Silencers
Serpico: The Deadly Game
Charleston
Saddle the Wind
Anna Lucasta
Sudden Fear
Class
Hawaii
The Hallelujah Trail
The Bridge at Remagen
A Communications Primer
Drango
Nightmare Honeymoon
The Carpetbaggers
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
Airplane II: The Sequel
Bloodbrothers
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Powers of Ten
A Computer Glossary
Gold
The Deep End of the Ocean
The Chosen
Men in War
It's a Dog's Life
Miss Robin Crusoe
Silent Raiders
Twilight
Hoodlum
Buddy
Canadian Bacon
Four Days In November
Cape Fear
Funny Farm
Kings Go Forth
Bringing Out the Dead
Meatballs
The Bold Men
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Doctors' Wives
A Girl Named Tamiko
Summer and Smoke
Eames Lounge Chair
Prince Jack
The Making of the President 1960
The Naked Eye
Boots Malone
From the Terrace
Saturday's Hero
Where's Jack?
The Rat Race
Roommates
Roommates
Lost in Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers
The Babe
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Amazing Grace and Chuck
Search and Destroy
The World of Henry Orient
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Men in War
Fear Strikes Out
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Cape Fear
Chinese Coffee
Five Days One Summer
Animal House
The Ten Commandments
Honky Tonk Freeway
Walk on the Wild Side
The Rookies
Report to the Commissioner
7 Women
Incident on a Dark Street
A Rage in Harlem
Kings of the Sun
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Rambling Rose
The Young Doctors
The Field
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
The Reward
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
A Storm in Summer
Some Came Running
Men of the Dragon
The Incredible Sarah
The Old Curiosity Shop
Slipstream
The Cemetery Club
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
Honky Tonk Freeway
Baby the Rain Must Fall
The Gypsy Moths
Rampage
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
The Trial of Billy Jack
Legal Eagles
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Walk on the Wild Side
Going Ape!
Genocide
Genocide
By Love Possessed
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
Sweet Smell of Success
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers