Bear McCreary
Sound
1979-02-17 · Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Filmography
The Devil's Mouth
2026 · Movie
Goodbye, Monster
2026 · Movie
M.I.A.
2026 · Series
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
2026 · Movie
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast
2025 · Series
Outlander: Blood of My Blood
2025 · Series
Drop
2025 · Movie
We Never Smiled in the 90’s
2024 · Movie
Going Home Again: Making The 4:30 Movie
2024 · Movie
The 4:30 Movie
2024 · Movie
Imaginary
2024 · Movie
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024 · Movie
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
2024 · Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023 · Series
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
2023 · Movie
We Have a Ghost
2023 · Movie
Splinter
2023 · Movie
The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022 · Series
Call Me Miss Cleo
2022 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 · Series
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening
2022 · Movie
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022 · Movie
Last Seen Alive
2022 · Movie
Halo
2022 · Series
This Game's Called Murder
2021 · Movie
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
2021 · Series
Fund the Bat
2020 · Movie
Freaky
2020 · Movie
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
2020 · Movie
Ava
2020 · Movie
Snowpiercer
2020 · Series
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020 · Movie
The Dark Tower
2020 · Movie
Fantasy Island
2020 · Movie
See
2019 · Series
Eli
2019 · Movie
Child's Play
2019 · Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Movie
Rim of the World
2019 · Movie
Raising Kratos
2019 · Movie
The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie
Proven Innocent
2019 · Series
Happy Death Day 2U
2019 · Movie
Pooka!
2018 · Movie
Welcome Home
2018 · Movie
I Still See You
2018 · Movie
Hell Fest
2018 · Movie
Animal Crackers
2018 · Movie
Tau
2018 · Movie
The Shadow Hours
2018 · Movie
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018 · Movie
A Holliston Halloween
2017 · Movie
Unrest
2017 · Movie
Happy Death Day
2017 · Movie
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · Series
Rebel in the Rye
2017 · Movie
Victor Crowley
2017 · Movie
Revolt
2017 · Movie
Colossal
2017 · Movie
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017 · Movie
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
2016 · Series
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 · Movie
The Boy
2016 · Movie
The Forest
2016 · Movie
Everly
2015 · Movie
Digging Up the Marrow
2015 · Movie
Constantine
2014 · Series
Intruders
2014 · Series
Outlander
2014 · Series
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
2014 · Movie
Black Sails
2014 · Series
Knights of Badassdom
2014 · Movie
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 · Series
Europa Report
2013 · Movie
Defiance
2013 · Series
Da Vinci's Demons
2013 · Series
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
2012 · Movie
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
2012 · Series
The Asset
2012 · Movie
Black Mirror
2011 · Series
Chillerama
2011 · Movie
The Cape
2011 · Series
The Walking Dead
2010 · Series
Step Up 3D
2010 · Movie
The Making of The Walking Dead
2010 · Movie
Caprica
2010 · Series
Human Target
2010 · Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009 · Movie
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008 · Series
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007 · Movie
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
2007 · Movie
Rest Stop
2006 · Movie
Eureka
2006 · Series
Battlestar Galactica
2004 · Series
Periphery, Texas
2002 · Movie