Elmer Bernstein
Sound
1922-04-04 · 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.
Filmography
Cape Fear
2026 · Series
Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
2011 · Movie
Return Of The Ghostbusters
2007 · Movie
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004 · Movie
Far from Heaven
2002 · Movie
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001 · Movie
Chinese Coffee
2000 · Movie
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000 · Movie
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000 · Movie
Keeping the Faith
2000 · Movie
A Storm in Summer
2000 · Movie
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 · Movie
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999 · Movie
Wild Wild West
1999 · Movie
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999 · Movie
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999 · Movie
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
1999 · Movie
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998 · Movie
Puppies for Sale
1998 · Movie
Twilight
1998 · Movie
Fearful Symmetry
1998 · Movie
The Rainmaker
1997 · Movie
Hoodlum
1997 · Movie
Buddy
1997 · Movie
Bulletproof
1996 · Movie
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995 · Movie
Frankie Starlight
1995 · Movie
Canadian Bacon
1995 · Movie
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995 · Series
Search and Destroy
1995 · Movie
Roommates
1995 · Movie
The Hollywood Soundtrack Story
1995 · Movie
The Bible According to Hollywood
1994 · Movie
The Good Son
1993 · Movie
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Movie
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993 · Movie
Fallen Angels
1993 · Series
Lost in Yonkers
1993 · Movie
Mad Dog and Glory
1993 · Movie
The Cemetery Club
1993 · Movie
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992 · Movie
The Babe
1992 · Movie
Cape Fear
1991 · Movie
Rambling Rose
1991 · Movie
A Rage in Harlem
1991 · Movie
Oscar
1991 · Movie
The Field
1990 · Movie
The Grifters
1990 · Movie
Slipstream
1989 · Movie
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989 · Movie
The Good Mother
1988 · Movie
Funny Farm
1988 · Movie
Da
1988 · Movie
Leonard Part 6
1987 · Movie
Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987 · Movie
¡Three Amigos!
1986 · Movie
Legal Eagles
1986 · Movie
Spies Like Us
1985 · Movie
Prince Jack
1985 · Movie
The Black Cauldron
1985 · Movie
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
1985 · Movie
Ghostbusters
1984 · Movie
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983 · Movie
Class
1983 · Movie
Trading Places
1983 · Movie
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983 · Movie
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982 · Movie
Five Days One Summer
1982 · Movie
Genocide
1982 · Movie
An American Werewolf in London
1981 · Movie
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981 · Movie
The Chosen
1981 · Movie
Heavy Metal
1981 · Movie
Stripes
1981 · Movie
Going Ape!
1981 · Movie
Airplane!
1980 · Movie
The Blues Brothers
1980 · Movie
This Year's Blonde
1980 · Movie
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980 · Series
Saturn 3
1980 · Movie
The Great Santini
1979 · Movie
Meatballs
1979 · Movie
Zulu Dawn
1979 · Movie
Charleston
1979 · Movie
Little Women
1978 · Series
Bloodbrothers
1978 · Movie
Animal House
1978 · Movie
Cezanne
1978 · Movie
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
1977 · Movie
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977 · Movie
Powers of Ten
1977 · Movie
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
1977 · Movie
The Incredible Sarah
1976 · Movie
From Noon Till Three
1976 · Movie
The Shootist
1976 · Movie
Serpico: The Deadly Game
1976 · Movie
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975 · Movie
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975 · Movie
Report to the Commissioner
1975 · Movie
Metropolitan Overview
1975 · Movie
The Trial of Billy Jack
1974 · Movie
Nightmare Honeymoon
1974 · Movie
Gold
1974 · Movie
Men of the Dragon
1974 · Movie
McQ
1974 · Movie
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973 · Movie
Incident on a Dark Street
1973 · Movie
Nicholas Copernicus
1973 · Movie
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972 · Movie
The Rookies
1972 · Movie
Computer Perspective
1972 · Movie
Appointment With Destiny
1971 · Series
See No Evil
1971 · Movie
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971 · Movie
Big Jake
1971 · Movie
Doctors' Wives
1971 · Movie
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
1971 · Movie
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971 · Movie
Cannon for Cordoba
1970 · Movie
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970 · Movie
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970 · Movie
The Gypsy Moths
1969 · Movie
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Movie
The Bridge at Remagen
1969 · Movie
True Grit
1969 · Movie
Midas Run
1969 · Movie
Where's Jack?
1969 · Movie
Tops
1969 · Movie
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
1968 · Movie
A Computer Glossary
1968 · Movie
The Scalphunters
1968 · Movie
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
1968 · Movie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 · Movie
Return of the Seven
1966 · Movie
Hawaii
1966 · Movie
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 · Movie
The Silencers
1966 · Movie
View from the People Wall
1966 · Movie
7 Women
1965 · Movie
The Reward
1965 · Movie
The Smithsonian Institution
1965 · Movie
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Movie
The Hallelujah Trail
1965 · Movie
The Bold Men
1965 · Movie
Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965 · Movie
IBM at the Fair
1965 · Movie
Four Days In November
1964 · Movie
The Carpetbaggers
1964 · Movie
The World of Henry Orient
1964 · Movie
The Making of the President 1960
1963 · Movie
Love with the Proper Stranger
1963 · Movie
Kings of the Sun
1963 · Movie
Rampage
1963 · Movie
The Caretakers
1963 · Movie
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie
Hud
1963 · Movie
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 · Movie
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Movie
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Movie
Walk on the Wild Side
1962 · Movie
The Comancheros
1961 · Movie
Summer and Smoke
1961 · Movie
The Young Doctors
1961 · Movie
By Love Possessed
1961 · Movie
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
1961 · Movie
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
1961 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Movie
From the Terrace
1960 · Movie
The Rat Race
1960 · Movie
The Fabulous Fifties
1960 · Movie
An Introduction to Feedback
1960 · Movie
The Story on Page One
1959 · Movie
The Miracle
1959 · Movie
Some Came Running
1958 · Movie
The Buccaneer
1958 · Movie
Anna Lucasta
1958 · Movie
God's Little Acre
1958 · Movie
Kings Go Forth
1958 · Movie
Saddle the Wind
1958 · Movie
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Movie
The Tin Star
1957 · Movie
Toccata for Toy Trains
1957 · Movie
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Movie
Men in War
1957 · Movie
Fear Strikes Out
1957 · Movie
Drango
1957 · Movie
The Information Machine
1957 · Movie
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Movie
The Naked Eye
1956 · Movie
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Movie
It's a Dog's Life
1955 · Movie
Storm Fear
1955 · Movie
The View from Pompey's Head
1955 · Movie
The Eternal Sea
1955 · Movie
House: After Five Years of Living
1955 · Movie
Silent Raiders
1954 · Movie
Make Haste to Live
1954 · Movie
Miss Robin Crusoe
1953 · Movie
Cat-Women of the Moon
1953 · Movie
Robot Monster
1953 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Never Wave at a WAC
1953 · Movie
A Communications Primer
1953 · Movie
Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952 · Movie
Sudden Fear
1952 · Movie
Boots Malone
1952 · Movie
Saturday's Hero
1951 · Movie
Taking The Wheel
Movie
Monty and the Movies
Movie
All About Alfred
Movie