Michel Legrand

Known For: Sound
Born: February 24, 1932
Place of Birth: Bécon-les-Bruyères, Paris, France
Died: January 26, 2019

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand (24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983). Legrand was born in Paris, France, to his father, Raymond Legrand, who was himself a conductor and composer, and his mother, Marcelle Der-Mikaëlian, who was the sister of conductor Jacques Hélian. Raymond and Marcelle were married in 1929. His maternal gr…

Filmography

Quincy Jones, Music Man

2025 · Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand

2024 · Self

Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black

2024

May December

2023 · Music

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2022 · Self

Le cinéma de Michel Legrand

Le cinéma de Michel Legrand

2022 · Original Music Composer

Michel Legrand, enchanted music

2022 · Original Music Composer, Author, Compositor

Michel Legrand, la musique enchantée

2022 · Original Music Composer

Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort

2021 · self

Hommage à Michel Legrand et Jacques Demy au festival Sœurs Jumelles

2021 · Self (archive footage)

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

2018 · Self

La La La

2018 · Self - Music Composer

The Other Side of the Wind

2018 · Original Music Composer

J'ai perdu Albert

2018 · Original Music Composer

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

2018 · Self - Composer

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

2018 · Self

The Guardians

2017 · Original Music Composer

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

2015 · Music Director, Author

The Price of Fame

2015 · Original Music Composer

Love Lasts Three Years

2011 · Self

Michel Legrand and the Cinema

2011 · Musician

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

2009 · Original Music Composer

La chanson 'Lola'

2008 · Self

The Beaches of Agnès

2008 · Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth

2008 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

2008 · Self

Disco

2008 · Original Music Composer

Callas Assoluta

2007 · Self (archive footage)

Deadly Lessons

2006 · Original Music Composer

Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer

2006 · Self

Cavalcade

2005 · Original Music Composer

The Young Girls of Rochefort

2004 · Music Arranger

Amber Wings

2003 · Original Music Composer

Un film et son époque

2003 · Self

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

2002 · Original Music Composer

Season's Beatings

1999 · Original Music Composer

Vivement dimanche

1998 · Self

Madeline

1998 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

1996 · Original Music Composer

The Ring

1996 · Original Music Composer

The Real Shlemiel

1995 · Original Music Composer

The World of Jacques Demy

1995 · Self, Original Music Composer

Les Miserables

1995 · Original Music Composer

Prêt-à-Porter

1994 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

1994 · Original Music Composer

The Young Girls Turn 25

1993 · Self, Original Music Composer

The Pickle

1993 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time... The Americas

1992 · Original Music Composer

Love at First Sight

1992 · Director

Mountain of Diamonds

1991 · Original Music Composer

Dingo

1991 · Original Music Composer

Gaspard and Robinson

1990 · Original Music Composer

Eternity

1990 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

1990 · Original Music Composer

Carnaval

1990 · Main Title Theme Composer

Flight from Paradise

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Jeweller's Shop

1989 · Original Music Composer

Five Days in June

1989 · Director, Writer

Un coupable

1988 · Original Music Composer

Three Seats for the 26th

1988 · Original Music Composer

Switching Channels

1988 · Original Music Composer

Spiral

1987 · Original Music Composer

Le monde est à vous

1987 · Self

Once Upon a Time... Life

1987 · Original Music Composer

Sacrée soirée

1987 · Self

Nulle part ailleurs

1987 · Self

Casanova

1987 · Original Music Composer

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

1986 · Original Music Composer

As Summers Die

1986 · Original Music Composer

Victoires de la musique

1985 · Self

Promises to Keep

1985 · Original Music Composer

Parking

1985 · Original Music Composer

Going and Coming Back

1985 · Original Music Composer

Palace

1985 · Original Music Composer

Hell Train

1985 · Original Music Composer

Zoom the White Dolphin

1985 · Original Music Composer

Paroles et musique

1984 · Original Music Composer

The Jesse Owens Story

1984 · Original Music Composer

Secret Places

1984 · Original Music Composer

Yentl

1983 · Original Music Composer, Songs

A Love in Germany

1983 · Original Music Composer

Never Say Never Again

1983 · Original Music Composer

Revenge of the Humanoids

1983 · Original Music Composer

Best Friends

1982 · Music, Original Music Composer, Songs

Slapstick of Another Kind

1982 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time… Space

1982 · Original Music Composer

A Woman Called Golda

1982 · Original Music Composer

Bankers Also Have Souls

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Button

1982 · Original Music Composer

Champs-Elysées

1982 · Self - Main Guest

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

1981 · Original Music Composer

Bolero

1981 · Original Music Composer

Falling in Love Again

1980 · Original Music Composer

Atlantic City

1980 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Hunter

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Mountain Men

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen

1979 · Original Music Composer

Lady Oscar

1979 · Original Music Composer

Once Upon a Time… Man

1978 · Original Music Composer

The Phoenix

1978 · Original Music Composer

Roads to the South

1978 · Original Music Composer

One Can Say It Without Getting Angry

1978 · Original Music Composer

The Other Side of Midnight

1977 · Original Music Composer

Gulliver's Travels

1977 · Original Music Composer

Ode to Billy Joe

1976 · Original Music Composer

Cérémonie des César

1976 · Self - Presenter, Self - Host

Gable and Lombard

1976 · Original Music Composer

La Décharge

1976 · Original Music Composer

30 millions d'amis

1976 · Self

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

1975 · Original Music Composer

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

1975 · Original Music Composer

Lovers Like Us

1975 · Original Music Composer

Ann-Margret Smith

1975 · Self

Numéro un

1975 · Self

Cage Without a Key

1975 · Original Music Composer

Système 2

1975 · Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975 · Self

Spécial cinéma

1974 · Self

Give Me Liberty

Give Me Liberty

1974 · Music

Our Time

1974 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

It's Good to Be Alive

1974 · Original Music Composer

The Three Musketeers

1973 · Original Music Composer

Breezy

1973 · Original Music Composer

A Slightly Pregnant Man

1973 · Original Music Composer

F for Fake

1973 · Original Music Composer

A Doll's House

1973 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Cops and Robbers

1973 · Original Music Composer

40 Carats

1973 · Original Music Composer

Impossible Object

1973 · Original Music Composer

Bequest to the Nation

1973 · Original Music Composer

Le Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Hostage Gang

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Outside Man

1972 · Original Music Composer

Not Dumb, the Bird

1972 · Original Music Composer

Lady Sings the Blues

1972 · Original Music Composer

ABC Afterschool Special

1972 · Self, Book, Original Music Composer

One Is a Lonely Number

1972 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Portnoy's Complaint

1972 · Original Music Composer

Hearth Fires

1972 · Original Music Composer

A Time for Loving

1972 · Grondin, Original Music Composer

La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur

1972 · Original Music Composer

Le Grand Échiquier

1972 · Self, Self - Main Guest

The Old Maid

1972 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Brian's Song

1971 · Original Music Composer

A Little Sun in Cold Water

1971 · Original Music Composer

Touch and Go

1971 · Original Music Composer

Le Mans

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Go-Between

1971 · Original Music Composer

Summer of '42

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Married Couple of the Year Two

1971 · Original Music Composer

Samedi soir

1971 · Self

Donkey Skin

1970 · Original Music Composer, Songs

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1970 · Original Music Composer

Pieces of Dreams

1970 · Original Music Composer, Songs

Wuthering Heights

1970 · Original Music Composer

To Catch a Pebble

To Catch a Pebble

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Happy Ending

1969 · Original Music Composer, Songs

The Picasso Summer

1969 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Castle Keep

1969 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Swimming Pool

1969 · Original Music Composer

Play Dirty

1969 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Thomas Crown Affair

1968 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Ice Station Zebra

1968 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

A Hatful of Rain

1968 · Original Music Composer

Sweet November

1968 · Original Music Composer

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968 · Original Music Composer

The Man in the Buick

1968 · Music Director, Original Music Composer

Pretty Polly

1967 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

La Chinoise

1967 · Original Music Composer

The Oldest Profession

1967 · Original Music Composer

The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967 · Songs, Original Music Composer, Other, Music Director

1999 A.D.

1967 · Original Music Composer

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

1966 · Original Music Composer

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean

1966 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

L’Or et le plomb

1966 · Musician

Funny Money

1966 · Original Music Composer

A Matter of Resistance

1966 · Original Music Composer

Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort

1966 · Self

Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

1966 · Self

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

1965 · Original Music Composer

The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora

1965 · Original Music Composer

From a Distant Gaze

1964 · Original Music Composer

Le Grand Escroc

1964 · Original Music Composer

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964 · Original Music Composer

Band of Outsiders

1964 · Original Music Composer

The Lovers of the France

1964 · Original Music Composer

Agent 38-24-36

1964 · Original Music Composer

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964 · Jean (singing voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Conductor, Songs

The Danny Kaye Show

1963 · Self

Maigret Sees Red

1963 · Original Music Composer

The Lovely Month of May

1963 · Original Music Composer

Love is a Ball

1963 · Original Music Composer

Bay of Angels

1963 · Original Music Composer

L'Amérique lunaire

L'Amérique lunaire

1963 · Music

Illuminations

1963 · Music

Eva

1962 · Original Music Composer

The Gentleman from Epsom

1962 · Original Music Composer

Vivre Sa Vie

1962 · Original Music Composer

Playtime in Paris

1962 · Original Music Composer

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962 · Bob, the Pianist, Original Music Composer, Songs

Fiancés on the Bridge

1962 · Original Music Composer, Musician

La Colère

1962 · Music

L'Envie

1962 · Music

La Gourmandise

1962 · Sound

Lust

1962 · Original Music Composer

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962 · Original Music Composer

La Paresse

1962 · Original Music Composer

A Swelled Head

1962 · Original Music Composer

The Counterfeiters of Paris

1961 · Original Music Composer

A Woman Is a Woman

1961 · Original Music Composer

It Means That Much to Me

1961 · Original Music Composer

Lola

1961 · Original Music Composer

Melancholia

1961 · Original Music Composer

The French Game

1960 · Original Music Composer

The Door Slams

1960 · Original Music Composer

Jack of Spades

1960 · Original Music Composer

America as Seen by a Frenchman

1960 · Original Music Composer

Jours de mes années

1959 · Music

Discorama

1959 · Self

Sinners of Paris

1958 · Original Music Composer

Too Many Lovers

1957 · Conductor

The Tricyclist

1957 · Original Music Composer

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Nominee

Cinépanorama

1956 · Self

Razzia

1955 · Music Director, Music Arranger

Lovers' Net

1955 · Original Music Composer

Visages de Paris

1955 · Original Music Composer

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Her Last Christmas

1952 · Conductor (uncredited)

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