- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- March 29, 1943
- Place of Birth
- Volos, Thessaly, Greece
- Died
- May 17, 2022
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου, pronounced [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.u]; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/ vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης, pronounced [vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Born in Agria and raised in Athens, Vangelis began his career in the 1960s as a member of the rock bands the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child; the latter's album 666 (1972) is recognised as a progressive-psychedelic roc…
Filmography
movie2790
2025 · Music
movieBeyond, ode to the Earth
2024 · Music
movieMilva, diva per sempre
2024 · Himself
movieWe are Stardust
2023 · Music
movieNuclear Now
2023 · Original Music Composer
movieVangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Self
movieThe Creator of the Jungle
2014 · Songs
movieTwilight of Shadows
2014 · Original Music Composer
movieVangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
2013 · Self
tvSound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
2013 · Self - Interviewed Guest
Rupture: A Matter of Life OR Death
movieRupture: A Matter of Life OR Death
2011 · Music
movieEl Greco
2007 · Original Music Composer
movieAlexander
2004 · Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
movieVangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey)
2002 · Himself
movieCavafy
1996 · Original Music Composer
movieBitter Moon
1992 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Plague
1992 · Original Music Composer
movie1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992 · Original Music Composer
ECHO-Verleihung
tvECHO-Verleihung
1992 · Self
movieVangelis – Eureka (Live at Rotterdam, 1991)
1991 · Himself
movieBlack Ink
1991 · Music
movieStarwatcher
1991 · Music
movieFrancesco
1989 · Original Music Composer
movieNosferatu in Venice
1988 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Bounty
1984 · Original Music Composer
movieAntarctica
1983 · Original Music Composer
movieBlade Runner
1982 · Original Music Composer
movieMissing
1982 · Original Music Composer
movieChariots of Fire
1981 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Cosmic Machine
1981 · Music
tvCosmos: A Personal Voyage
1980 · Music Director
movieMater amatísima
1980 · Original Music Composer
movieDeath of a Princess
1980 · Music
movieDefiant Delta
1980 · Original Music Composer
The Mantle of Love
movieThe Mantle of Love
1978 · Music
movieCrime and Passion
1976 · Music, Original Music Composer
movieThe Wild Nation
1976 · Music
movieFace in Motion
1976 · Music
movieDo You Hear the Dogs Barking?
1974 · Music
movieLove
1974 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Apocalypse of the Animals
1973 · Music
tvThe Apocalypse of the Animals
1973 · Music
movieGeorges Mathieu or the Fury of Being
1971 · Self, Music
movieFrenzy
1971 · Original Music Composer
movieSex-Power
1970 · Original Music Composer
movieVortex
1967 · Original Music Composer
movieFive Thousand Lies
1966 · Music
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
tv4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
1966 · Self
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self