Elmer Bernstein

Known For: Sound
Born: April 4, 1922
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Died: August 18, 2004

Elmer Bernstein

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 te…

Filmography

Cape Fear

2026 · Music

Torrente 4: Lethal crisis

2011 · Music

Return Of The Ghostbusters

2007 · Compositor

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

2004 · Original Music Composer

Far from Heaven

2002 · Original Music Composer

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

2001 · Self

Chinese Coffee

2000 · Original Music Composer

Frank Sinatra Memorial

2000 · Self

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

2000 · Self

Keeping the Faith

2000 · Original Music Composer

A Storm in Summer

2000 · Music Producer

Bringing Out the Dead

1999 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999 · Original Music Composer

Wild Wild West

1999 · Original Music Composer

Making 'Taxi Driver'

1999 · Self

The Deep End of the Ocean

1999 · Original Music Composer

Imagining 'Heavy Metal'

1999 · Music

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion

1998 · Self - Composer

Puppies for Sale

Puppies for Sale

1998 · Music

Twilight

1998 · Original Music Composer

Fearful Symmetry

1998 · Self

The Rainmaker

1997 · Original Music Composer

Hoodlum

1997 · Original Music Composer

Buddy

1997 · Original Music Composer

Bulletproof

1996 · Original Music Composer

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995 · Original Music Composer

Frankie Starlight

1995 · Original Music Composer

Canadian Bacon

1995 · Original Music Composer

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

1995 · Original Music Composer

Search and Destroy

1995 · Original Music Composer

Roommates

1995 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

The Hollywood Soundtrack Story

The Hollywood Soundtrack Story

1995 · Self

The Bible According to Hollywood

1994 · Self

The Good Son

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Age of Innocence

1993 · Original Music Composer

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

1993 · Self

Fallen Angels

1993 · Main Title Theme Composer

Lost in Yonkers

1993 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Mad Dog and Glory

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Cemetery Club

1993 · Original Music Composer

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

1992 · Self

The Babe

1992 · Original Music Composer

Cape Fear

1991 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Rambling Rose

1991 · Original Music Composer

A Rage in Harlem

1991 · Original Music Composer

Oscar

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Field

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Grifters

1990 · Original Music Composer

Slipstream

1989 · Original Music Composer

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Good Mother

1988 · Original Music Composer

Funny Farm

1988 · Original Music Composer

Da

1988 · Music

Leonard Part 6

1987 · Original Music Composer

Amazing Grace and Chuck

1987 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

¡Three Amigos!

1986 · Original Music Composer

Legal Eagles

1986 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Spies Like Us

1985 · Original Music Composer

Prince Jack

1985 · Music

The Black Cauldron

1985 · Original Music Composer

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie

1985 · Music

Ghostbusters

1984 · Original Music Composer

Michael Jackson's Thriller

1983 · Music

Class

1983 · Original Music Composer

Trading Places

1983 · Original Music Composer

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

1983 · Original Music Composer

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982 · Original Music Composer

Five Days One Summer

1982 · Original Music Composer

Genocide

1982 · Conductor, Music

An American Werewolf in London

1981 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981 · Original Music Composer

The Chosen

1981 · Original Music Composer

Heavy Metal

1981 · Original Music Composer

Stripes

1981 · Original Music Composer

Going Ape!

1981 · Original Music Composer

Airplane!

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Blues Brothers

1980 · Original Music Composer

This Year's Blonde

1980 · Original Music Composer

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

1980 · Music

Saturn 3

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Great Santini

1979 · Original Music Composer

Meatballs

1979 · Original Music Composer

Zulu Dawn

1979 · Original Music Composer

Charleston

1979 · Music

Little Women

1978 · Music

Bloodbrothers

1978 · Original Music Composer

Animal House

1978 · Original Music Composer

Cezanne

1978 · Music

Calypso's Search for the Britannic

1977 · Music

The 3,000 Mile Chase

1977 · Music

Powers of Ten

1977 · Music

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Incredible Sarah

1976 · Music

From Noon Till Three

1976 · Songwriter (uncredited), Original Music Composer

The Shootist

1976 · Original Music Composer

Serpico: The Deadly Game

1976 · Music

The Old Curiosity Shop

1975 · Original Music Composer

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

1975 · Original Music Composer

Report to the Commissioner

1975 · Original Music Composer

Metropolitan Overview

Metropolitan Overview

1975 · Music

The Trial of Billy Jack

1974 · Original Music Composer

Nightmare Honeymoon

1974 · Original Music Composer

Gold

1974 · Original Music Composer, Songs

Men of the Dragon

1974 · Music

McQ

1974 · Original Music Composer

Cahill: United States Marshal

1973 · Original Music Composer

Incident on a Dark Street

1973 · Original Music Composer

Nicholas Copernicus

1973 · Music

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972 · Original Music Composer

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

1972 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Rookies

1972 · Music

Computer Perspective

1972 · Music

Appointment With Destiny

Appointment With Destiny

1971 · Original Music Composer

See No Evil

1971 · Original Music Composer

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

1971 · Music

Big Jake

1971 · Original Music Composer

Doctors' Wives

1971 · Original Music Composer

The Tell-Tale Heart

1971 · Music

Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger

1971 · Music

Cannon for Cordoba

1970 · Original Music Composer

A Walk in the Spring Rain

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

1970 · Original Music Composer

The Gypsy Moths

1969 · Original Music Composer

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Bridge at Remagen

1969 · Music

True Grit

1969 · Original Music Composer, Songs

Midas Run

1969 · Original Music Composer

Where's Jack?

1969 · Music

Tops

1969 · Music

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

1968 · Original Music Composer

A Computer Glossary

1968 · Music

The Scalphunters

1968 · Original Music Composer

A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

1968 · Music

Thoroughly Modern Millie

1967 · Original Music Composer

Return of the Seven

1966 · Original Music Composer

Hawaii

1966 · Original Music Composer

Cast a Giant Shadow

1966 · Original Music Composer

The Silencers

1966 · Original Music Composer

View from the People Wall

View from the People Wall

1966 · Music

7 Women

1965 · Original Music Composer

The Reward

1965 · Original Music Composer

The Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution

1965 · Music

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965 · Original Music Composer

The Hallelujah Trail

1965 · Music

The Bold Men

1965 · Music Supervisor

Baby the Rain Must Fall

1965 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

IBM at the Fair

1965 · Music

Four Days In November

1964 · Original Music Composer

The Carpetbaggers

1964 · Original Music Composer

The World of Henry Orient

1964 · Original Music Composer

The Making of the President 1960

1963 · Music

Love with the Proper Stranger

1963 · Original Music Composer

Kings of the Sun

1963 · Original Music Composer

Rampage

1963 · Music

The Caretakers

1963 · Original Music Composer

The Great Escape

1963 · Original Music Composer

Hud

1963 · Original Music Composer

A Girl Named Tamiko

1962 · Original Music Composer

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962 · Original Music Composer

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962 · Original Music Composer

Walk on the Wild Side

1962 · Original Music Composer, Conductor, Songs

The Comancheros

1961 · Original Music Composer

Summer and Smoke

1961 · Original Music Composer

The Young Doctors

1961 · Original Music Composer

By Love Possessed

1961 · Music

Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

1961 · Music

2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

1961 · Original Music Composer

The Magnificent Seven

1960 · Original Music Composer

From the Terrace

1960 · Original Music Composer

The Rat Race

1960 · Original Music Composer

The Fabulous Fifties

1960 · Original Music Composer

An Introduction to Feedback

1960 · Music

The Story on Page One

1959 · Original Music Composer

The Miracle

1959 · Original Music Composer

Some Came Running

1958 · Original Music Composer

The Buccaneer

1958 · Original Music Composer

Anna Lucasta

1958 · Original Music Composer

God's Little Acre

1958 · Original Music Composer

Kings Go Forth

1958 · Original Music Composer

Saddle the Wind

1958 · Original Music Composer

Desire Under the Elms

1958 · Original Music Composer

The Tin Star

1957 · Original Music Composer

Toccata for Toy Trains

1957 · Music

Sweet Smell of Success

1957 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Men in War

1957 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Fear Strikes Out

1957 · Original Music Composer

Drango

1957 · Original Music Composer

The Information Machine

The Information Machine

1957 · Music

The Ten Commandments

1956 · Original Music Composer

The Naked Eye

1956 · Music

The Man with the Golden Arm

1955 · Original Music Composer

It's a Dog's Life

1955 · Original Music Composer

Storm Fear

1955 · Original Music Composer

The View from Pompey's Head

1955 · Original Music Composer

The Eternal Sea

1955 · Original Music Composer

House: After Five Years of Living

1955 · Music

Silent Raiders

1954 · Original Music Composer

Make Haste to Live

1954 · Original Music Composer

Miss Robin Crusoe

1953 · Original Music Composer

Cat-Women of the Moon

1953 · Original Music Composer

Robot Monster

1953 · Original Music Composer

The Oscars

1953 · Self

General Electric Theater

1953 · Original Music Composer

Never Wave at a WAC

1953 · Original Music Composer

A Communications Primer

1953 · Music

Battles of Chief Pontiac

1952 · Original Music Composer

Sudden Fear

1952 · Original Music Composer

Boots Malone

1952 · Music

Saturday's Hero

1951 · Music

Taking The Wheel

Taking The Wheel

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