Alex North
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- 1910-12-04 · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- 1991-09-08
Known for
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) — Original Music Composer
- Spartacus (1960) — Original Music Composer
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — Original Music Composer
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) — Original Music Composer
- Cleopatra (1963) — Original Music Composer
- The Misfits (1961) — Original Music Composer
- Prizzi's Honor (1985) — Original Music Composer
- The Children's Hour (1961) — Original Music Composer
- Dragonslayer (1981) — Original Music Composer
- The Bad Seed (1956) — Original Music Composer
- Viva Zapata! (1952) — Original Music Composer
- The Long, Hot Summer (1958) — Original Music Composer
- The Dead (1987) — Original Music Composer
- Death of a Salesman (1985) — Original Music Composer
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) — Original Music Composer
- Cheyenne Autumn (1964) — Original Music Composer