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John Barry

Birthday: 1933-11-03
Died: 2011-01-30
Birthplace: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK


John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter; Chaplin; The Cotton Club; The Tamarind Seed; Mary, Queen of Scots; Game of Death; and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years. Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black. In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia page John Barry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Deadfall
Character: Orchestra Conductor
The Sound of 007
Character: Self (archive footage)

6.5 Special
Character: Himself
Everything or Nothing
Character: Self (archive footage)
Best Ever Bond
Character: Self

Inside 'Dr. No'
Character: Self

Harry Saltzman: Showman
Character: Self

Lights, Action, Music
Character: Self
A Song of Africa
Character: Self


Dances with Wolves
Job: Original Music Composer

Out of Africa
Job: Original Music Composer
Peggy Sue Got Married
Job: Original Music Composer
From Russia with Love
Job: Original Music Composer

Goldfinger
Job: Original Music Composer
Thunderball
Job: Original Music Composer
You Only Live Twice
Job: Original Music Composer

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Job: Original Music Composer
Diamonds Are Forever
Job: Original Music Composer
The Man with the Golden Gun
Job: Original Music Composer

Moonraker
Job: Original Music Composer
Octopussy
Job: Original Music Composer
A View to a Kill
Job: Original Music Composer

The Living Daylights
Job: Original Music Composer
Playing by Heart
Job: Original Music Composer
The Specialist
Job: Original Music Composer

King Kong
Job: Original Music Composer
Swept from the Sea
Job: Original Music Composer
Chaplin
Job: Original Music Composer

Robin and Marian
Job: Original Music Composer
Enigma
Job: Original Music Composer
The Scarlet Letter
Job: Original Music Composer

Indecent Proposal
Job: Original Music Composer
The Cotton Club
Job: Original Music Composer
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Job: Original Music Composer

Midnight Cowboy
Job: Original Music Composer
A Killing Affair
Job: Original Music Composer
Frances
Job: Original Music Composer

Howard the Duck
Job: Original Music Composer
The Day of the Locust
Job: Original Music Composer
The Chase
Job: Original Music Composer

Mercury Rising
Job: Original Music Composer
Jagged Edge
Job: Original Music Composer
The Black Hole
Job: Original Music Composer

Zulu
Job: Original Music Composer
Never Let Go
Job: Original Music Composer
The Last Valley
Job: Original Music Composer

Somewhere in Time
Job: Original Music Composer
Mary, Queen of Scots
Job: Original Music Composer
Goldfinger
Job: Conductor

Dr. No
Job: Music Arranger
The Dove
Job: Original Music Composer
Dutchman
Job: Original Music Composer

From Russia with Love
Job: Conductor
Thunderball
Job: Conductor
Deadfall
Job: Original Music Composer

Monte Walsh
Job: Original Music Composer
The Whisperers
Job: Original Music Composer
The Glass Menagerie
Job: Original Music Composer

Boom!
Job: Original Music Composer
High Road to China
Job: Original Music Composer
Playing by Heart
Job: Conductor

Playing by Heart
Job: Orchestrator

The Golden Seal
Job: Music
Follow Me!
Job: Original Music Composer

Frances
Job: Conductor
Born Free
Job: Songs

Born Free
Job: Original Music Composer
Touched by Love
Job: Original Music Composer
A Doll's House
Job: Original Music Composer

Love Among the Ruins
Job: Original Music Composer
The Amorous Prawn
Job: Original Music Composer
The White Buffalo
Job: Original Music Composer

Game of Death
Job: Original Music Composer
Murder by Phone
Job: Original Music Composer

Willa
Job: Original Music Composer
First Love
Job: Original Music Composer
Masquerade
Job: Original Music Composer

The Lion in Winter
Job: Original Music Composer
Hearts of Fire
Job: Original Music Composer
The Deep
Job: Original Music Composer

The Ipcress File
Job: Original Music Composer
Mike's Murder
Job: Original Music Composer
Starcrash
Job: Conductor

Walkabout
Job: Music
The Wrong Box
Job: Music Arranger
The Wrong Box
Job: Conductor

Inside Moves
Job: Original Music Composer
King Rat
Job: Original Music Composer
Midnight Cowboy
Job: Music Supervisor

Man in the Middle
Job: Original Music Composer
Walkabout
Job: Conductor

Walkabout
Job: Original Music Composer

Cry, the Beloved Country
Job: Original Music Composer
My Life
Job: Original Music Composer
Until September
Job: Original Music Composer

Body Heat
Job: Original Music Composer
Night Games
Job: Original Music Composer
The Corn Is Green
Job: Original Music Composer

Starcrash
Job: Original Music Composer
The Betsy
Job: Original Music Composer
The Tamarind Seed
Job: Original Music Composer

They Might Be Giants
Job: Original Music Composer
The Appointment
Job: Original Music Composer
The Wrong Box
Job: Original Music Composer

Mister Moses
Job: Original Music Composer
The Party's Over
Job: Original Music Composer
The Knack... and How to Get It
Job: Original Music Composer

Raise the Titanic
Job: Original Music Composer
Petulia
Job: Original Music Composer
The Quiller Memorandum
Job: Original Music Composer

The L-Shaped Room
Job: Original Music Composer
The Cool Mikado
Job: Music Arranger
Mercury Rising
Job: Conductor

King Rat
Job: Conductor
Svengali
Job: Original Music Composer
Hammett
Job: Original Music Composer

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Job: Original Music Composer
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Job: Original Music Composer
Hanover Street
Job: Original Music Composer

Love Among the Ruins
Job: Conductor
Out of Africa
Job: Conductor
Game of Death Redux
Job: Original Music Composer

The Ipcress File
Job: Conductor
Ruby Cairo
Job: Original Music Composer
Four in the Morning
Job: Original Music Composer

Four in the Morning
Job: Conductor
Mix Me a Person
Job: Original Music Composer

The Final Game of Death
Job: Original Music Composer
Mission: Monte Carlo
Job: Theme Song Performance
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Job: Original Music Composer

Boy and Bicycle
Job: Original Music Composer
Beat Girl
Job: Original Music Composer
A Jolly Bad Fellow
Job: Original Music Composer

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Job: Original Music Composer
The War Between the Tates
Job: Original Music Composer
The Gathering
Job: Original Music Composer