John Barry

John Barry

  • Birthday: 1933-11-03
  • Deathday: 2011-01-30
  • Place of birth: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

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

Production

The L-Shaped Room

1962

As Compositor

Dances with Wolves

1990

As Original Music Composer

Out of Africa

1985

As Original Music Composer

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

As Original Music Composer

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

As Original Music Composer

Thunderball

1965

As Original Music Composer

You Only Live Twice

1967

As Original Music Composer

From Russia with Love

1963

As Original Music Composer

Goldfinger

1964

As Original Music Composer

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974

As Original Music Composer

A View to a Kill

1985

As Original Music Composer

Octopussy

1983

As Original Music Composer

Moonraker

1979

As Original Music Composer

The Living Daylights

1987

As Original Music Composer

Playing by Heart

1998

As Original Music Composer

Peggy Sue Got Married

1986

As Original Music Composer

Swept from the Sea

1998

As Original Music Composer

The Cotton Club

1984

As Original Music Composer

The Specialist

1994

As Original Music Composer

Chaplin

1992

As Original Music Composer

Enigma

2001

As Original Music Composer

The Scarlet Letter

1995

As Original Music Composer

Midnight Cowboy

1969

As Original Music Composer

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1964

As Original Music Composer

Frances

1982

As Original Music Composer

Howard the Duck

1986

As Original Music Composer

King Kong

1976

As Original Music Composer

Robin and Marian

1976

As Original Music Composer

Indecent Proposal

1993

As Original Music Composer

The Day of the Locust

1975

As Original Music Composer

A Killing Affair

1985

As Original Music Composer

The Chase

1966

As Original Music Composer

Mercury Rising

1998

As Original Music Composer

Jagged Edge

1985

As Original Music Composer

The Black Hole

1979

As Original Music Composer

Body Heat

1981

As Music

Zulu

1964

As Original Music Composer

Never Let Go

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Last Valley

1971

As Original Music Composer

Somewhere in Time

1980

As Original Music Composer

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

As Original Music Composer

Dutchman

1966

As Original Music Composer

The Whisperers

1967

As Original Music Composer

Monte Walsh

1970

As Original Music Composer

The Glass Menagerie

1973

As Original Music Composer

Boom!

1968

As Original Music Composer

Follow Me!

1972

As Original Music Composer

They Might Be Giants

1971

As Music

The Betsy

1978

As Music

Beat Girl

1960

As Music

Until September

1984

As Music

Touched by Love

1980

As Original Music Composer

Love Among the Ruins

1975

As Original Music Composer

The Amorous Prawn

1962

As Original Music Composer

The White Buffalo

1977

As Original Music Composer

Game of Death

1978

As Original Music Composer

Murder by Phone

1982

As Original Music Composer

First Love

1977

As Original Music Composer

Starcrash

1978

As Music

The Party's Over

1965

As Music

Masquerade

1988

As Original Music Composer

The Lion in Winter

1968

As Original Music Composer

Hearts of Fire

1987

As Original Music Composer

The Deep

1977

As Original Music Composer

The Ipcress File

1965

As Original Music Composer

Mike's Murder

1984

As Original Music Composer

Starcrash

1978

As Conductor

Walkabout

1971

As Music

Inside Moves

1980

As Original Music Composer

King Rat

1965

As Original Music Composer

Midnight Cowboy

1969

As Music Supervisor

Walkabout

1971

As Conductor

The Knack... and How to Get It

1965

As Original Music Composer

Petulia

1968

As Original Music Composer

Raise the Titanic

1980

As Original Music Composer

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

As Original Music Composer

The Appointment

1969

As Music

The Tamarind Seed

1974

As Music

The Wrong Box

1966

As Music

Mercury Rising

1998

As Conductor

King Rat

1965

As Conductor

Svengali

1983

As Original Music Composer

Hammett

1982

As Original Music Composer

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1972

As Original Music Composer

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981

As Original Music Composer

Hanover Street

1979

As Original Music Composer

Out of Africa

1985

As Conductor

Love Among the Ruins

1975

As Conductor

Game of Death Redux

2019

As Original Music Composer

The Ipcress File

1965

As Conductor

Ruby Cairo

1992

As Original Music Composer

Four in the Morning

1965

As Original Music Composer

Four in the Morning

1965

As Conductor

From Russia with Love

1963

As Conductor

Thunderball

1965

As Conductor

Goldfinger

1964

As Conductor

Dr. No

1962

As Music Arranger

Deadfall

1968

As Original Music Composer

Playing by Heart

1998

As Conductor

Playing by Heart

1998

As Orchestrator

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1964

As Conductor

Mister Moses

1965

As Music

The Golden Seal

1983

As Music

Night Games

1980

As Music

A Doll's House

1973

As Original Music Composer

Willa

1979

As Original Music Composer

The Dove

1974

As Original Music Composer

High Road to China

1983

As Original Music Composer

Boy and Bicycle

1965

As Original Music Composer

My Life

1993

As Music

Sophia Loren in Rome

1964

As Music

Frances

1982

As Conductor

Born Free

1966

As Original Music Composer

The Corn Is Green

1979

As Music

The Wrong Box

1966

As Music Arranger

The Wrong Box

1966

As Conductor

The Gathering

1977

As Music

Born Free

1966

As Songs

Man in the Middle

1964

As Music

A Jolly Bad Fellow

1964

As Music

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