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Alex North
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Biography
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.
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Spartacus
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Long, Hot Summer
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Good Morning, Vietnam
Original Music Composer
Man with the Gun
Original Music Composer
Willard
Original Music Composer
Bite the Bullet
Original Music Composer
The Devil's Brigade
Original Music Composer
Chains
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Writer's Fight
From Spartacus to the shadows of the blacklist, a chain of films that honours the courage of Hollywood's silenced screenwriters.
8 films
Five Essential Summer Films
A curated selection of films that capture summer's heat, languor, and menace, sidestepping the usual suspects for more surprising, evocative choices.
5 films
The Stage on Screen: A Theatrical Journey
From the claustrophobic confines of a cabin to the sprawling sets of a Shakespearean epic, these eight films celebrate the art of theatre translated to cinema.
7 films
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