About Bear McCreary
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind.
Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Movie Credits
Bear McCreary has appeared in 5 movies.
These include
The Making of The Walking Dead,
Raising Kratos,
Score: A Film Music Documentary,
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie and
The Babysitter: Killer Queen.
Production Credits
Bear McCreary has 87 production credits.
Sound
Credited for Original Music Composer in 49 shows -
Our Time,
Battlestar Galactica,
Rest Stop,
Battlestar Galactica: Razor,
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan,
Caprica,
The Walking Dead,
The Cape,
Chillerama,
Black Mirror,
Knights of Badassdom,
Da Vinci's Demons,
Defiance,
Europa Report,
Black Sails,
Outlander,
Everly,
Constantine,
Digging Up the Marrow,
The Forest,
The Boy,
10 Cloverfield Lane,
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot,
Colossal,
Revolt,
Rebel in the Rye,
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams,
Happy Death Day,
Unrest,
Hell Fest,
I Still See You,
Welcome Home,
Happy Death Day 2U,
Proven Innocent,
Godzilla: King of the Monsters,
Child's Play,
See,
Fantasy Island,
Snowpiercer,
Ava,
Freaky,
Masters of the Universe: Revelation,
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,
We Have a Ghost,
The Last Voyage of the Demeter,
Imaginary and
The 4:30 Movie.
Credited for Music in 28 shows -
Periphery, Texas,
Eureka,
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End,
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy,
Human Target,
Step Up 3D,
The Walking Dead,
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome,
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome,
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie,
Intruders,
Animal Crackers,
A Holliston Halloween,
The Cloverfield Paradox,
The Shadow Hours,
Tau,
Ryze: Call of Power,
Pooka!,
The Professor and the Madman,
Raising Kratos,
Rim of the World,
Eli,
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,
The Babysitter: Killer Queen,
Last Seen Alive and
Call Me Miss Cleo.
Credited for Orchestrator in 1 show -
Colossal.
Credited for Conductor in 1 show -
Unrest.
Directing
