About Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies.
Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.
In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.
Movie Credits
Elmer Bernstein has appeared in 10 movies.
These include
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence',
Making 'Taxi Driver',
The Bible According to Hollywood,
Frank Sinatra Memorial,
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann,
Fearful Symmetry,
The Making of 'Cape Fear',
From Noon Till Three,
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' and
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion.
TV Credits
Elmer Bernstein has appeared in 1 show.
These include
The Oscars.
Production Credits
Sound
Credited for Original Music Composer in 147 shows -
Sudden Fear,
Battles of Chief Pontiac,
Never Wave at a WAC,
General Electric Theater,
Robot Monster,
Cat-Women of the Moon,
Miss Robin Crusoe,
Make Haste to Live,
Silent Raiders,
The Eternal Sea,
The View from Pompey's Head,
Storm Fear,
It's a Dog's Life,
The Man with the Golden Arm,
The Ten Commandments,
Drango,
Fear Strikes Out,
Men in War,
Sweet Smell of Success,
The Tin Star,
Desire Under the Elms,
Saddle the Wind,
Kings Go Forth,
God's Little Acre,
Anna Lucasta,
The Buccaneer,
Some Came Running,
The Miracle,
The Story on Page One,
The Fabulous Fifties,
The Rat Race,
From the Terrace,
The Magnificent Seven,
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers,
The Young Doctors,
Summer and Smoke,
The Comancheros,
Walk on the Wild Side,
Birdman of Alcatraz,
To Kill a Mockingbird,
A Girl Named Tamiko,
Hud,
The Great Escape,
The Caretakers,
Kings of the Sun,
Love with the Proper Stranger,
The World of Henry Orient,
The Carpetbaggers,
Four Days In November,
Baby the Rain Must Fall,
The Sons of Katie Elder,
The Reward,
7 Women,
The Silencers,
Cast a Giant Shadow,
Hawaii,
Return of the Seven,
Thoroughly Modern Millie,
The Scalphunters,
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!,
Midas Run,
True Grit,
Guns of the Magnificent Seven,
The Gypsy Moths,
The Liberation of L.B. Jones,
A Walk in the Spring Rain,
Cannon for Cordoba,
Doctors' Wives,
Big Jake,
See No Evil,
Appointment With Destiny,
The Magnificent Seven Ride!,
The Amazing Mr. Blunden,
Incident on a Dark Street,
Cahill: United States Marshal,
McQ,
Gold,
Nightmare Honeymoon,
The Trial of Billy Jack,
Report to the Commissioner,
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects,
The Shootist,
From Noon Till Three,
Billy Jack Goes to Washington,
Animal House,
Bloodbrothers,
Zulu Dawn,
Meatballs,
The Great Santini,
Saturn 3,
This Year's Blonde,
The Blues Brothers,
Airplane!,
Going Ape!,
Stripes,
Heavy Metal,
The Chosen,
An American Werewolf in London,
Honky Tonk Freeway,
Five Days One Summer,
Airplane II: The Sequel,
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone,
Trading Places,
Class,
Ghostbusters,
The Black Cauldron,
Spies Like Us,
Legal Eagles,
¡Three Amigos!,
Amazing Grace and Chuck,
Leonard Part 6,
Funny Farm,
The Good Mother,
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown,
Slipstream,
The Grifters,
The Field,
Oscar,
A Rage in Harlem,
Rambling Rose,
Cape Fear,
The Babe,
The Cemetery Club,
Mad Dog and Glory,
Lost in Yonkers,
The Age of Innocence,
The Good Son,
Roommates,
Search and Destroy,
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies,
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies,
Canadian Bacon,
Devil in a Blue Dress,
Frankie Starlight,
Bulletproof,
Buddy,
Hoodlum,
The Rainmaker,
Twilight,
The Deep End of the Ocean,
Wild Wild West,
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,
Bringing Out the Dead,
Keeping the Faith,
Chinese Coffee,
Far from Heaven and
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic.
Credited for Music in 52 shows -
Taking The Wheel,
Saturday's Hero,
Boots Malone,
A Communications Primer,
House: After Five Years of Living,
Eames Lounge Chair,
The Naked Eye,
Toccata for Toy Trains,
The Information Machine,
An Introduction to Feedback,
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem,
By Love Possessed,
Rampage,
The Making of the President 1960,
IBM at the Fair,
The Hallelujah Trail,
The Smithsonian Institution,
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe,
A Computer Glossary,
Tops,
Where's Jack?,
The Bridge at Remagen,
The Tell-Tale Heart,
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger,
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age,
Computer Perspective,
The Rookies,
Nicholas Copernicus,
Men of the Dragon,
Gold,
Report to the Commissioner,
The Old Curiosity Shop,
Serpico: The Deadly Game,
The Incredible Sarah,
Powers of Ten,
The 3,000 Mile Chase,
Calypso's Search for the Britannic,
Cezanne,
Animal House,
Little Women,
Charleston,
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones,
Honky Tonk Freeway,
Genocide,
Michael Jackson's Thriller,
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie,
Prince Jack,
Amazing Grace and Chuck,
Da,
Roommates,
Puppies for Sale and
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'.
Credited for Conductor in 13 shows -
Men in War,
Sweet Smell of Success,
Walk on the Wild Side,
Baby the Rain Must Fall,
Guns of the Magnificent Seven,
The Magnificent Seven Ride!,
Genocide,
Legal Eagles,
Amazing Grace and Chuck,
Cape Fear,
Lost in Yonkers,
Roommates and
Bringing Out the Dead.
Credited for Main Title Theme Composer in 1 show -
Fallen Angels.
