Alex North
Born: 4th December 1910, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: 8th September 1991, Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Alex North 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 received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.
He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained. The song became a standard and one of the most recorded of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.
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Gabriel Yared, Trevor Jones, Lynda Cochrane (piano), Alex North, Nino Rota, Stephen Warbeck, Sergey Rachmaninov (piano), John Williams (guitar), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Joel McNeely, John Barry, John Debney, Michael Nyman, James Horner, Richard Kaufman, Cliff Eidelman, Frederic Talgorn
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