List of compositions by Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein discography
Soundtrack albums	245
Compilation albums	174
Singles	4

This is a list of compositions by composer, orchestrator and conductor Elmer Bernstein.

He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including: Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), Ghostbusters (1984), The Black Cauldron (1985), The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and Far from Heaven (2002).

Filmography

Source: Turner Classic Movies ^[1]

1950s

Year	Title	Director
1951	Saturday's Hero
1952	Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952	Sudden Fear
1953	Cat-Women of the Moon
1953	Never Wave at a WAC
1953	Robot Monster
1954	Silent Raiders
1955	The Eternal Sea
1955	The Man with the Golden Arm
1955	The View from Pompey's Head
1956	The Ten Commandments
1957	Men in War
1957	Drango
1957	Fear Strikes Out
1957	Sweet Smell of Success
1957	The Tin Star
1958	Desire Under the Elms
1958	Kings Go Forth
1958	God's Little Acre
1958	The Buccaneer
1958	Some Came Running
1959	The Miracle

1960s

Year	Title	Director	Latest release
1960	The Story on Page One
1960	The Magnificent Seven	John Sturges	Quartet Records / QR508 / 2022
1960	The Rat Race
1960	From the Terrace
1961	The Comancheros
1961	By Love Possessed
1961	The Young Doctors
1961	Summer and Smoke
1962	Walk on the Wild Side	Edward Dmytryk	Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 2014
1962	Birdman of Alcatraz	John Frankenheimer
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 2014
1962	A Girl Named Tamiko	John Sturges
1963	Kings of the Sun
1963	The Caretakers
1963	The Great Escape
1963	Love with the Proper Stranger
1963	Hud
1964	The World of Henry Orient	George Roy Hill
1964	The Carpetbaggers	Edward Dmytryk	Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 2014
1965	The Sons of Katie Elder
1965	The Hallelujah Trail
1965	Baby the Rain Must Fall
1966	7 Women
1966	The Silencers
1966	Cast A Giant Shadow
1966	Hawaii
1966	Return of the Seven	Burt Kennedy	Quartet Records / QR508 / 2022
1967	Thoroughly Modern Millie
1968	The Scalphunters	Sydney Pollack	Quartet Records / QR500 / 2022
1968	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
1968	Powers of Ten
1969	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Paul Wendkos	Quartet Records / QR508 / 2022
1969	True Grit
1969	The Bridge at Remagen
1969	The Gypsy Moths

1970s

Year	Title	Director	Latest Release
1970	The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970	Cannon for Cordoba
1970	A Walk in the Spring Rain
1971	Big Jake
1971	Doctors' Wives
1971	See No Evil
1972	The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1973	Cahill U.S. Marshal
1973	The Magnificent Seven Ride!	George McCowan	Quartet Records / QR508 / 2022
1974	Gold
1974	McQ
1974	Nightmare Honeymoon
1974	The Trial of Billy Jack
1975	Mr Quilp
1975	Report to the Commissioner
1976	From Noon Till Three
1976	The Incredible Sarah
1976	The Shootist
1977	Billy Jack Goes to Washington
1977	Slap Shot
1977	Powers of Ten
1978	National Lampoon's Animal House
1978	Bloodbrothers
1978	Casey's Shadow	rejected score, replaced by Patrick Williams
1979	Zulu Dawn
1979	The Great Santini
1979	Meatballs

1980s

Year	Title	Director
1980	Airplane!	David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
1980	The Blues Brothers	John Landis
1980	Saturn 3	Stanley Donen
1981	Heavy Metal	Bernstein's first score for an animated film
1981	Honky Tonk Freeway
1981	Going Ape!
1981	The Chosen
1981	An American Werewolf in London	John Landis
1981	Stripes	Ivan Reitman
1982	Genocide
1982	Five Days One Summer
1982	Our House
1982	Airplane II: The Sequel	Ken Finkleman
1983	Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983	Class
1983	Trading Places	John Landis
1983	Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1984	Prince Jack
1984	Marie Ward
1984	Bolero
1984	Ghostbusters	Ivan Reitman
1985	The Black Cauldron
1985	Spies Like Us	John Landis
1985	The Journey of Natty Gann	rejected score, replaced by James Horner
1986	¡Three Amigos!	John Landis
1986	Legal Eagles	Ivan Reitman
1987	Leonard Part 6
1987	Amazing Grace and Chuck
1988	Funny Farm	George Roy Hill
1988	The Good Mother
1988	A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon	international version
1988	Da
1989	My Left Foot	Jim Sheridan
1989	Slipstream	Steven Lisberger

1990s

Year	Title	Director/Notes
1990	The Field	Jim Sheridan
1990	The Grifters	Stephen Frears
1991	Cape Fear	Martin Scorsese
1991	Rambling Rose	Martha Coolidge
1991	A Rage in Harlem
1991	Oscar	John Landis
1992	A River Runs Through It	rejected score, replaced by Mark Isham
1992	Innocent Blood	rejected score, replaced by Ira Newborn
1993	Mad Dog and Glory
1993	The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese
1993	Lost in Yonkers
1993	The Cemetery Club
1993	The Good Son	Joseph Ruben
1995	Roommates
1995	The Scarlet Letter	rejected score, replaced by John Barry
1995	Search and Destroy
1995	Canadian Bacon
1995	Devil in a Blue Dress
1995	Frankie Starlight
1996	Bulletproof
1996	I Love Trouble	rejected score, replaced by David Newman
1997	Buddy
1997	The Rainmaker	Francis Ford Coppola
1997	Hoodlum
1998	Twilight	Robert Benton
1999	Bringing Out the Dead	Francis Ford Coppola
1999	Wild Wild West	Barry Sonnenfeld
1999	The Deep End of the Ocean

2000s

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Keeping the Faith	Edward Norton
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
2002	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	rejected score, replaced by Howard Shore

Television films and series

Source: Turner Classic Movies ^[1]

1950s

• General Electric Theater (1958–59; 8 episodes)
• Johnny Staccato (1959–60; 23 episodes)
• Riverboat (1959–60; 18 episodes)

1960s

• The Beachcomber (1962; 13 episodes)
• The Dick Powell Show (1962; 1 episode)
• The DuPont Show of the Week (1962; 1 episode)
• The Making of the President, 1960 (1963; Television film)
• Hollywood and the Stars (1963–64; 7 episodes)
• National Geographic Specials (1966; 1 episode)
• ABC Stage 67 (1966–67; 2 episodes)
• The Big Valley (1967–68; 24 episodes)
• Julia (1968–70; 60 episodes)

1970s

• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1971–74; 20 episodes)
• Gunsmoke (1972; 1 episode)
• The Rookies (1972–74; 12 episodes)
• Ellery Queen (1975–76; 17 episodes)
• Serpico (1976; Pilot episode, two more episodes, and series' main theme)
• Captains and the Kings (1976; Miniseries – 8 episodes)
• Once An Eagle (1976–77; Miniseries – 7 episodes)
• Seventh Avenue (1977; Miniseries – 2 episodes)
• Little Women (1978; Miniseries – 2 episodes)
• The Chisholms (1979; Miniseries – 4 episodes)

1980s

• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980; Television film)
• This Year's Blonde (1980; Television film)
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1983; 1 episode)
• Gulag (1985; Television film)

1990s

• Murder in Mississippi (1990 Television film) (Rejected Score)
• The Bogie Man (1992; Television film)
• Fallen Angels (1993–95; 10 episodes)
• Rough Riders (1997; Miniseries – 2 episodes)
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999; Television film)

2000s

• Cecil B. De Mille – American Epic (2004; Television film)

Theatre

• Peter Pan (1954) – composer of incidental music
• How Now, Dow Jones (1967) – Composer – Tony co-nomination for Best Musical, Tony co-nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist
• Merlin (1982) – composer and incidental-music composer – Tony co-nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist

Source: Playbill ^[2]

Concert works

• Woodstock Fair (1948)
• Pennsylvania Overture (1958)
• Concertino for Ondes Martenot (1983)
• Songs of Love and Loathing (1990)
• Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (1999)
• Fanfare for the Hollywood Bowl (2004)

Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography ^[3]

Hit records

• The Man With the Golden Arm soundtrack (1956, no. 2 on Billboard charts)
• Walk on the Wild Side soundtrack (1962, no. 33)
• Walk on the Wild Side single (1962, Brook Benton, no. 43)
• Walk on the Wild Side single (1962, Jimmy Smith, no. 21)
• The Great Escape soundtrack (1963, no. 50)
• Love With the Proper Stranger single (1964, Jack Jones, no. 63)
• Baby, the Rain Must Fall single (1965, Glenn Yarbrough, no. 12)
• True Grit single (1969, Glen Campbell, no. 35)
• Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984, no. 6)

Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography ^[3]

References

1. "Elmer Bernstein". Turner Classic Movies . Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
2. "Elmer Bernstein". Playbill.com. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
3. "Elmer Bernstein - Credits". Elmer Bernstein. Retrieved 13 February 2022.