List of compositions by Elmer Bernstein

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Elmer Bernstein discography
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Compilation albums174
Singles4
Soundtrack albums245

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

Contents

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

YearTitleDirector
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

YearTitleDirectorLatest 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

YearTitleDirectorLatest 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

YearTitleDirector
1980 Airplane!
1980 The Blues Brothers John Landis
1980 Saturn 3
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
1981 Stripes
1982 Genocide
1982 Five Days One Summer
1982Our House
1982 Airplane II: The Sequel
1983 Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983 Class
1983 Trading Places
1983 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1984 Prince Jack
1984Mary Ward
1984 Bolero
1984 Ghostbusters
1985 The Black Cauldron
1985 Spies Like Us
1985 The Journey of Natty Gann rejected score, replaced by James Horner
1986 ¡Three Amigos!
1986 Legal Eagles
1987 Leonard Part 6
1987 Amazing Grace and Chuck
1988 Funny Farm
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

1990s

YearTitleDirector
1990 The Field Jim Sheridan
1990 The Grifters Stephen Frears
1991 Cape Fear Martin Scorsese
1991 Rambling Rose
1991 A Rage in Harlem
1991 Oscar
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
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
1997 Buddy
1997 The Rainmaker Francis Ford Coppola
1997 Hoodlum
1998 Twilight Robert Benton
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
1999 Wild Wild West
1999 The Deep End of the Ocean

2000s

YearTitleDirectorNotes
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

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Theatre

Source: Playbill [2]

Concert works

Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography [3]

Hit records

Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Elmer Bernstein". Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. "Elmer Bernstein". Playbill.com. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Elmer Bernstein - Credits". Elmer Bernstein. Retrieved 13 February 2022.