Bear McCreary

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1979-02-17 (45 years old)

Place of Birth Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Bear McCreary

Biography

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.

Known For

Sound

2024
Imaginary

as Original Music Composer

2024
The 4:30 Movie

as Original Music Composer

2024
Masters of the Universe: Revolution

as Original Music Composer

2024
Masters of the Universe: Revolution

as Main Title Theme Composer

2023
We Have a Ghost

as Original Music Composer

2023
Splinter

as Music Score Producer

2023
The Last Voyage of the Demeter

as Original Music Composer

2023
Percy Jackson and the Olympians

as Main Title Theme Composer

2022
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

as Original Music Composer

2022
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

as Music Score Producer

2022
2022
Last Seen Alive

as Original Music Composer

2022
2022
The Witcher: Blood Origin

as Original Music Composer

2022
Halo

as Main Title Theme Composer

2021
Masters of the Universe: Revelation

as Original Music Composer

2021
Masters of the Universe: Revelation

as Music Score Producer

2020
Fund the Bat

as Music

2020
The Babysitter: Killer Queen

as Original Music Composer

2020
Fantasy Island

as Original Music Composer

2020
Ava

as Original Music Composer

2020
Freaky

as Original Music Composer

2020
Snowpiercer

as Original Music Composer

2019
Eli

as Original Music Composer

2019
The Professor and the Madman

as Original Music Composer

2019
Rim of the World

as Original Music Composer

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Original Music Composer

2019
Happy Death Day 2U

as Original Music Composer

2019
Child's Play

as Original Music Composer

2019
2019
Proven Innocent

as Original Music Composer

2019
See

as Original Music Composer

2018
2018
The Cloverfield Paradox

as Original Music Composer

2018
Tau

as Original Music Composer

2018
Pooka!

as Original Music Composer

2018
Hell Fest

as Original Music Composer

2018
Welcome Home

as Original Music Composer

2018
I Still See You

as Original Music Composer

2017
Unrest

as Conductor

2017
Rebel in the Rye

as Original Music Composer

2017
Unrest

as Original Music Composer

2017
Colossal

as Original Music Composer

2017
Colossal

as Orchestrator

2017
Revolt

as Original Music Composer

2017
Happy Death Day

as Original Music Composer

2017
Victor Crowley

as Music Score Producer

2017
Animal Crackers

as Original Music Composer

2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

as Original Music Composer

2016
10 Cloverfield Lane

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Forest

as Original Music Composer

2016
The Boy

as Original Music Composer

2016
2015
Digging Up the Marrow

as Original Music Composer

2014
Everly

as Original Music Composer

2014
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

as Original Music Composer

2014
Outlander

as Original Music Composer

2014
Black Sails

as Original Music Composer

2014
Intruders

as Music

2014
Constantine

as Original Music Composer

2013
Europa Report

as Original Music Composer

2013
Knights of Badassdom

as Original Music Composer

2013
Defiance

as Original Music Composer

2013
Da Vinci's Demons

as Original Music Composer

2012
The Asset

as Original Music Composer

2012
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

as Original Music Composer

2011
Chillerama

as Original Music Composer

2011
The Cape

as Original Music Composer

2011
Black Mirror

as Original Music Composer

2010
Step Up 3D

as Original Music Composer

2010
Human Target

as Music

2010
The Walking Dead

as Original Music Composer

2010
The Walking Dead

as Music Producer

2010
Caprica

as Original Music Composer

2009
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

as Original Music Composer

2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

as Original Music Composer

2007
Battlestar Galactica: Razor

as Original Music Composer

2007
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

as Original Music Composer

2006
Rest Stop

as Original Music Composer

2006
Eureka

as Music

2004
Battlestar Galactica

as Original Music Composer

2002

Director

2011
Chillerama

as Director