Bernard Herrmann

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1911-06-29

Deathday 1975-12-24 (64 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Benny, Bernard Hermann

Bernard Herrmann

Biography

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.

Known For

Sound

2023
Creepover

as Music

2020
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes

as Original Music Composer

2008
Back to Room 666

as Original Music Composer

2008
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

as Main Title Theme Composer

2007
1998
Psycho

as Original Music Composer

1993
The Egg

as Music

1991
Cape Fear

as Original Music Composer

1983
Cada ver es...

as Original Music Composer

1979
1978
It Lives Again

as Original Music Composer

1976
Taxi Driver

as Original Music Composer

1976
Obsession

as Original Music Composer

1976
Taxi Driver

as Music Director

1974
It's Alive

as Original Music Composer

1974
It's Alive

as Orchestrator

1974
It's Alive

as Conductor

1973
Sisters

as Original Music Composer

1972
Endless Night

as Original Music Composer

1971
The Road Builder

as Original Music Composer

1969
Obsessions

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Bride Wore Black

as Original Music Composer

1968
Twisted Nerve

as Original Music Composer

1968
Companions in Nightmare

as Original Music Composer

1968
Death in the Afternoon

as Original Music Composer

1966
Fahrenheit 451

as Original Music Composer

1966
Fahrenheit 451

as Conductor

1965
Lost in Space

as Music

1964
Marnie

as Original Music Composer

1963
Jason and the Argonauts

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Birds

as Music Consultant

1963
1962
Cape Fear

as Original Music Composer

1962
Tender Is the Night

as Original Music Composer

1961
Mysterious Island

as Original Music Composer

1961
Mysterious Island

as Conductor

1960
Psycho

as Original Music Composer

1960
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

as Original Music Composer

1959
North by Northwest

as Original Music Composer

1959
Journey to the Center of the Earth

as Original Music Composer

1959
Blue Denim

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Twilight Zone

as Original Music Composer

1958
Vertigo

as Original Music Composer

1958
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

as Original Music Composer

1958
The Naked and the Dead

as Original Music Composer

1957
A Hatful of Rain

as Original Music Composer

1957
Have Gun, Will Travel

as Original Music Composer

1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Original Music Composer

1956
The Wrong Man

as Original Music Composer

1956
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Trouble with Harry

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Kentuckian

as Original Music Composer

1955
Prince of Players

as Original Music Composer

1954
Garden of Evil

as Original Music Composer

1954
1954
The Egyptian

as Original Music Composer

1953
King of the Khyber Rifles

as Original Music Composer

1953
White Witch Doctor

as Original Music Composer

1953
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Original Music Composer

1952
5 Fingers

as Original Music Composer

1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still

as Original Music Composer

1951
On Dangerous Ground

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Orchestrator

1946
Anna and the King of Siam

as Original Music Composer

1945
Hangover Square

as Original Music Composer

1943
Jane Eyre

as Original Music Composer

1942
The Magnificent Ambersons

as Original Music Composer

1941
Citizen Kane

as Original Music Composer

1941
Citizen Kane

as Conductor

1941
All That Money Can Buy

as Original Music Composer

1941

Actor

2004
20th Century Greats

as Self (archive footage)

1956
The Wrong Man

as Stork Club Piano Player (uncredited)

1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Conductor at Albert Hall

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Conductor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

1976
God Told Me To

as In Memory Of

1976
Taxi Driver

as Thanks

Writer

2000
Psycho Path

as Musical