Elmer Bernstein

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-04-04

Deathday 2004-08-18 (82 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Elmer Bernstien

Elmer Bernstein

Biography

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.

Known For

Sound

2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

as Original Music Composer

2002
Far from Heaven

as Original Music Composer

2000
Keeping the Faith

as Original Music Composer

2000
Chinese Coffee

as Original Music Composer

2000
A Storm in Summer

as Music Producer

1999
Wild Wild West

as Original Music Composer

1999
Bringing Out the Dead

as Original Music Composer

1999
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

as Original Music Composer

1999
The Deep End of the Ocean

as Original Music Composer

1999
1998
Twilight

as Original Music Composer

1998
1997
The Rainmaker

as Original Music Composer

1997
Buddy

as Original Music Composer

1997
Hoodlum

as Original Music Composer

1996
Bulletproof

as Original Music Composer

1995
Devil in a Blue Dress

as Original Music Composer

1995
Frankie Starlight

as Original Music Composer

1995
Canadian Bacon

as Original Music Composer

1995
Roommates

as Conductor

1995
Roommates

as Original Music Composer

1995
Search and Destroy

as Original Music Composer

1993
Mad Dog and Glory

as Original Music Composer

1993
The Age of Innocence

as Original Music Composer

1993
The Good Son

as Original Music Composer

1993
Lost in Yonkers

as Original Music Composer

1993
Lost in Yonkers

as Conductor

1993
The Cemetery Club

as Original Music Composer

1993
Fallen Angels

as Main Title Theme Composer

1992
The Babe

as Original Music Composer

1991
Oscar

as Original Music Composer

1991
Cape Fear

as Conductor

1991
Cape Fear

as Original Music Composer

1991
A Rage in Harlem

as Original Music Composer

1991
Rambling Rose

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Grifters

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Field

as Original Music Composer

1989
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

as Original Music Composer

1989
Slipstream

as Original Music Composer

1988
The Good Mother

as Original Music Composer

1988
Da

as Music

1988
Funny Farm

as Original Music Composer

1987
Leonard Part 6

as Original Music Composer

1987
1987
Amazing Grace and Chuck

as Original Music Composer

1986
¡Three Amigos!

as Original Music Composer

1986
Legal Eagles

as Original Music Composer

1986
Legal Eagles

as Conductor

1985
The Black Cauldron

as Original Music Composer

1985
Spies Like Us

as Original Music Composer

1985
Prince Jack

as Music

1984
Ghostbusters

as Original Music Composer

1983
Trading Places

as Original Music Composer

1983
1983
Class

as Original Music Composer

1982
Airplane II: The Sequel

as Original Music Composer

1982
Five Days One Summer

as Original Music Composer

1982
Genocide

as Conductor

1982
Genocide

as Music

1981
An American Werewolf in London

as Original Music Composer

1981
Stripes

as Original Music Composer

1981
Heavy Metal

as Original Music Composer

1981
The Chosen

as Original Music Composer

1981
Honky Tonk Freeway

as Original Music Composer

1981
1981
Going Ape!

as Original Music Composer

1980
The Blues Brothers

as Original Music Composer

1980
Airplane!

as Original Music Composer

1980
This Year's Blonde

as Original Music Composer

1980
Saturn 3

as Original Music Composer

1979
The Great Santini

as Original Music Composer

1979
Zulu Dawn

as Original Music Composer

1979
Charleston

as Music

1979
Meatballs

as Original Music Composer

1978
Cezanne

as Music

1978
Bloodbrothers

as Original Music Composer

1978
Animal House

as Original Music Composer

1978
Little Women

as Music

1977
Powers of Ten

as Music

1977
Billy Jack Goes to Washington

as Original Music Composer

1976
From Noon Till Three

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Shootist

as Original Music Composer

1975
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

as Original Music Composer

1975
Report to the Commissioner

as Original Music Composer

1974
Gold

as Original Music Composer

1974
McQ

as Original Music Composer

1974
Nightmare Honeymoon

as Original Music Composer

1974
Gold

as Music

1974
1974
The Trial of Billy Jack

as Original Music Composer

1973
Cahill: United States Marshal

as Original Music Composer

1973
1973
Incident on a Dark Street

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Magnificent Seven Ride!

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Amazing Mr. Blunden

as Original Music Composer

1972
The Rookies

as Music

1971
Big Jake

as Original Music Composer

1971
1971
See No Evil

as Original Music Composer

1971
Doctors' Wives

as Original Music Composer

1971
Appointment With Destiny

as Original Music Composer

1970
Cannon for Cordoba

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Liberation of L.B. Jones

as Original Music Composer

1970
A Walk in the Spring Rain

as Original Music Composer

1969
Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Original Music Composer

1969
True Grit

as Original Music Composer

1969
Midas Run

as Original Music Composer

1969
Tops

as Music

1969
Where's Jack?

as Music

1969
The Gypsy Moths

as Original Music Composer

1968
The Scalphunters

as Original Music Composer

1968
1968
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

as Original Music Composer

1967
Thoroughly Modern Millie

as Original Music Composer

1966
Cast a Giant Shadow

as Original Music Composer

1966
Return of the Seven

as Original Music Composer

1966
The Silencers

as Original Music Composer

1966
Hawaii

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Sons of Katie Elder

as Original Music Composer

1965
1965
Baby, the Rain Must Fall

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Bold Men

as Music Supervisor

1965
7 Women

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Reward

as Original Music Composer

1965
1964
Hollywood and the Stars

as Music Arranger

1964
Hollywood and the Stars

as Theme Song Performance

1964
The Carpetbaggers

as Original Music Composer

1964
Four Days In November

as Original Music Composer

1964
The World of Henry Orient

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Great Escape

as Original Music Composer

1963
Hud

as Original Music Composer

1963
Love with the Proper Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1963
The Caretakers

as Original Music Composer

1963
Kings of the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1963
Rampage

as Music

1962
To Kill a Mockingbird

as Original Music Composer

1962
Birdman of Alcatraz

as Original Music Composer

1962
Walk on the Wild Side

as Original Music Composer

1962
A Girl Named Tamiko

as Original Music Composer

1962
1961
The Comancheros

as Original Music Composer

1961
Summer and Smoke

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Young Doctors

as Original Music Composer

1961
1960
The Magnificent Seven

as Original Music Composer

1960
The Fabulous Fifties

as Original Music Composer

1960
From the Terrace

as Original Music Composer

1960
The Rat Race

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Story on Page One

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Miracle

as Original Music Composer

1958
Desire Under the Elms

as Original Music Composer

1958
The Buccaneer

as Original Music Composer

1958
God's Little Acre

as Original Music Composer

1958
Saddle the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1958
Anna Lucasta

as Original Music Composer

1958
Kings Go Forth

as Original Music Composer

1958
Some Came Running

as Original Music Composer

1957
Sweet Smell of Success

as Original Music Composer

1957
The Tin Star

as Original Music Composer

1957
Drango

as Original Music Composer

1957
Men in War

as Original Music Composer

1957
Men in War

as Conductor

1957
Fear Strikes Out

as Original Music Composer

1956
1956
The Naked Eye

as Music

1956
The Ten Commandments

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Man with the Golden Arm

as Original Music Composer

1955
Storm Fear

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Eternal Sea

as Original Music Composer

1955
The View from Pompey's Head

as Original Music Composer

1955
It's a Dog's Life

as Original Music Composer

1954
Make Haste to Live

as Original Music Composer

1954
Silent Raiders

as Original Music Composer

1953
Cat-Women of the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1953
Robot Monster

as Original Music Composer

1953
Never Wave at a WAC

as Original Music Composer

1953
Miss Robin Crusoe

as Original Music Composer

1953
General Electric Theater

as Original Music Composer

1952
Battles of Chief Pontiac

as Original Music Composer

1952
Sudden Fear

as Original Music Composer

1952
Boots Malone

as Music

1951