Vangelis

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-03-29

Deathday 2022-05-17 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Volos, Thessaly, Greece

Also Known As Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou

Vangelis

Biography

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, best known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and composing scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).

Known For

Sound

2023
2022
Nuclear Now

as Original Music Composer

2007
El Greco

as Original Music Composer

2004
Alexander

as Original Music Composer

2004
Alexander

as Music Arranger

1992
1492: Conquest of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1992
Bitter Moon

as Original Music Composer

1992
The Plague

as Original Music Composer

1991
Starwatcher

as Music

1991
Black Ink

as Music

1989
Francesco

as Original Music Composer

1988
Nosferatu in Venice

as Original Music Composer

1985
Catwalk

as Music

1984
The Bounty

as Original Music Composer

1983
Antarctica

as Original Music Composer

1982
Blade Runner

as Original Music Composer

1982
Missing

as Original Music Composer

1981
Chariots of Fire

as Original Music Composer

1981
1980
1980
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

as Music Director

1978
1976
1976
1976
1971
Frenzy

as Original Music Composer

1970
Sex Power

as Original Music Composer

1967
Vortex

as Original Music Composer

1966

Editor

1978