Sound
John Barry
EN, FR, TR, CN cinema · 137 credits
Born
3 November 1933
Died
30 January 2011 (aged 77)
Birthplace
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter; Chaplin; The Cotton Club; The Tamarind Seed; Mary, Queen of Scots; Game of Death; and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years. Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black. In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia page John Barry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
The Final Game of Death
Original Music Composer
The Sound of 007
as Self (archive footage)
Everything or Nothing
as Self (archive footage)
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
as Self, Music
Best Ever Bond
as Self
Enigma
Original Music Composer
Inside 'Dr. No'
as Self
A Song of Africa
as Self
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
as Self, Music
Playing by Heart
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
Swept from the Sea
Original Music Composer
Mercury Rising
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Scarlet Letter
Original Music Composer
Cry, the Beloved Country
Original Music Composer
The Specialist
Original Music Composer
Indecent Proposal
Original Music Composer
My Life
Original Music Composer
Chaplin
Original Music Composer
Ruby Cairo
Original Music Composer
Dances with Wolves
Original Music Composer
Masquerade
Original Music Composer
The Living Daylights
as Orchestra Conductor (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Hearts of Fire
Original Music Composer
Peggy Sue Got Married
Original Music Composer
Howard the Duck
Original Music Composer
Out of Africa
Original Music Composer, Conductor
A View to a Kill
Original Music Composer
A Killing Affair
Original Music Composer
Jagged Edge
Original Music Composer
The Cotton Club
Original Music Composer
Mike's Murder
Original Music Composer
Until September
Original Music Composer
Octopussy
Original Music Composer
High Road to China
Original Music Composer
Svengali
Original Music Composer
The Golden Seal
Original Music Composer
Frances
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Murder by Phone
Original Music Composer
Hammett
Original Music Composer
Body Heat
Original Music Composer
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Original Music Composer
Somewhere in Time
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Touched by Love
Original Music Composer
Inside Moves
Original Music Composer
Night Games
Original Music Composer
Raise the Titanic
Original Music Composer
Moonraker
Original Music Composer
The Black Hole
Original Music Composer
Willa
Original Music Composer
The Corn Is Green
Original Music Composer
Hanover Street
Original Music Composer
Game of Death
Original Music Composer
Starcrash
Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Betsy
Original Music Composer
The White Buffalo
Original Music Composer
First Love
Original Music Composer
The Deep
Original Music Composer
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Original Music Composer
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Original Music Composer
The War Between the Tates
Original Music Composer
The Gathering
Original Music Composer
King Kong
Original Music Composer
Robin and Marian
Original Music Composer
Love Among the Ruins
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Day of the Locust
Original Music Composer
The Man with the Golden Gun
Original Music Composer
The Dove
Original Music Composer
The Tamarind Seed
Original Music Composer
Mission: Monte Carlo
Theme Song Performance
The Glass Menagerie
Original Music Composer
A Doll's House
Original Music Composer
Follow Me!
Original Music Composer
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Songs, Original Music Composer
Diamonds Are Forever
Original Music Composer
The Last Valley
Original Music Composer
Mary, Queen of Scots
Original Music Composer
Walkabout
Music, Conductor, Original Music Composer
They Might Be Giants
Original Music Composer
Murphy's War
Music Supervisor
Monte Walsh
Original Music Composer
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Original Music Composer
Midnight Cowboy
Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor
The Appointment
Original Music Composer
Deadfall
as Orchestra Conductor, Original Music Composer
Boom!
Original Music Composer
The Lion in Winter
Original Music Composer
Petulia
Original Music Composer
You Only Live Twice
Original Music Composer
The Whisperers
Original Music Composer
The Chase
Original Music Composer
Dutchman
Original Music Composer
The Quiller Memorandum
Songs, Original Music Composer
Born Free
Songs, Original Music Composer
The Wrong Box
Music Arranger, Conductor, Original Music Composer
Thunderball
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Ipcress File
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
King Rat
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Mister Moses
Original Music Composer
The Party's Over
Original Music Composer
The Knack... and How to Get It
Original Music Composer
Four in the Morning
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Boy and Bicycle
Original Music Composer
Goldfinger
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Zulu
Original Music Composer
Man in the Middle
Original Music Composer
A Jolly Bad Fellow
Original Music Composer
Sophia Loren in Rome
Original Music Composer
From Russia with Love
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Cool Mikado
Music Arranger
Dr. No
Music Arranger
The Amorous Prawn
Original Music Composer
The L-Shaped Room
Original Music Composer
Mix Me a Person
Original Music Composer
Never Let Go
Original Music Composer
Beat Girl
Original Music Composer
6.5 Special
as Himself