Sound
John Debney
EN, NO, DE, ZH cinema · 189 credits
Born
18 August 1956 (age 70)
Birthplace
Glendale, California, USA
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt. Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004). The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979. After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler. In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5. Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators. Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas. He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Debney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
The Man with the Bag
Original Music Composer
You, Me & Tuscany
Original Music Composer
In Your Dreams
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Original Music Composer
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Original Music Composer
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Original Music Composer
The Garfield Movie
Conductor, Original Music Composer
Space Cadet
Original Music Composer
Hypnotic
Additional Music
Spy Kids: Armageddon
Original Music Composer
80 for Brady
Original Music Composer
Under the Boardwalk
Original Music Composer
Luck
Original Music Composer
Hocus Pocus 2
Original Music Composer
Marry Me
Original Music Composer
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Original Music Composer
Home Sweet Home Alone
Original Music Composer
American Underdog
Original Music Composer
Come Away
Original Music Composer
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Original Music Composer
Asteroid Hunters
Original Music Composer
I Still Believe
Original Music Composer
Lake of Death
Original Music Composer
Isn't It Romantic
Original Music Composer
Brian Banks
Original Music Composer
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Original Music Composer
The Beach Bum
Original Music Composer
Sextuplets
Original Music Composer
Beirut
Original Music Composer
Chiefs
2018
Chiefs
Original Music Composer
Flint
Original Music Composer
Home Again
Original Music Composer
The Greatest Showman
Original Music Composer
League of Gods
Original Music Composer
Ice Age: Collision Course
Original Music Composer
Scrat: Spaced Out
Original Music Composer
The Jungle Book
Original Music Composer
The Young Messiah
Original Music Composer
Mother's Day
Original Music Composer
Growing Up Wild
Original Music Composer
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Original Music Composer
Broken Horses
Original Music Composer
Walk of Shame
Original Music Composer
Draft Day
Original Music Composer
The Cobbler
Original Music Composer
Stonehearst Asylum
Original Music Composer
The After
Original Music Composer
Jobs
Original Music Composer
The Call
Original Music Composer
Best Worst Friends
Original Music Composer
The Three Stooges
Original Music Composer
Alex Cross
Original Music Composer
A Thousand Words
Original Music Composer
Dream House
Original Music Composer
The Double
Original Music Composer
New Year's Eve
Original Music Composer
The Change-Up
Original Music Composer
No Strings Attached
Original Music Composer
Predators
Original Music Composer
Iron Man 2
Original Music Composer
Valentine's Day
Original Music Composer
Yogi Bear
Original Music Composer
Snowmen
Original Music Composer
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Original Music Composer
Aliens in the Attic
Original Music Composer
Old Dogs
Original Music Composer
Hotel for Dogs
Original Music Composer
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Original Music Composer
My Best Friend's Girl
Original Music Composer
The Seed
Music
Meet Dave
Original Music Composer
Swing Vote
Original Music Composer
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Additional Music
Georgia Rule
Original Music Composer
Evan Almighty
Original Music Composer
Barnyard
Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Ant Bully
Original Music Composer
Idlewild
Original Music Composer
Everyone's Hero
Original Music Composer
Keeping Up with the Steins
Original Music Composer
Sin City
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
Original Music Composer
Chicken Little
Original Music Composer
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Original Music Composer
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Original Music Composer
The Pacifier
Original Music Composer
Duma
Original Music Composer
The Passion of the Christ
Original Music Composer
The Whole Ten Yards
Original Music Composer
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Original Music Composer
Welcome to Mooseport
Original Music Composer
Christmas with the Kranks
Original Music Composer
Raising Helen
Original Music Composer
Bruce Almighty
Original Music Composer
Elf
Original Music Composer
Malibu's Most Wanted
Original Music Composer
The Sweatbox
as Self
Dragonfly
Original Music Composer
The Tuxedo
Original Music Composer
Snow Dogs
Original Music Composer
The Scorpion King
Original Music Composer
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Original Music Composer
The Hot Chick
Original Music Composer
Swimfan
Original Music Composer
Heartbreakers
Original Music Composer
Cats & Dogs
Original Music Composer
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Original Music Composer
The Princess Diaries
Original Music Composer
Spy Kids
Original Music Composer
See Spot Run
Original Music Composer
The Replacements
Original Music Composer
The Emperor's New Groove
Original Music Composer
Relative Values
Original Music Composer
Running Mates
Original Music Composer
End of Days
Original Music Composer
Dick
Original Music Composer
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Original Music Composer
Inspector Gadget
Original Music Composer
My Favorite Martian
Original Music Composer
Komodo
Original Music Composer
G-Saviour
Original Music Composer
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Original Music Composer
Lost & Found
Original Music Composer
Paulie
Original Music Composer
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Original Music Composer
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Relic
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Justice League of America
Original Music Composer
Liar Liar
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Getting Away with Murder
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Carpool
Original Music Composer
Chameleon
Original Music Composer
In Pursuit of Honor
Original Music Composer
Sudden Death
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Cutthroat Island
Original Music Composer
Houseguest
Original Music Composer
Runaway Brain
Original Music Composer
Kansas
Original Music Composer
Little Giants
Original Music Composer
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Original Music Composer
Hocus Pocus
Original Music Composer
Gunmen
Original Music Composer
The Flintstones: Hollyrock a Bye Baby
Original Music Composer
The Halloween Tree
Original Music Composer
The Town Santa Forgot
Original Music Composer
I Yabba-Dabba Do!
Original Music Composer
Jonny's Golden Quest
Original Music Composer
SeaQuest DSV
Original Music Composer
Class of '61
Original Music Composer
For Love and Glory
Original Music Composer
Praying Mantis
Original Music Composer
Still Not Quite Human
Original Music Composer
Sunstroke
Original Music Composer
Into the Badlands
Original Music Composer
A Seduction in Travis County
Original Music Composer
Jetsons: The Movie
Original Music Composer
The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour
Original Music Composer
The Face of Fear
Original Music Composer
Carmilla
Music
Trenchcoat in Paradise
Original Music Composer
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
Original Music Composer
Not Since Casanova
Original Music Composer
Seven Hours to Judgment
Original Music Composer
DTV: Monster Hits
Additional Music
DTV 'Doggone' Valentine
Original Music Composer
The Wild Pair
Original Music Composer
The Day My Kid Went Punk
Original Music Composer
Rose Petal Place: Real Friends
Original Music Composer
Fitness and Me: Why Exercise?
Original Music Composer
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Original Music Composer
The Strongest Man in the World
as John (Student)