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Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How The West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards.
Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood. Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music"
Academy Awards
Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
Best Original Musical Score
Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment
Known For
Dodsworth
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965)
Original Music Composer
The Little Foxes
(1941)
Music Director
The Robe
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Dead End
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Seven Year Itch
(1955)
Original Music Composer
Dragonwyck
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Broken Arrow
(1950)
Music Director
Modern Times
(1936)
Music Director
Nevada Smith
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Rain
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Viva Zapata!
(1952)
Original Music Composer
City Lights
(1931)
Music Director
How the West Was Won
(1962)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The Gunfighter
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Wuthering Heights
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Full Filmography
Sound
Arrowsmith
(1931)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Age for Love
(1931)
Original Music Composer
City Lights
(1931)
Music Director
Street Scene
(1931)
Music Director
Tonight or Never
(1931)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Unholy Garden
(1931)
Music Director
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
(1931)
Original Music Composer
Corsair
(1931)
Original Music Composer
Rain
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Movie Crazy
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Flesh
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Night World
(1932)
Original Music Composer
The Kid from Spain
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Sky Devils
(1932)
Original Music Composer
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
(1932)
Original Music Composer
Cynara
(1932)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
(1932)
Original Music Composer
The Bowery
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Roman Scandals
(1933)
Original Music Composer
The Masquerader
(1933)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
(1933)
Original Music Composer
I Cover the Waterfront
(1933)
Original Music Composer
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
(1933)
Music Director and Original Music Composer
Secrets
(1933)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Blood Money
(1933)
Music Director
Born to Be Bad
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Mighty Barnum
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Nana
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Kid Millions
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
(1934)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
We Live Again
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Looking for Trouble
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Last Gentleman
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Affairs of Cellini
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
(1934)
Original Music Composer
The Count of Monte Cristo
(1934)
Music
The House of Rothschild
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Our Daily Bread
(1934)
Original Music Composer
Red Salute
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Call of the Wild
(1935)
Original Music Composer
The Wedding Night
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Splendor
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Les Misérables
(1935)
Original Music Composer
The Dark Angel
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Clive of India
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Barbary Coast
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Cardinal Richelieu
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Folies Bergère
(1935)
Original Music Composer
Broadway Melody of 1936
(1935)
Music Director
Beloved Enemy
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Dodsworth
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Come and Get It
(1936)
Original Music Composer
These Three
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Ramona
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Strike Me Pink
(1936)
Original Music Composer
Modern Times
(1936)
Music Director
Born to Dance
(1936)
Music Director
One Rainy Afternoon
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Dancing Pirate
(1936)
Music
The Gay Desperado
(1936)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
You Only Live Once
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Slave Ship
(1937)
Original Music Composer
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)
Original Music Composer
Dead End
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Wee Willie Winkie
(1937)
Original Music Composer
The Hurricane
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
History Is Made at Night
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Stella Dallas
(1937)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Woman Chases Man
(1937)
Original Music Composer
52nd Street
(1937)
Original Music Composer
Trade Winds
(1938)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Alexander's Ragtime Band
(1938)
Music Director
The Cowboy and the Lady
(1938)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Adventures of Marco Polo
(1938)
Music Director
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939)
Original Music Composer
The Real Glory
(1939)
Original Music Composer
The Star Maker
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Beau Geste
(1939)
Original Music Composer
The Rains Came
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Young Mr. Lincoln
(1939)
Original Music Composer
Wuthering Heights
(1939)
Original Music Composer
They Shall Have Music
(1939)
Music Director
Gunga Din
(1939)
Original Music Composer
The Gorilla
(1939)
Music
Barricade
(1939)
Music Director
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Blondie on a Budget
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Vigil in the Night
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Little Old New York
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Earthbound
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Tin Pan Alley
(1940)
Original Music Composer
Brigham Young
(1940)
Original Music Composer
The Mark of Zorro
(1940)
Music
Girl in 313
(1940)
Original Music Composer
The Blue Bird
(1940)
Music
They Knew What They Wanted
(1940)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
How Green Was My Valley
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Hudson's Bay
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Blood and Sand
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Man Hunt
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Ball of Fire
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Wild Geese Calling
(1941)
Original Music Composer
The Little Foxes
(1941)
Music Director
Belle Starr
(1941)
Original Music Composer
Charley's Aunt
(1941)
Original Music Composer
A Yank in the R.A.F.
(1941)
Music Director
To the Shores of Tripoli
(1942)
Original Music Composer
This Above All
(1942)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
China Girl
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
(1942)
Original Music Composer
The Black Swan
(1942)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Battle of Midway
(1942)
Original Music Composer
It's Everybody's War
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Orchestra Wives
(1942)
Music Director
Prelude to War
(1942)
Music
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
(1942)
Original Music Composer
Roxie Hart
(1942)
Original Music Composer
The Pied Piper
(1942)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
(1942)
Music
The Song of Bernadette
(1943)
Original Music Composer
Heaven Can Wait
(1943)
Original Music Composer
The Moon Is Down
(1943)
Original Music Composer
December 7th
(1943)
Original Music Composer
Claudia
(1943)
Original Music Composer
The Gang's All Here
(1943)
Music
The Keys of the Kingdom
(1944)
Original Music Composer
The Purple Heart
(1944)
Original Music Composer
Wilson
(1944)
Original Music Composer
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
(1944)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Leave Her to Heaven
(1945)
Original Music Composer
A Royal Scandal
(1945)
Original Music Composer
A Bell for Adano
(1945)
Original Music Composer
Dragonwyck
(1946)
Original Music Composer
My Darling Clementine
(1946)
Music Director
The Razor's Edge
(1946)
Original Music Composer
Margie
(1946)
Music Director
Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)
Music Director
Captain from Castile
(1947)
Original Music Composer
Gentleman's Agreement
(1947)
Original Music Composer
The Brasher Doubloon
(1947)
Music Director
Daisy Kenyon
(1947)
Music Director
The Late George Apley
(1947)
Music Director
Moss Rose
(1947)
Music Director
Mother Wore Tights
(1947)
Music Director
Call Northside 777
(1948)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The Snake Pit
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Cry of the City
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Sitting Pretty
(1948)
Original Music Composer
Yellow Sky
(1948)
Original Music Composer
The Walls of Jericho
(1948)
Music
That Lady in Ermine
(1948)
Music
Thieves' Highway
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Mother Is a Freshman
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Down to the Sea in Ships
(1949)
Music
Pinky
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Twelve O'Clock High
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
(1949)
Original Music Composer
A Letter to Three Wives
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Prince of Foxes
(1949)
Original Music Composer
Dancing in the Dark
(1949)
Music Director
You're My Everything
(1949)
Music and Music Director
All About Eve
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Panic in the Streets
(1950)
Original Music Composer
The Gunfighter
(1950)
Original Music Composer
For Heaven's Sake
(1950)
Original Music Composer
No Way Out
(1950)
Original Music Composer
The Big Lift
(1950)
Original Music Composer
Broken Arrow
(1950)
Music Director
When Willie Comes Marching Home
(1950)
Music
Two Flags West
(1950)
Music Director
David and Bathsheba
(1951)
Original Music Composer
Take Care of My Little Girl
(1951)
Original Music Composer
Fourteen Hours
(1951)
Original Music Composer
The CinemaScope Parade
(1951)
Music
The House on Telegraph Hill
(1951)
Music Director
Viva Zapata!
(1952)
Original Music Composer
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1952)
Original Music Composer
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
(1952)
Original Music Composer
O. Henry's Full House
(1952)
Original Music Composer
With a Song in My Heart
(1952)
Original Music Composer
What Price Glory
(1952)
Music
How to Marry a Millionaire
(1953)
Original Music Composer and Music Director
The President's Lady
(1953)
Original Music Composer
The Robe
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Call Me Madam
(1953)
Music Director
The Desert Rats
(1953)
Music Director
Treasure of the Golden Condor
(1953)
Music Director
The Egyptian
(1954)
Original Music Composer
There's No Business Like Show Business
(1954)
Music Supervisor
Hell and High Water
(1954)
Original Music Composer
A Man Called Peter
(1955)
Original Music Composer
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955)
Original Music Composer
The Seven Year Itch
(1955)
Original Music Composer
Daddy Long Legs
(1955)
Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor, and Conductor
Anastasia
(1956)
Original Music Composer
Bus Stop
(1956)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Carousel
(1956)
Conductor and Music Supervisor
The King and I
(1956)
Original Music Composer
South Pacific
(1958)
Original Music Composer, Conductor, and Music Supervisor
The Gift of Love
(1958)
Original Music Composer
A Certain Smile
(1958)
Music
The Diary of Anne Frank
(1959)
Original Music Composer
The Best of Everything
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Flower Drum Song
(1961)
Original Music Composer, Conductor, and Music Supervisor
The Pleasure of His Company
(1961)
Music
How the West Was Won
(1962)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The Counterfeit Traitor
(1962)
Original Music Composer
State Fair
(1962)
Original Music Composer
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Nevada Smith
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Camelot
(1967)
Music
Firecreek
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Airport
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
(1981)
Songs
Acting
They Shall Have Music
(1939)
Musical Director
The CinemaScope Parade
(1951)
Joseph Haydn
How to Marry a Millionaire
(1953)
Orchestra Conductor in Prologue (uncredited)
Crew