Bernard Herrmann
Known for: Sound
Born: June 29, 1911
Died: December 24, 1975
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.
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Filmography
71 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
7.2
Cape Fear
2026
7.0
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes
2020
10.0
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019
8.6
The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever
2018NR
Le carnaval de l’angoisse
20095.5
Back to Room 666
2008
7.5
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
7.0
20th Century Greats
2004
7.2
Psycho Path
1999
5.1
Psycho
1998
NR
Bon week-end Monsieur Bennett !
1994
7.0
The Egg
1993
7.3
Cape Fear
1991
5.7
Psycho IV: The Beginning
1990
NR
The Story of a Recluse
1987
6.1
Cada ver es...
1983
NR
Psycho Shampoo
1979
5.4
It Lives Again
1978
5.8
God Told Me To
1976
6.7
Obsession
1976
8.1
Taxi Driver
1976
6.0
Hanuman and the Five Kamen Riders
1975
6.0
It's Alive
1974
6.7
Sisters
1973
6.1
Endless Night
1972
6.3
The Road Builder
1971
6.8
The Battle of Neretva
1969
4.6
Obsessions
1969
6.8
Twisted Nerve
1968
5.3
Companions in Nightmare
1968
7.1
The Bride Wore Black
1968
4.9
Death in the Afternoon
1968
7.1
Fahrenheit 451
1966
7.3
Lost in Space
1965
7.1
Marnie
1964
7.3
A Talk with Hitchcock
1964
7.2
Jason and the Argonauts
1963
7.5
The Birds
1963
7.5
Cape Fear
1962
5.7
Tender Is the Night
1962
6.6
Mysterious Island
1961
6.6
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
1960
8.4
Psycho
1960
6.9
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
8.0
North by Northwest
1959
5.3
Blue Denim
1959
6.9
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958
5.7
The Naked and the Dead
1958
6.4
The Fiend Who Walked the West
1958
8.1
Vertigo
1958
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
6.8
A Hatful of Rain
1957
7.0
Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot
1957
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
7.4
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
6.7
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
7.0
The Trouble with Harry
1955
5.8
The Kentuckian
1955
5.5
Prince of Players
1955
6.7
A Christmas Carol
1954
6.5
The Egyptian
1954
6.3
Garden of Evil
1954
5.9
King of the Khyber Rifles
1953
6.0
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953
6.5
White Witch Doctor
1953
5.9
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
7.5
5 Fingers
1952
6.6
On Dangerous Ground
1951
7.5
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
7.5
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
6.2
Anna and the King of Siam
1946
7.0
Hangover Square
1945
6.9
Jane Eyre
1943
7.3
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
7.0
All That Money Can Buy
1941
8.0
Citizen Kane
1941