Bear McCreary
Known for: Sound
Born: February 17, 1979
Place of birth: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
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Filmography
64 movies · 30 TV shows, newest first
6.5
The Devil's Mouth
2026
NR
Goodbye, Monster
2026
8.5
M.I.A.
2026
5.9
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
2026
NR
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast
2025
8.6
Outlander: Blood of My Blood
2025
6.3
Drop
2025
NR
We Never Smiled in the 90’s
2024
NR
Going Home Again: Making The 4:30 Movie
2024
5.8
The 4:30 Movie
2024
5.9
Imaginary
2024
7.3
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
7.8
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
2024
7.3
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
6.7
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
2023
6.4
We Have a Ghost
2023
6.0
Splinter
2023
6.5
The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022
5.9
Call Me Miss Cleo
2022
7.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
7.4
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening
2022
6.6
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022
6.4
Last Seen Alive
2022
8.2
Halo
2022
3.4
This Game's Called Murder
2021
6.6
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
2021
NR
Fund the Bat
2020
6.5
Freaky
2020
6.3
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
2020
5.8
Ava
2020
7.4
Snowpiercer
2020
7.2
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
20204.0
The Dark Tower
2020
5.7
Fantasy Island
2020
8.1
See
2019
6.0
Eli
2019
6.0
Child's Play
2019
6.7
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
6.0
Rim of the World
2019
7.1
The Professor and the Madman
2019
7.2
Proven Innocent
2019
6.3
Happy Death Day 2U
2019
5.9
Pooka!
2018
5.3
Welcome Home
2018
5.7
Hell Fest
2018
6.4
I Still See You
2018
6.4
Animal Crackers
2018
6.2
Tau
2018
NR
The Shadow Hours
2018
5.6
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018
NR
A Holliston Halloween
2017
6.9
Unrest
2017
6.7
Happy Death Day
2017
7.0
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
6.6
Rebel in the Rye
2017
5.7
Victor Crowley
2017
5.5
Revolt
2017
6.3
Colossal
2017
7.2
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
7.1
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot
2016
7.0
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
6.0
The Boy
2016
5.2
The Forest
2016
5.5
Everly
2015
5.4
Digging Up the Marrow
2015
7.8
Constantine
2014
6.6
Intruders
2014
8.2
Outlander
2014
5.3
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
2014
7.6
Black Sails
2014
5.6
Knights of Badassdom
2014
7.5
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
6.3
Europa Report
2013
6.8
Defiance
2013
7.6
Da Vinci's Demons
2013
6.8
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
20126.6
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
2012NR
The Asset
2012
8.3
Black Mirror
2011
5.7
Chillerama
2011
5.1
The Cape
2011
8.1
The Walking Dead
2010
6.8
Step Up 3D
2010
7.8
The Making of The Walking Dead
2010
6.9
Caprica
2010
7.3
Human Target
2010
6.7
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
7.5
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008
7.2
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007
6.2
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
2007
5.5
Rest Stop
2006
7.7
Eureka
2006
8.2
Battlestar Galactica
2004
7.0
Periphery, Texas
2002