Jonathan Tunick
Known for: Sound
Born: April 19, 1938
Place of birth: New York, New York, U.S
Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021. Tunick has won numerous awards and became the seventh person to win an EGOT in 1997. In film, he has worked mainly as an orchestrator, including for several of Mel Brooks' early films. He composed the scores for films such as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Endless Love (1981), The Birdcage (1996), and Find Me Guilty (2006).
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Filmography
43 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
6.9
Merrily We Roll Along
2025
9.0
Little Shrew (Snowflake)
2025
2.0
Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
2023
NR
Simply Sondheim
2021
9.3
Bombshell in Concert
2020
8.0
National Theatre Live: Follies
2017
5.8
Into the Woods
2014
8.1
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic
2014
10.0
Merrily We Roll Along
2013
6.9
Company
2011
6.5
Find Me Guilty
2006
9.1
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
2004
NR
A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center
2002
6.5
Putting It Together
2001
7.1
Company
1996
6.5
Passion
1996
7.1
The Birdcage
1996
5.5
The Last Good Time
1994
8.1
Into the Woods
1991
9.2
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
19906.0
Tattingers
1988
5.9
You Ruined My Life
1987
7.5
Amazing Stories
1985
7.3
Brotherly Love
1985
7.4
I Am the Cheese
1983
6.8
Alice in Wonderland
1983
8.2
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
8.0
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
19827.0
Comedy of Horrors
1981
5.7
Endless Love
1981
6.5
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
5.0
Blinded by the Light
1980
9.0
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical
1980
4.0
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980
9.0
Swan Song
1980
8.0
The Five Forty-Eight
1979
9.0
O Youth and Beauty!
1979
10.0
The Sorrows of Gin
1979
6.0
America 2100
19797.0
Rendezvous Hotel
1979
9.0
Flying High
1978
6.1
A Little Night Music
1977
9.0
Pacific Overtures
1976
7.9
Young Frankenstein
1974
7.2
Blazing Saddles
1974
NR
Tony Awards
1956