Elmer Bernstein
Known for: Sound
Born: April 4, 1922
Died: August 18, 2004
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records an American record label based in Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Tommy Wolf.
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Filmography
204 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
7.2
Cape Fear
2026
5.5
Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
2011
6.0
Return Of The Ghostbusters
2007
6.3
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
7.1
Far from Heaven
2002
7.4
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
6.8
Chinese Coffee
2000
NR
Frank Sinatra Memorial
2000
7.0
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
6.1
Keeping the Faith
2000
6.4
A Storm in Summer
2000
6.6
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
6.4
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
5.3
Wild Wild West
1999
7.0
Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
6.6
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
10.0
Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
1999
7.3
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998NR
Puppies for Sale
1998
6.1
Twilight
1998
5.3
Fearful Symmetry
1998
7.0
The Rainmaker
1997
6.5
Hoodlum
1997
5.0
Buddy
1997
5.8
Bulletproof
1996
6.5
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
5.3
Frankie Starlight
1995
5.7
Canadian Bacon
1995
8.4
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995
4.8
Search and Destroy
1995
5.7
Roommates
1995NR
The Hollywood Soundtrack Story
1995
7.0
The Bible According to Hollywood
1994
6.8
The Good Son
1993
7.0
The Age of Innocence
1993
7.0
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
6.6
Fallen Angels
1993
6.3
Lost in Yonkers
1993
6.0
Mad Dog and Glory
1993
5.6
The Cemetery Club
1993
6.8
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
1992
5.7
The Babe
1992
7.3
Cape Fear
1991
6.2
Rambling Rose
1991
5.5
A Rage in Harlem
1991
6.4
Oscar
1991
7.0
The Field
1990
6.5
The Grifters
1990
4.3
Slipstream
1989
7.5
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989
5.7
The Good Mother
1988
6.2
Funny Farm
1988
6.9
Da
1988
2.9
Leonard Part 6
1987
5.9
Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987
6.3
¡Three Amigos!
1986
6.0
Legal Eagles
1986
6.2
Spies Like Us
1985
9.0
Prince Jack
1985
6.4
The Black Cauldron
1985
9.0
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
1985
7.5
Ghostbusters
1984
8.3
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983
6.0
Class
1983
7.2
Trading Places
1983
5.4
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983
6.1
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
5.7
Five Days One Summer
1982
7.5
Genocide
1982
7.4
An American Werewolf in London
1981
5.4
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
7.1
The Chosen
1981
6.5
Heavy Metal
1981
6.6
Stripes
1981
4.5
Going Ape!
1981
7.3
Airplane!
1980
7.7
The Blues Brothers
1980
6.3
This Year's Blonde
1980
7.3
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
5.3
Saturn 3
1980
6.8
The Great Santini
1979
5.8
Meatballs
1979
6.1
Zulu Dawn
1979
8.0
Charleston
1979
6.3
Little Women
1978
5.8
Bloodbrothers
1978
6.9
Animal House
1978
7.0
Cezanne
1978
NR
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
1977
7.0
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
7.7
Powers of Ten
1977
6.5
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
1977
5.6
The Incredible Sarah
1976
5.9
From Noon Till Three
1976
7.1
The Shootist
1976
9.0
Serpico: The Deadly Game
1976
4.8
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
8.0
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975
6.6
Report to the Commissioner
1975NR
Metropolitan Overview
1975
5.9
The Trial of Billy Jack
1974
5.5
Nightmare Honeymoon
1974
5.7
Gold
1974
7.0
Men of the Dragon
1974
6.1
McQ
1974
6.1
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
5.3
Incident on a Dark Street
1973
8.0
Nicholas Copernicus
1973
6.6
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972
5.7
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1972
7.0
The Rookies
1972
7.0
Computer Perspective
197210.0
Appointment With Destiny
1971
6.5
See No Evil
1971
NR
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
6.8
Big Jake
1971
5.0
Doctors' Wives
1971
7.2
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971
10.0
Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
1971
5.6
Cannon for Cordoba
1970
5.7
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970
6.1
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970
6.0
The Gypsy Moths
1969
5.4
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
6.7
The Bridge at Remagen
1969
7.3
True Grit
1969
4.7
Midas Run
1969
7.5
Where's Jack?
19698.3
Tops
1969
5.1
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
1968
7.5
A Computer Glossary
1968
6.4
The Scalphunters
1968
7.3
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
1968
6.8
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967
6.1
Return of the Seven
1966
6.3
Hawaii
1966
6.3
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
6.1
The Silencers
1966NR
View from the People Wall
1966
6.5
7 Women
1965
6.0
The Reward
19659.0
The Smithsonian Institution
1965
7.0
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
6.1
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
NR
The Bold Men
1965
6.1
Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965
6.0
IBM at the Fair
1965
6.4
Four Days In November
1964
5.9
The Carpetbaggers
1964
5.9
The World of Henry Orient
1964
NR
The Making of the President 1960
1963
6.8
Love with the Proper Stranger
1963
6.0
Kings of the Sun
1963
5.3
Rampage
1963
6.4
The Caretakers
1963
7.9
The Great Escape
1963
7.3
Hud
1963
5.8
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962
8.0
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
7.5
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
6.6
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
6.7
The Comancheros
1961
6.6
Summer and Smoke
1961
5.8
The Young Doctors
1961
5.2
By Love Possessed
1961
6.7
Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
1961
6.7
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
1961
7.5
The Magnificent Seven
1960
6.6
From the Terrace
1960
6.8
The Rat Race
1960
6.0
The Fabulous Fifties
1960
10.0
An Introduction to Feedback
1960
5.1
The Story on Page One
1959
6.7
The Miracle
1959
7.0
Some Came Running
1958
6.5
The Buccaneer
1958
6.2
Anna Lucasta
1958
6.2
God's Little Acre
1958
6.1
Kings Go Forth
1958
6.7
Saddle the Wind
1958
6.8
Desire Under the Elms
1958
7.0
The Tin Star
1957
7.5
Toccata for Toy Trains
1957
7.6
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
6.6
Men in War
1957
7.2
Fear Strikes Out
1957
5.6
Drango
19576.0
The Information Machine
1957
7.8
The Ten Commandments
1956
NR
The Naked Eye
1956
7.1
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
4.3
It's a Dog's Life
1955
6.0
Storm Fear
1955
3.8
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
6.6
The Eternal Sea
1955
5.8
House: After Five Years of Living
1955
6.3
Silent Raiders
1954
6.0
Make Haste to Live
1954
6.5
Miss Robin Crusoe
1953
4.1
Cat-Women of the Moon
1953
4.5
Robot Monster
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
5.0
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
5.0
A Communications Primer
1953
5.7
Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952
7.2
Sudden Fear
1952
8.1
Boots Malone
1952
6.3
Saturday's Hero
1951
NR
Monty and the Movies
—NR
All About Alfred
—9.0
Taking The Wheel
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