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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1957-04-28
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 2.5
- info Birth Place Redbank, New Jersey, USA
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Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species'
2017-06-11
6.4
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015-06-18
6.4
Drag Me to Hell
2009-05-27
7.1
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017-03-16
7
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2018-11-20
7.5
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012-09-29
1
The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
2015-04-07
6.5
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018-10-14
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6.5
Ghost Rider
2007-01-15
6.5
Spider-Man 3
2007-05-01
6.5
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985-11-01
6.5
Copycat
1995-10-27
6.5
The Dark Half
1993-04-23
6.5
Bless the Child
2000-08-11
6.5
The Hurricane
1999-09-17
6.5
Sweet November
2001-02-16
6.5
Jennifer Eight
1992-11-06
6.5
The Grudge 2
2006-10-12
6.5
The Gift
2000-03-16
6.5
Unforgettable
1996-02-23
6.5
Bandits
2001-10-12
6.5
Rounders
1998-09-11
6.5
Wonder Boys
2000-02-22
6.5
Creation
2009-09-25
6.5
Hard Rain
1998-01-16
6.5
Runaway Jury
2003-01-16
6.5
Head Above Water
1996-11-07
6.5
The Shipping News
2001-12-18
6.5
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
1985-10-01
6.5
Love Happens
2009-09-18
6.5
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988-12-23
6.5
Virtuosity
1995-08-04
6.5
The Core
2003-03-28
6.5
Species
1995-07-07
6.5
Swordfish
2001-06-08
6.5
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997-11-14
6.5
Hellraiser
1987-09-11
6.5
When in Rome
2010-01-29
6.5
Barbarian Queen
1985-11-30
6.5
Priest
2011-05-05
6.5
Drag Me to Hell
2009-05-27
6.5
Sinister
2012-03-29
6.5
Haunted Summer
1988-12-16
6.5
Shortcut to Happiness
2003-07-13
6.5
The Black Tulip
2012-10-26
6.5
Highpoint
1982-08-20
6.5
DEFCON-4
1985-03-15
6.5
Trick or Treat
1986-10-24
6.5
The Piper
2023-10-12
6.5
The Grudge
2004-10-22
6.5
Murder at 1600
1997-04-18
6.5
Hider in the House
1989-05-13
6.5
Urban Legend
1998-09-25
6.5
Rapid Fire
1992-08-21
6.5
Love's Routine
2013-06-19
6.5
Saving Norman
2013-05-25
6.5
The Single Moms Club
2014-03-14
6.5
The Smile Man
2013-06-15
6.5
The Rum Diary
2011-10-13
6.5
Lucky You
2007-05-01
6.5
Wheels of Fire
1985-04-11
6.5
Tales from The Grudge
2006-09-19
6.5
Bat★21
1988-07-21
6.5
Max and Helen
1990-01-08
6.5
Murder at 1600
1997-04-18
6.5
An Unfinished Life
2005-09-09
6.5
The Big Kahuna
1999-11-17
6.5
The Big Kahuna
1999-11-17
6.5
Species
1995-07-07
6.5
Entrapment
1999-04-29
6.5
The Dorm That Dripped Blood
1982-04-02
6.5
Judicial Consent
1994-10-21
6.5
The Vagrant
1992-05-15
6.5
Tales from the Hood
1995-05-24
6.5
The Vagrant
1992-05-15
6.5
Dream Lover
1993-10-24
6.5
Something the Lord Made
2004-05-30
6.5
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988-12-23
6.5
Hellraiser
1987-09-11
6.5
Invaders from Mars
1986-06-06
6.5
Getting Even
1986-02-21
6.5
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005-09-09
6.5
Creepover
2023-02-14
6.5
The Monkey King
2014-01-09
6.5
In Too Deep
1999-08-25
6.5
The Country Bears
2002-07-26
6.5
The Glass House
2001-09-14
6.5
Tales from the Hood
1995-05-24
6.5
The Fly II
1989-02-10
6.5
Untraceable
2008-01-22
6.5
Murder in the First
1995-01-20
6.5
The Power
1984-01-20
6.5
Beauty Shop
2005-04-22
6.5
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996-05-18
6.5
The Telephone
1988-01-22
6.5
Judas Kiss
1998-09-16
6.5
The Baytown Outlaws
2012-08-27
6.5
The Monkey King 2
2016-01-22
6.5
Killing Season
2013-07-12
6.5
The Informers
2008-11-05
6.5
The Ghostmaker
2011-08-01
6.5
The Offering
2022-09-23
6.5
Deliver Us from Evil
2014-07-01
6.5
Set It Off
1996-11-06
6.5
Flowers in the Attic
1987-11-20
6.5
Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back
1990-03-23
6.5
Sleepwalking
2008-03-14
6.5
Fanboy
2019-03-22
6.5
Godzilla 1985
1985-07-26
6.5
American Harvest
1987-01-16
6.5
Pet Sematary
2019-04-04
6.5
Scenes of the Crime
2002-05-11
6.5
Hush
1998-03-06
6.5
The Uninvited
2009-01-30
6.5
Gods Behaving Badly
2013-11-13
6.5
Avenging Angel
1985-01-11
6.5
Bright Angel
1990-11-01
6.5
The Empty Man
2020-10-22
6.5
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022-10-25