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John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter; Chaplin; The Cotton Club; The Tamarind Seed; Mary, Queen of Scots; Game of Death; and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years. Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black. In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia page John Barry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1933-11-03
- event Death Date 2011-01-30
- school Known for: Sound
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- info Birth Place York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by John Barry
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Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond
1997-12-28
5.4
Deadfall
1968-09-11
7.2
The Sound of 007
2022-10-04
0
6.5 Special
1958-03-01
7.1
Everything or Nothing
2012-10-05
5
Best Ever Bond
2002-11-22
8
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
2000-05-26
6.6
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
2000-06-23
6.7
Inside 'Dr. No'
2000-05-16
6.5
Harry Saltzman: Showman
2000-01-01
8.3
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003-05-20
7
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
2000-10-17
7
Lights, Action, Music
2007-08-06
0
A Song of Africa
2000-02-29
6
The Bond Sound: The Music of 007
2000-01-01
6
The World of James Bond
1995-10-29
0
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999-08-27
6.8
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995-05-16
0
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
2004-01-01
7
Tonight in Person
1963-01-30
5
Legends
2006-11-17
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
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Dances with Wolves
1990-03-30
4.9
Out of Africa
1985-12-20
4.9
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986-10-10
4.9
From Russia with Love
1963-10-10
4.9
Goldfinger
1964-09-20
4.9
Thunderball
1965-12-11
4.9
You Only Live Twice
1967-06-13
4.9
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969-12-18
4.9
Diamonds Are Forever
1971-12-14
4.9
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974-12-04
4.9
A View to a Kill
1985-05-24
4.9
Moonraker
1979-06-26
4.9
Octopussy
1983-06-05
4.9
The Living Daylights
1987-06-29
4.9
Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
4.9
The Specialist
1994-10-07
4.9
King Kong
1976-09-08
4.9
Swept from the Sea
1998-01-23
4.9
Chaplin
1992-12-17
4.9
Robin and Marian
1976-03-11
4.9
Enigma
2001-01-22
4.9
The Scarlet Letter
1995-10-13
4.9
Indecent Proposal
1993-04-07
4.9
The Cotton Club
1984-12-14
4.9
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964-06-19
4.9
Midnight Cowboy
1969-05-25
4.9
A Killing Affair
1985-10-24
4.9
Frances
1982-12-03
4.9
Howard the Duck
1986-08-01
4.9
The Day of the Locust
1975-05-07
4.9
The Chase
1966-02-18
4.9
Mercury Rising
1998-04-03
4.9
Jagged Edge
1985-10-04
4.9
The Black Hole
1979-12-18
4.9
Zulu
1964-01-22
4.9
Never Let Go
1960-06-02
4.9
The Last Valley
1971-01-28
4.9
Somewhere in Time
1980-10-02
4.9
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971-12-22
4.9
Goldfinger
1964-09-20
4.9
Dr. No
1962-10-07
4.9
The Dove
1974-06-16
4.9
Dutchman
1966-12-28
4.9
From Russia with Love
1963-10-10
4.9
Thunderball
1965-12-11
4.9
Deadfall
1968-09-11
4.9
Monte Walsh
1970-10-02
4.9
The Whisperers
1967-07-18
4.9
The Glass Menagerie
1973-12-16
4.9
Boom!
1968-05-26
4.9
High Road to China
1983-03-18
4.9
Boy and Bicycle
1965-01-01
4.9
Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
4.9
Playing by Heart
1998-12-30
4.9
The Quiller Memorandum
1966-11-10
4.9
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964-06-19
4.9
Sophia Loren in Rome
1964-11-12
4.9
The Golden Seal
1983-08-12
4.9
Follow Me!
1972-07-15
4.9
Frances
1982-12-03
4.9
Elizabeth Taylor in London
1963-10-06
4.9
Born Free
1966-03-26
4.9
Beat Girl
1960-08-21
4.9
Born Free
1966-03-26
4.9
Touched by Love
1980-10-31
4.9
A Doll's House
1973-04-10
4.9
Love Among the Ruins
1975-03-06
4.9
The Amorous Prawn
1962-11-26
4.9
The White Buffalo
1977-05-01
4.9
Across the Sea of Time
1995-10-20
4.9
Game of Death
1978-03-23
4.9
Murder by Phone
1982-12-01
4.9
Willa
1979-03-17
4.9
Masquerade
1988-03-11
4.9
First Love
1977-08-08
4.9
The Lion in Winter
1968-10-30
4.9
Hearts of Fire
1987-11-06
4.9
The Deep
1977-06-17
4.9
The Ipcress File
1965-03-18
4.9
Mike's Murder
1984-03-09
4.9
A Jolly Bad Fellow
1964-03-15
4.9
Starcrash
1978-12-21
4.9
Walkabout
1971-07-01
4.9
The Wrong Box
1966-06-19
4.9
The Wrong Box
1966-06-19
4.9
Inside Moves
1980-12-19
4.9
King Rat
1965-10-27
4.9
Midnight Cowboy
1969-05-25
4.9
Man in the Middle
1964-01-27
4.9
Walkabout
1971-07-01
4.9
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972-11-20
4.9
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003-05-20
4.9
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990-11-15
4.9
My Life
1993-11-12
4.9
The Corn Is Green
1979-01-29
4.9
The Party's Over
1965-04-22
4.9
Until September
1984-09-21
4.9
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995-12-15
4.9
Starcrash
1978-12-21
4.9
The Betsy
1978-02-02
4.9
The Appointment
1969-05-22
4.9
They Might Be Giants
1971-06-09
4.9
The Wrong Box
1966-06-19
4.9
The Tamarind Seed
1974-07-11
4.9
Mister Moses
1965-05-12
4.9
Walkabout
1971-07-01
4.9
Night Games
1980-04-11
4.9
Body Heat
1981-08-28
4.9
The Knack... and How to Get It
1965-05-01
4.9
Raise the Titanic
1980-08-01
4.9
Petulia
1968-06-10
4.9
The Quiller Memorandum
1966-11-10
4.9
The L-Shaped Room
1962-11-20
4.9
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977-03-13
4.9
The Gathering
1977-12-04
4.9
The Final Game of Death
2023-07-17
4.9
The Cool Mikado
1963-01-07
4.9
Mercury Rising
1998-04-03
4.9
King Rat
1965-10-27
4.9
Svengali
1983-03-09
4.9
Hammett
1982-06-09
4.9
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1972-11-20
4.9
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981-08-06
4.9
Hanover Street
1979-05-18
4.9
Out of Africa
1985-12-20
4.9
Love Among the Ruins
1975-03-06
4.9
Game of Death Redux
2019-07-20
4.9
The Ipcress File
1965-03-18
4.9
Ruby Cairo
1992-12-12
4.9
Four in the Morning
1965-12-16
4.9
Four in the Morning
1965-12-16
4.9
Mix Me a Person
1962-08-31
4.9
Eleanor and Franklin
1976-01-11
4.9
Born Free
1974-09-09