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John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt. Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004). The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979. After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler. In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5. Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators. Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas. He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Debney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- calendar_month Birth Date: 1956-08-18
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- school Known for: Sound
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The Sweatbox
2002-09-13
7.1
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020-10-30
7.2
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017-03-16
6.1
The Strongest Man in the World
1975-02-06
7.1
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006-07-18
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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018-10-20
5.5
Silent Night: A Song for the World
2021-12-19
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5.5
Sin City
2005-04-01
5.5
Bruce Almighty
2003-05-23
5.5
The Passion of the Christ
2004-02-25
5.5
Dragonfly
2002-02-22
5.5
Elf
2003-11-07
5.5
The Replacements
2000-08-11
5.5
The Tuxedo
2002-09-27
5.5
Hocus Pocus
1993-07-16
5.5
Heartbreakers
2001-03-23
5.5
The Whole Ten Yards
2004-04-07
5.5
Barnyard
2006-08-04
5.5
Cats & Dogs
2001-07-04
5.5
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997-10-17
5.5
The Relic
1997-01-10
5.5
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004-08-06
5.5
Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005-11-06
5.5
Snow Dogs
2002-01-18
5.5
Gunmen
1993-05-21
5.5
The Scorpion King
2002-04-18
5.5
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
2005-09-10
5.5
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002-08-07
5.5
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
2001-12-14
5.5
Barnyard
2006-08-04
5.5
The Ant Bully
2006-07-28
5.5
My Best Friend's Girl
2008-09-19
5.5
Predators
2010-07-03
5.5
The Stoning of Soraya M.
2009-06-26
5.5
Chicken Little
2005-11-04
5.5
Duma
2005-04-22
5.5
The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour
1990-04-07
5.5
Jetsons: The Movie
1990-06-06
5.5
Dream House
2011-09-29
5.5
Come Away
2020-11-12
5.5
The Three Stooges
2012-04-13
5.5
Jobs
2013-08-15
5.5
Hypnotic
2023-05-11
5.5
The Call
2013-03-14
5.5
In Pursuit of Honor
1995-03-18
5.5
Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021-11-10
5.5
Kansas
1995-07-27
5.5
The Seed
2008-01-01
5.5
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
1988-04-29
5.5
League of Gods
2016-07-28
5.5
Lost & Found
1999-04-23
5.5
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
1994-04-15
5.5
Jonny's Golden Quest
1993-04-04
5.5
Spy Kids: Armageddon
2023-09-22
5.5
Walk of Shame
2014-05-02
5.5
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
2020-11-06
5.5
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016-06-23
5.5
Running Mates
2000-08-13
5.5
Home Sweet Home Alone
2021-11-11
5.5
Trenchcoat in Paradise
1989-10-18
5.5
Luck
2022-08-05
5.5
Class of '61
1993-04-12
5.5
Lake of Death
2019-11-01
5.5
Hocus Pocus 2
2022-09-27
5.5
Into the Badlands
1991-07-24
5.5
Draft Day
2014-04-11
5.5
American Underdog
2021-12-25
5.5
Under the Boardwalk
2023-10-27
5.5
For Love and Glory
1993-09-11
5.5
End of Days
1999-11-24
5.5
The Hot Chick
2002-12-13
5.5
Justice League of America
1997-12-28
5.5
The Princess Diaries
2001-08-03
5.5
Liar Liar
1997-03-21
5.5
Chameleon
1996-03-26
5.5
The Resurrection of the Christ: Part II
5.5
Runaway Brain
1995-08-11
5.5
Getting Away with Murder
1996-04-12
5.5
Broken Horses
2015-03-15
5.5
The Double
2011-10-27
5.5
Fitness and Me: Why Exercise?
1984-01-01
5.5
Marry Me
2022-02-09
5.5
Dick
1999-08-04
5.5
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999-10-08
5.5
Asteroid Hunters
2020-04-17
5.5
Iron Man 2
2010-04-28
5.5
Spy Kids
2001-03-18
5.5
Meet Dave
2008-07-08
5.5
Alex Cross
2012-10-18
5.5
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000-05-05
5.5
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2025-04-03
5.5
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
2024-06-26
5.5
Scrat: Spaced Out
2016-10-11
5.5
Yogi's Great Escape
1987-11-19
5.5
The Day My Kid Went Punk
1987-10-23
5.5
Keeping Up with the Steins
2006-05-12
5.5
Doctor Who
1996-05-12
5.5
Little Giants
1994-10-14
5.5
Welcome to Mooseport
2004-02-24
5.5
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2015-01-28
5.5
The Emperor's New Groove
2000-12-15
5.5
A Thousand Words
2012-03-07
5.5
Valentine's Day
2010-02-10
5.5
Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009-04-10
5.5
Bad Luck Spot!
2023-03-17
5.5
Swimfan
2002-09-06
5.5
Carpool
1996-08-23
5.5
Doctor Who
1996-05-12
5.5
The Garfield Movie
2024-04-30
5.5
Sudden Death
1995-10-27
5.5
The Flintstones: Hollyrock a Bye Baby
1993-12-05
5.5
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
1999-10-01
5.5
Beirut
2018-04-11
5.5
Isn't It Romantic
2019-02-13
5.5
Swing Vote
2008-08-01
5.5
Flint
2017-10-28
5.5
The Jungle Book
2016-04-07
5.5
The Young Messiah
2016-03-10
5.5
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
2005-12-21
5.5
New Year's Eve
2011-12-08
5.5
The Change-Up
2011-08-05
5.5
80 for Brady
2023-02-03
5.5
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
2005-06-10
5.5
The Cobbler
2014-09-11
5.5
Christmas with the Kranks
2004-11-24
5.5
The Pacifier
2005-03-04
5.5
Relative Values
2000-06-23
5.5
Mother's Day
2016-04-28
5.5
See Spot Run
2001-03-02
5.5
Stonehearst Asylum
2014-10-23
5.5
Georgia Rule
2007-05-10
5.5
Idlewild
2006-08-25
5.5
Inspector Gadget
1999-07-23
5.5
My Favorite Martian
1999-02-11
5.5
Cutthroat Island
1995-12-22
5.5
Paulie
1998-04-17
5.5
Everyone's Hero
2006-08-04
5.5
In Your Dreams
5.5
I'll Be Home for Christmas
1998-11-13
5.5
Aliens in the Attic
2009-07-30
5.5
Yogi Bear
2010-12-17
5.5
Home Again
2017-09-07
5.5
Space Cadet
2024-07-04
5.5
The Greatest Showman
2017-12-20
5.5
Raising Helen
2004-05-27
5.5
No Strings Attached
2011-01-21
5.5
Malibu's Most Wanted
2003-04-10
5.5
Old Dogs
2009-11-24
5.5
The Turn of the Screw
1989-08-12
5.5
Carmilla
1989-09-10
5.5
The Eyes of the Panther
1989-11-26
5.5
Chiefs
2018-01-01
5.5
Sport Goofy in Soccermania
1987-05-27
5.5
Praying Mantis
1993-08-11
5.5
The Garfield Movie
2024-04-30
5.5
Brian Banks
2019-08-09
5.5
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019-08-08
5.5
The Halloween Tree
1993-10-02
5.5
Hotel for Dogs
2009-01-16
5.5
The Beach Bum
2019-03-21
5.5
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997-10-17
5.5
The Relic
1997-01-10
5.5
Liar Liar
1997-03-21
5.5
Sin City
2005-04-01
5.5
Sudden Death
1995-10-27
5.5
Deer in the Works
1980-01-01
5.5
The Resurrection of the Christ
5.5
Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005-11-06
5.5
Komodo
1999-07-04
5.5
Sextuplets
2019-08-16
5.5
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984-11-13
5.5
Sunstroke
1992-09-23
5.5
I Still Believe
2020-03-12
5.5
Backstage at Disney
1983-01-01
5.5
G-Saviour
1999-06-18
5.5
Still Not Quite Human
1992-01-01
5.5
Evan Almighty
2007-06-09
5.5
The Call
2013-03-14
5.5
DTV: Monster Hits
1987-10-30
5.5
The Town Santa Forgot
1993-12-03
5.5
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999-12-06
5.5
Houseguest
1995-01-06
5.5
Rose Petal Place: Real Friends
1985-09-10
5.5
Houdini
2014-09-01
5.5
Point of Honor
2015-01-15
5.5
American Odyssey
2015-04-05
5.5
Fame
1982-01-07
5.5
Texas Rising
2015-05-25
5.5
The Orville
2017-09-10
5.5
Santa Clarita Diet
2017-02-03
5.5
Cagney & Lacey
1982-03-25
5.5
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
2021-03-26
5.5
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993-01-03
5.5
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-09-28
5.5
Against the Grain
1993-10-01
5.5
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990-09-14
5.5
Young Sheldon
2017-09-25