John Barry
Sound
Awards
Won 3 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 3 won
- 1991 Best Original Score Won Dances with Wolves
- 1986 Best Original Score Won Out of Africa
- 1969 Best Original Score, no Musical Won The Lion in Winter
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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.
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Other credits
55 credits
Omnibus
Dances with Wolves
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
You Only Live Twice
A View to a Kill
Indecent Proposal
Octopussy
Thunderball
The Specialist
Mercury Rising
Out of Africa
Diamonds Are Forever
The Man with the Golden Gun
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
Moonraker
Body Heat
Game of Death
Howard the Duck
Midnight Cowboy
The Lion in Winter
The Betsy
King Kong
The Black Hole
Somewhere in Time
Chaplin
The Chase
The Cotton Club
The Deep
Jagged Edge
Peggy Sue Got Married
Zulu
Walkabout
The Scarlet Letter
Hanover Street
Robin and Marian
Playing by Heart
Starcrash
Born Free
The Ipcress File
Born Free
Enigma
Petulia
The White Buffalo
Raise the Titanic
My Life
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Frances
High Road to China
The Tamarind Seed
The Quiller Memorandum
Boom!
Hammett
Monte Walsh
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18 credits
Great Performances
Dr. No
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
Thunderball
Mercury Rising
Out of Africa
The Living Daylights
Midnight Cowboy
Legends
Somewhere in Time
Walkabout
Playing by Heart
Starcrash
The Ipcress File
Murphy's War
Tonight in Person
Frances
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