Alex North

Alex North

American composer (1910–1991)

Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 29 films (1937–1974) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 2 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1974 Shanks William Castle Productions, Inc 93 min Color sound
1969 Hard Contract. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 106 min 35mm Color sound
1968 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf Mary Jean Parson & Alix Jeffry 131 min 8mm B&W sound
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Chenault Productions 2:11:00 16mm B&W sound
1962 All fall down. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & John Houseman Productions Inc. 4:00 35mm B&W sound
1961 The children's hour 1961) (United Artists An MGM Company 1:47:00 16mm B&W sound
1961 The misfits Seven Arts Productions presents ; produced by Frank E. Taylor ; directed by John Huston ; screenplay by Arthur Miller. 124 16mm B&W sound
1960 Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 197 min Color
1960 Spartacus. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. & Byrna Productions Inc. 197 min 35mm Color sound
1960 The Misfits Films inc. 124 mi 16mm B&W sound
1959 The Sound and the Fury Jerry Wald Productions 1:55:00 16mm Color sound
1959 The sound and the fury. Jerry Wald Productions Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 115 min 35mm Color sound
1958 Hot Spell George Cukor, Daniel Mann 86 min 16mm B&W
1958 Stage struck. RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc. 95 min. 35mm Color sound
1958 The Long, Hot Summer. Jerry Wald Productions Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 117 min 35mm Color sound
1956 Four Girls In Town. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 85 min. 35mm Color sound
1955 DADDY LONG LEGS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 126 min 35mm Color sound
1955 I'll cry tomorrow Daniel Mann 117 min B&W
1954 Go Man Go. Sirod Productions Inc. 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1952 Pony Soldier. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 82 min. 35mm Color sound
1951 A Streetcar named Desire united artists 122 mi 16mm B&W sound
1951 Death Of A Salesman McGraw-Hill Films 108 min 16mm Color & B&W sound
1951 The 13th Letter. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 85 min. 35mm B&W sound
1938 People Of The Cumberland STEBBINS (ROBERT) AND EUGENE HILL 18 min 16mm B&W sound
1938 PEOPLE OF THE CUMBERLAND Brandon Films, Inc 18min 16mm B&W Sound
1937 Heart of Spain. Frontier Films ; documented in Spain by Herbert Kline, Geza Karpathi ; material scenarized and edited by Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz. 425 16mm B&W silent
1937 PEOPLE OF THE CUMBERLAND Sidney Meyers, Elia Kazan, Jay Leyda B&W
1937 People of the Cumberland ▶ Sidney Meyers, Elia Kazan, Jay Leyda B&W
1937 People of the Cumberland. Sidney Meyers, Elia Kazan, Jay Leyda 16mm B&W sound