This is a list of compositions by composer, orchestrator and conductor Elmer Bernstein.
He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including: Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), Ghostbusters (1984), The Black Cauldron (1985), The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and Far from Heaven (2002).
Filmography Source: Turner Classic Movies
1950s Year Title Director1951 Saturday's Hero 1952 Battles of Chief Pontiac 1952 Sudden Fear 1953 Cat-Women of the Moon 1953 Never Wave at a WAC 1953 Robot Monster 1954 Silent Raiders 1955 The Eternal Sea 1955 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 The View from Pompey's Head 1956 The Ten Commandments 1957 Men in War 1957 Drango 1957 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 The Tin Star 1958 Desire Under the Elms 1958 Kings Go Forth 1958 God's Little Acre 1958 The Buccaneer 1958 Some Came Running 1959 The Miracle
1960s Year Title Director Latest release1960 The Story on Page One 1960 The Magnificent Seven John Sturges Quartet Records / QR508 / 20221960 The Rat Race 1960 From the Terrace 1961 The Comancheros 1961 By Love Possessed 1961 The Young Doctors 1961 Summer and Smoke 1962 Walk on the Wild Side Edward Dmytryk Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 20141962 Birdman of Alcatraz John Frankenheimer 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 20141962 A Girl Named Tamiko John Sturges 1963 Kings of the Sun 1963 The Caretakers 1963 The Great Escape 1963 Love with the Proper Stranger 1963 Hud 1964 The World of Henry Orient George Roy Hill 1964 The Carpetbaggers Edward Dmytryk Intrada Special Collection / Volume 262 / 20141965 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 The Hallelujah Trail 1965 Baby the Rain Must Fall 1966 7 Women 1966 The Silencers 1966 Cast A Giant Shadow 1966 Hawaii 1966 Return of the Seven Burt Kennedy Quartet Records / QR508 / 20221967 Thoroughly Modern Millie 1968 The Scalphunters Sydney Pollack Quartet Records / QR500 / 20221968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 1968 Powers of Ten 1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven Paul Wendkos Quartet Records / QR508 / 20221969 True Grit 1969 The Bridge at Remagen 1969 The Gypsy Moths
1970s Year Title Director Latest Release1970 The Liberation of L.B. Jones 1970 Cannon for Cordoba 1970 A Walk in the Spring Rain 1971 Big Jake 1971 Doctors' Wives 1971 See No Evil 1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden 1973 Cahill U.S. Marshal 1973 The Magnificent Seven Ride! George McCowan Quartet Records / QR508 / 20221974 Gold 1974 McQ 1974 Nightmare Honeymoon 1974 The Trial of Billy Jack 1975 Mr Quilp 1975 Report to the Commissioner 1976 From Noon Till Three 1976 The Incredible Sarah 1976 The Shootist 1977 Billy Jack Goes to Washington 1977 Slap Shot 1977 Powers of Ten 1978 National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 Bloodbrothers 1978 Casey's Shadow rejected score, replaced by Patrick Williams1979 Zulu Dawn 1979 The Great Santini 1979 Meatballs
1980s Year Title Director Notes1980 Airplane! David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker1980 The Blues Brothers John Landis "God Music" composer only1980 Saturn 3 Stanley Donen1981 Heavy Metal Gerald Potterton Bernstein's first score for an animated film1981 Honky Tonk Freeway 1981 Going Ape! 1981 The Chosen 1981 An American Werewolf in London John Landis1981 Stripes Ivan Reitman1982 Genocide 1982 Five Days One Summer 1982 Our House 1982 Airplane II: The Sequel Ken Finkleman1983 Michael Jackson's Thriller 1983 Class 1983 Trading Places John Landis1983 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1984 Prince Jack 1984 Marie Ward 1984 Bolero 1984 Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman1985 The Black Cauldron Ted BermanRichard Rich1985 Spies Like Us John Landis1985 The Journey of Natty Gann rejected score, replaced by James Horner1986 ¡Three Amigos! John Landis1986 Legal Eagles Ivan Reitman1987 Leonard Part 6 1987 Amazing Grace and Chuck 1988 Funny Farm George Roy Hill1988 The Good Mother 1988 A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon international version1988 Da 1989 My Left Foot Jim Sheridan1989 Slipstream Steven Lisberger
1990s Year Title Director/Notes1990 The Field Jim Sheridan1990 The Grifters Stephen Frears1991 Cape Fear Martin Scorsese1991 Rambling Rose Martha Coolidge1991 A Rage in Harlem 1991 Oscar John Landis1992 A River Runs Through It rejected score, replaced by Mark Isham1992 Innocent Blood rejected score, replaced by Ira Newborn1993 Mad Dog and Glory 1993 The Age of Innocence Martin Scorsese1993 Lost in Yonkers 1993 The Cemetery Club 1993 The Good Son Joseph Ruben1995 Roommates 1995 The Scarlet Letter rejected score, replaced by John Barry1995 Search and Destroy 1995 Canadian Bacon 1995 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Frankie Starlight 1996 Bulletproof 1996 I Love Trouble rejected score, replaced by David Newman1997 Buddy 1997 The Rainmaker Francis Ford Coppola1997 Hoodlum 1998 Twilight Robert Benton1999 Bringing Out the Dead Martin Scorsese1999 Wild Wild West Barry Sonnenfeld1999 The Deep End of the Ocean
2000s Year Title Director Notes 2000 Keeping the Faith Edward Norton 2002 Far from Heaven Todd Haynes 2002 Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese rejected score, replaced by Howard Shore
Television films and series Source: Turner Classic Movies
1950s General Electric Theater (1958–59; 8 episodes) Johnny Staccato (1959–60; 23 episodes) Riverboat (1959–60; 18 episodes)
1960s The Beachcomber (1962; 13 episodes) The Dick Powell Show (1962; 1 episode) The DuPont Show of the Week (1962; 1 episode) The Making of the President, 1960 (1963; Television film) Hollywood and the Stars (1963–64; 7 episodes) National Geographic Specials (1966; 1 episode) ABC Stage 67 (1966–67; 2 episodes) The Big Valley (1967–68; 24 episodes) Julia (1968–70; 60 episodes)
1970s Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1971–74; 20 episodes) Gunsmoke (1972; 1 episode) The Rookies (1972–74; 12 episodes) Ellery Queen (1975–76; 17 episodes) Serpico (1976; Pilot episode, two more episodes, and series' main theme) Captains and the Kings (1976; Miniseries – 8 episodes) Once An Eagle (1976–77; Miniseries – 7 episodes) Seventh Avenue (1977; Miniseries – 2 episodes) Little Women (1978; Miniseries – 2 episodes) The Chisholms (1979; Miniseries – 4 episodes)
1980s Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980; Television film) This Year's Blonde (1980; Television film) Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1983; 1 episode) Gulag (1985; Television film)
1990s Murder in Mississippi (1990 Television film) (Rejected Score) The Bogie Man (1992; Television film) Fallen Angels (1993–95; 10 episodes) Rough Riders (1997; Miniseries – 2 episodes) Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999; Television film)
2000s Cecil B. De Mille – American Epic (2004; Television film)
Theatre Peter Pan (1954) – composer of incidental music How Now, Dow Jones (1967) – Composer – Tony co-nomination for Best Musical, Tony co-nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist Merlin (1982) – composer and incidental-music composer – Tony co-nomination for Best Composer and Lyricist
Source: Playbill
Concert works Woodstock Fair (1948) Pennsylvania Overture (1958) Concertino for Ondes Martenot (1983) Songs of Love and Loathing (1990) Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (1999) Fanfare for the Hollywood Bowl (2004) Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography
Hit records The Man With the Golden Arm soundtrack (1956, no. 2 on Billboard charts) Walk on the Wild Side soundtrack (1962, no. 33) Walk on the Wild Side single (1962, Brook Benton, no. 43) Walk on the Wild Side single (1962, Jimmy Smith, no. 21) The Great Escape soundtrack (1963, no. 50) Love With the Proper Stranger single (1964, Jack Jones, no. 63) Baby, the Rain Must Fall single (1965, Glenn Yarbrough, no. 12) True Grit single (1969, Glen Campbell, no. 35) Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984, no. 6)
Source: Elmer Bernstein: Discography
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