Alex North
Alex North
Alex Northwas 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 was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth4 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
resulting
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
few musical
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
friday tuesday records
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
writing people recycling
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
hero film spartacus
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
film best-film composing
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.