Alex North
Biography
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), 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. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
The score of Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire is analyzed.