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Quiz Monkey |
| Piece by Barber, used in both The Elephant Man and Platoon |
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Adagio for Strings |
| Theme from The Deer Hunter (1978): originally written for piano by the British composer Stanley Myers, and used in the 1970 film The Walking Stick (starring David Hemmings and Samantha Eggar); rearranged for guitar at the suggestion of John Williams, who had a UK Top 20 hit with it in 1979. Also a Top 10 hit for the Shadows (as Theme from The Deer Hunter) and a Top 20 hit for Iris Williams (as He Was Beautiful, with words written by Cleo Laine, accompanied by John Williams) | | Cavatina |
| Famous duet from Deliverance (1972), played by Billy Redden and Ronny Cox. The subsequent hit version by Steve Mandell and Eric Weissberg won the 1974 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance. (Based on a tune composed in 1955 by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, using phrases from Yankee Doodle; Smith was not credited in the film and successfully sued for plagiarism) |
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Dueling Banjos |
| Theme tune of The Sting (Scott Joplin piano rag) |
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The Entertainer |
| Made into a No. 1 hit by Four Weddings and a Funeral |
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Love is All Around |
| Simon & Garfunkel song, appears tree times in The Graduate (1968) – including over the opening and closing credits | |
The Sound of Silence |
| Song by Stealers Wheel, used in a notorious torture scene in Reservoir Dogs |
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Stuck in the Middle with You |
| The Third Man: theme tune played on a |
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Zither |
| 1992 film: original soundtrack (credited to Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston) sold more copies than any other |
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The Bodyguard |
| Colonel Bogey (adapted by Malcolm Arnold) was used as theme music to |
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Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell): composed for |
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Dangerous Moonlight |
| Cavatina (Stanley Myers) was the theme tune to |
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The Deer Hunter |
| Lara's theme was the theme tune to |
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Doctor Zhivago |
| 1967 Swedish film (telling the tragic, true story of a Danish circus performer) – most famous for its use of the Andante from Mozart's 21st piano concerto |
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Elvira Madigan |
| Featured the main theme from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells |
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The Exorcist |
| Queen's ninth studio album was the soundtrack to (1980 science fiction film) |
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Flash Gordon |
| Unsuccessful Paul McCartney film that included the song No More Lonely Nights |
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Give My Regards to Broad Street |
| A Kind of Magic was written by Roger Taylor (of Queen) for (1986 film) |
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Highlander |
| My Heart Will Go On is the theme song from (1997 film) |
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Titanic |
| Famously used extracts from Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz – for sequences of primitive man learning how to use tools, and spacecraft moving in space, respectively | | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Genevieve (1953) – composer and performer (harmonica virtuoso) |
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Larry Adler |
| Arranged Monty Norman's James Bond theme (first used in Dr. No, 1962); wrote the scores to 11 Bond movies, from From Russia with Love (1963) to The Living Daylights (1987); also over 80 other films, including Born Free (1963), Zulu (1964), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Out of Africa (1985) and Dances with Wolves (1990); also wrote several TV themes, including Juke Box Jury and The Persuaders!; died 2011 aged 77 |
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John Barry |
| On the waterfront: score (his only original film score) |
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Leonard Bernstein |
| Night Mail (1936 GPO documentary) |
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Benjamin Britten |
| The Dam Busters: music (including the famous march) composed by |
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Eric Coates |
| Composed music for at least 16 Tim Burton films, including Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dumbo (2019); also several by Sam Raimi, including Spider–Man (2002) and its 2004 sequel; as well as themes to television programmes Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons |
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Danny Elfman |
| Stagecoach, Planet of the Apes, Sleeping with the Enemy |
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Jerry Goldsmith |
| Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines |
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Ron Goodwin |
| Shaft: music composed by |
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Isaac Hayes |
| Psycho: score |
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Bernard Hermann |
| Won Oscars for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song, in 1998, for Titanic (which became the best–selling film soundtrack of all time; the song was My Heart Will Go On – lyrics by Will Jennings); also composed the music for The Lady in Red (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Avatar (2009); died in 2015, aged 61, when his private plane crashed in California (he was the only person on board) | |
James Horner |
| The Italian Job: score (including the song On days like these) by |
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Quincy Jones |
| The Third Man: music composed (and played on zither) by |
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Anton Karas |
| Gumshoe, The Odessa file: scores |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Music featured in Death in Venice (1971, starring Dirk Bogarde) |
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Gustav Mahler |
| Music for the Pink Panther movies (including the famous theme tune) |
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Henry Mancini |
| Title songs of Born Free and The Italian job (On days like these): sung by |
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Matt Monro |
| Music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and other spaghetti westerns; also The Mission |
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Ennio Morricone |
| Scores to Toy Story (and sequels – 1995–2019), A Bug's Life (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001, and 2013 sequel); Cars (2006), Cars 3 (2017) |
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Randy Newman |
| James Bond theme: composed by (see also John Barry) |
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Monty Norman |
| The Piano (1993) |
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Michael Nyman |
| Music used in The Exorcist |
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Mike Oldfield |
| Wrote and performed (and had a no. 1 hit with) the theme song to Ghostbusters |
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Ray Parker Jr. |
| 2nd piano concerto used in Brief Encounter (1945), 3rd in Shine (1996) |
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Sergei Rachmaninov |
| Organ symphony featured prominently in Babe (1995) |
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Saint–Saens |
| Canadian composer of the music for Peter Jackson's two Tolkien trilogies; also for all but one of David Cronenberg' films since 1979 (up to 2024), and six of Martin Scorsese's |
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Howard Shore |
| Music for the 1951 film The Unforgettable Year 1919 – "an important representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality" – including the piece known as The Assault on Beautiful Gorky | |
Dmitri Shostakovich |
| A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum: score by |
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Stephen Sondheim |
| Casablanca, Gone with the Wind: scores |
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Max Steiner |
| Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner |
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Vangelis |
| Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1955) – all directed by Laurence Olivier |
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Sir William Walton |
| The 49th Parallel, Scott of the Antarctic |
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R. Vaughan Williams |
| Lauren Bacall's singing voice in To Have and Have Not |
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Andy Williams |
| Star Wars, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, and other Spielberg films |
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John Williams |
| Rain Man (1988), The Lion King (1994 and 2019), Gladiator (2000), Dark Knight trilogy (2005–12), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean (three films, 2006–11), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Dunkirk (2017) |
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Hans Zimmer |
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