Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair "Sandy" Courage Jr. (born December 10, 1919 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 15, 2008 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was a two-time Oscar- nominated American film composer and orchestrator .
Career
Courage studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester , New York . Courage's career as a composer and arranger of film and television music stretched from the late 1950s to the new millennium. He became world famous for the theme song of the series Raumschiff Enterprise , which he composed in just one week in 1965.
In the 1960s, Courage worked alongside Raumschiff Enterprise on other successful television series such as The Seaview - In a Secret Mission and Lost in Space . From the mid-1980s he worked as an arranger for film music, including for Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams . In the course of his career, Courage has received two Oscar nominations and an Emmy in 1988 .
Alexander Courage died on May 15, 2008 in a retirement home in Pacific Palisades / Los Angeles .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
composer
- 1958: One has to believe in it (The Left Handed Gun)
- 1959: Day of the wicked (Day of the Outlaw)
- 1963: My ship goes to you (Follow the Boys)
- 1964: Three Girls in Madrid (The Pleasure Seekers)
- 1964: Goldgräber-Molly (The Unsinkable Molly Brown)
- 1987: Superman IV - The Quest for Peace
Orchestrator
- 1972: The Poseidon Adventure (The Poseidon Adventure)
- 1977: The island of Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau)
- 1992: Basic Instinct
- 1993: Jurassic Park
- 1995: The First Knight
- 1996: Star Trek: First Contact
- 1997: Air Force One
- 1997: LA Confidential
- 1998: Star Trek: Insurrection
- 1999: The Haunting (The Haunting)
- 1999: The 13th Warrior (The 13th Warrior)
- 1999: The Mummy (The Mummy)
- 2000: Hollow Man - Invisible Danger (Hollow Man)
watch TV
- 1964: The Seaview - In a Secret Mission (Voyage to the bottom of the sea)
- 1966: Lost Between Alien Worlds (Lost in Space)
- 1966: Starship Enterprise (Star Trek)
- 1972: The Waltons (The Waltons)
Awards and nominations
- 1966: Oscar nomination for Three Girls in Madrid
- 1968: Oscar nomination for Doctor Dolittle
- 1973: Emmy nomination for Medical Center (TV episode)
- 1987: Emmy nomination for Liberty Weekend (TV movie)
- 1988: Emmy for Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas (together with Ian Fraser , Chris Boardman, and Angela Morley ) (TV movie)
Web links
- Alexander Courage in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Works by and about Alexander Courage in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alexander Courage in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Tagesschau.de ( Memento from January 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 30, 2008.
- ↑ Article at FilmMusicSociety.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Courage, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Courage, Alexander Mair junior (full name); Courage, Sandy (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer of film music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2008 |
| Place of death | Pacific Palisades , Los Angeles, California, United States |