Brad Fiedel
Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York ) is an American film composer . Fiedel composed the music for almost 100 cinema and television films as well as for some television series.
life and work
He started playing the piano at the age of six. In the 1970s he accompanied the pop duo Hall & Oates on tours as a keyboardist . During this time he also began working as a composer for television and for smaller film productions.
His best-known work is the music for the films The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day by the Canadian director James Cameron . The music for Terminator was produced with synthesizers and an electronically amplified violin . This production method was partly due to the limited budget that no symphony orchestra allowed. Despite a much higher budget for Terminator 2 , Fiedel again produced the music for this film mostly electronically , this time with the help of samplers with which he digitized noises (e.g. from machines) and used them as sound material. With this production method, he went against the mainstream of orchestral film music , which he did not consider suitable for this film. He had to convince the initially skeptical Cameron of this.
Fiedel is married to the actress Ann Dusenberry and lives in Santa Barbara , California, where he is particularly involved in voluntary work for the local Waldorf school .
Awards
- ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies .
Film music (selection)
- 1977: Cheer Up (Looking Up)
- 1980: Love after work (Hardhat and Legs)
- 1981: The House of My Dreams (Dream House)
- 1981: The Bunker (The Bunker)
- 1981: The Jean Harris Trial (The People vs. Jean Harris)
- 1981: Terror Eyes - Der Frauenköpfer (Night School)
- 1981: Just Before Dawn
- 1983: At the end of the road (Right of Way)
- 1983: Cocain (Cocaine: One Man's Seduction)
- 1983: Eyes of Fire
- 1983: The Way Through Hell (Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number)
- 1983: The Last Shift (Heart of Steel)
- 1983: Murder in Wrong County ( Murder in Coweta County )
- 1983: Operation Osaka (Girls of the White Orchid)
- 1984: Calendar Girl Murders
- 1984: The fight against hopelessness (Anatomy of an Illness)
- 1984: Terminator ( The Terminator )
- 1985: Fright Night ( Fright Night )
- 1985: American Ice Cream ( Fraternity Vacation )
- 1985: Creeps (The Midnight Hour)
- 1985: The Torment of Uncertainty (Into Thin Air)
- 1985: Compromising Positions
- 1985: Deadly Messages
- 1986: Goodbye America (Under Siege)
- 1986: Harry Holt out ( Let's Get Harry )
- 1986: In the Heat of Nevada (Desert Bloom)
- 1986: Young Streetfighters ( The Brotherhood of Justice )
- 1987: The Big Easy - The Big Easy ( The Big Easy )
- 1988: My Neighbor, the Vampire (Fright night part II)
- 1988: Accused (The Accused)
- 1988: The Serpent and the Rainbow ( Serpent And The Rainbow )
- 1988: Hot Paint (Hot Paint)
- 1989: The Dirty Game ( True Believer )
- 1990: Blue Steel
- 1991: The moon over Plymouth (Plymouth)
- 1991: Terminator 2 - Judgment Day ( Terminator 2: Judgment Day )
- 1992: Fists - You have to fight for your rights ( Gladiator )
- 1993: Karen McCoy - The Cat ( The Real McCoy )
- 1993: Striking Distance ( Striking Distance )
- 1994: Blink - Deadly Moments ( Blink )
- 1994: True Lies ( True Lies )
- 1995: Networked - Johnny Mnemonic ( Johnny Mnemonic )
- 1996: Rasputin
- 1996: T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (short film)
- 1999: Showdown on the Way to Hell ( Purgatory )
- 1999: Countdown to Chaos ( Y2K )
Web links
- Literature by and about Brad Fiedel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brad Fiedel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fiddle, Brad |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiddle, Brad Ira |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |