Alex North

American composer

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 received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.

He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained. The song became a standard and one of the most recorded of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • "Virginia Woolf Rock" and SNAP
  • 30 Mile Hike - Part 3
  • 30 Mile Hike - Parts 1 & 2
  • A Gift for Caesar
  • A Night of Death
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Across the Rio Grande
  • Afternoon Coffee
  • All About God
  • All Fall Down
  • Alma's Story/Goodbye Jack
  • Alone
  • Amami, caro
  • Antoine's New Digs
  • Antoine's Playoff Music
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Antony... Wait
  • Apache Death
  • Archer
  • Arrival of the Cardinals
  • Arrivederci
  • Ashamed / Gentlemen
  • Aunt Kate Recalls Parkinson
  • Avinu Malkenu
  • Axel and Tom
  • Back To The Mansion / The Costume
  • Badlands
  • Barn Burners
  • Barricade
  • Basket of Kisses
  • Battle – Part 1/Battle – Part 2
  • Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar
  • Belle Reeve
  • Ben Departs
  • Ben Spies on Lovers
  • Bergin
  • Big Daddy / Crushed
  • Biker's Minuet
  • Biker's Waltz
  • Bishop Peruses Passport
  • Bite The Bullet
  • Blanche
  • Blue Shadows and Purple Hills
  • Boiling Sea
  • Brady on the Run
  • Bridge
  • Burt / End Title
  • Butterfly
  • Caddie
  • Caesar and Cleopatra
  • Caesar's Assassination
  • Caprice
  • Carbo And Luke
  • Caress
  • Carnival Bozo
  • Carny Theme 2
  • Cavalry [After Battle]/Sick Girl
  • Cavalry [Into Positions]
  • Celebration
  • Celia
  • Charlie's Town (The Charleston)
  • Chief Pistolero
  • Children At Play
  • Clay And The Mexican
  • Cleopatra Enters Rome
  • Cleopatra's Barge
  • Click Go the Shears
  • Climb Up the Mountain
  • Colloquy
  • Com'è strano
  • Comes Running
  • Compassion / Compassion for Guido
  • Concern
  • Confession
  • Conflict
  • Confused / Pour me
  • Conscience
  • Continue the Climb
  • Coriolanus
  • Coriolanus: Processional and Fanfare
  • Coronation
  • Cosette Kisses Jean
  • Credits
  • Crown Hit
  • Cue 1
  • Cue 11
  • Cue 12
  • Cue 12D / 13
  • Cue 15
  • Cue 16
  • Cue 2
  • Cue 3
  • Cue 4
  • Cue 5
  • Cue 6
  • Cue 8
  • Dance of the Dead
  • Deadly Quest
  • Death
  • Death Scene
  • Death of Eufemio
  • Death of the Flute Player
  • Deborah/Indians Arrive
  • Deborah’s Book
  • Decision
  • Della robia blue
  • Desperate
  • Desperate Straits
  • Down Girl / Ashamed
  • Driving Through New Zealand
  • Drums No. 1
  • Drums No. 2
  • Drums No. 4 (Version 2)
  • Drums No. 5 (Version 1)
  • Drums No. 5 (Version 2)
  • Drums [Proposal For Peace – Alternate]
  • Drums [Proposal For Peace]
  • Dunkirk Revisited
  • Dying Is Less Than Love
  • Dénouement
  • Eat Meat and the Kill
  • Echo
  • Ellen's Theme
  • Empty Bottles
  • Encounter
  • End Credits
  • End Title
  • End Title (The Wonderful Country)
  • End Title (original version)
  • End Title and Cast
  • End Title*
  • Entr’acte
  • Epilogue
  • Epilogue (Act 1)
  • Eufemio
  • Eula
  • Fantine Collapses
  • Final Lap
  • Finale / "The Maple Leaf Forever"
  • Fire
  • Flibberti Gibbet
  • Lust
  • Rome
  • Spartacus
  • Unchained Melody