Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein (New York, 4 april 1922 – Ojai (Californië), 18 augustus 2004) was een Amerikaanse componist die vooral bekend werd door zijn muziek voor de films The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Ten Commandments, The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters en The Great Escape.

In de jaren vijftig was hij een van de slachtoffers van senator Joseph McCarthys acties tegen kunstenaars met linkse sympathieën. Hij belandde op de 'grijze lijst', zodat hij geen grote opdrachten meer kreeg.

Bernstein was bevriend met, maar geen familie van, collega-componist Leonard Bernstein.

Hij overleed in zijn slaap in zijn huis in Ojai, Californië.

Filmografie 
 1951: Saturday's Hero
 1952: Boots Malone
 1952: Sudden Fear
 1952: Battles of Chief Pontiac
 1953: Never Wave at a WAC
 1953: Robot Monster
 1953: Cat-Women of the Moon
 1954: Make Haste to Live
 1954: Silent Raiders
 1954: Miss Robin Crusoe
 1955: The Eternal Sea (Alarm in de Pacific)
 1955: The View from Pompey's Head (De baai der geheimen)
 1955:  The Man with the Golden Arm
 1955: Storm Fear
 1955: It's a Dog's Life
 1956: The Ten Commandments (De Tien Geboden)
 1957: Drango
 1957: Men in War
 1957: Fear Strikes Out
 1957: Sweet Smell of Success
 1957: The Tin Star
 1958: Desire Under the Elms
 1958 Saddle the Wind
 1958: Kings Go Forth (Rivalen zien niet om)
 1958: God's Little Acre
 1958: Anna Lucasta
 1958: The Buccaneer
 1958: Some Came Running
 1959: The Miracle
 1959: The Story on Page One
 1960: The Rat Race
 1960: From the Terrace
 1960: The Magnificent Seven
 1961: By Love Possessed (Onteerd)
 1961: The Young Doctors
 1961: The Comancheros
 1961: Summer and Smoke
 1962: Walk on the Wild Side
 1962: Birdman of Alcatraz
 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
 1962: A Girl Named Tamiko
 1963: Hud
 1963: The Great Escape
 1963: The Caretakers
 1963: Rampage
 1963: Kings the Sun
 1963: Love with the Proper Stranger
 1964: The World of Henry Oriënt
 1964: The Carpetbaggers
 1965: Baby the Rain Must Fall
 1965: The Hallelujah Trail (De Whisky Karavaan)
 1965: The Sons of Katie Elder
 1965: The Reward
 1966: 7 Women
 1966: The Silencers
 1966: Cast a Giant Shadow (De Ongelooflijke Overwinning)
 1966: Hawaii
 1966: Return of the Seven
 1967: Thoroughly Modern Millie
 1967: The Scalphunters
 1967: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
 1969: Where's Jack?
 1969: Midas Run
 1969: True Grit
 1969: The Bridge at Remagen
 1969: Guns of the Magnificent Seven
 1969: The Gypsy Moths
 1970: The Liberation of L.B. Jones
 1970: A Walk in the Spring Rain
 1970: Cannon for Cordoba
 1971: Doctors' Wives
 1971: Big Jake
 1971: Blind Terror
 1972: The Magnificent Seven Ride!
 1972: The Amazing Mr. Blunden
 1973: Cahill U.S. Marshal
 1974: McQ
 1974: Gold
 1974: Nightmare Honeymoon
 1974: The Trail of Billy Jack
 1975: Report to the Commissioner
 1975: The Old Curiosity Shop
 1976: The Shootist
 1976: From Noon Till Three
 1976: The Incredible Sarah
 1977: Billy Jack Goes to Washington
 1977: The Look of America
 1977: Daumier: Paris and the Spectator
 1978: Animal House
 1978: Bloodbrothers
 1979: Zulu Dawn
 1979: Meatballs
 1979: The Great Santini
 1980: Saturn 3
 1980: The Blues Brothers
 1980: Airplane!
 1981: Going Ape!
 1981: Stripes
 1981: Heavy Metal
 1981: The Chosen
 1981: Honky Tonk Freeway
 1981: An American Werewolf in London
 1982: Five Days One Summer
 1982: Airplane II: The Sequel 1983: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1983: Trading Places 1983: Class 1984: Ghostbusters
 1985: Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
 1985: The Black Cauldron (Taran en de Toverketel)
 1985: Prince Jack
 1985: Spies Like Us
 1986: Legal Eagles
 1986: ¡Three Amigos!
 1987: Amazing Grace and Chuck
 1987: Leonard Part 6
 1988: Da
 1988: Funny Farm
 1988: The Good Mother
 1989: Slipstream
 1989: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
 1990: The Field
 1990: The Grifters
 1990: One Day in Dallas
 1991: Oscar
 1991: A Rage in Harlem
 1991: Rambling Rose
 1991: Cape Fear
 1992: The Babe
 1993: The Cemetery Club
 1993: Mad Dog and Glory
 1993: Lost in Yonkers
 1993: The Age of Innocence
 1993: The Good Son
 1995: Roommates
 1995: Search and Destroy
 1995: Canadian Bacon
 1995: Frankie Starlight
 1995: Devil in a Blue Dress
 1996: Buttetproof
 1997: Buddy
 1997: Hoodlum
 1997: The Rainmaker
 1998: Twilight
 1999: The Deep End of the Ocean
 1999: Wild Wild West
 1999: Bringing Out the Dead
 2000: Keeping the Faith
 2000: Chinese Coffee
 2002: Far from Heaven
 2007: Return of the Ghostbusters (themes, overige Jon Vandergriff)

Overige producties

Computerspellen 
 1999: Wild, Wild West: The Steel Assassin
 2009: Ghostbusters (themes, overige Kyle Richards)

Televisieseries 
 1959: Johnny Staccato (1959 - 1960)
 1959: Riverboat (1959 - 1960)
 1963: Hollywood and the Stars (1963 - 1964)
 1967: The Big Valley (1967 - 1968)
 1971: Appointment with Destiny (1971 - 1973)
 1971: Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971 - 1974)
 1972: The Rookies (1972 - 1974)
 1975: Ellery Queen (1975 - 1976)
 1976: Captains and the Kings (miniserie)

Documentaires 
 1960: The Fabulous Fifties
 1963: The Making of the President 1960
 1964: Four Days in November
 1970: Kifaru... The Black Rhino
 1982: Genocide

Werken voor harmonieorkest 
 The Great Escape March
 Selectie uit de film "The Magnificent Seven"

Prijzen en nominaties

Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Grammy Awards

Externe links 
 
 Officiële website
 Elmer Bernstein Box Office Mojo

Amerikaans componist
20e-eeuws componist
Filmcomponist