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Alex North | |
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| Birth name | Isadore Soifer |
| Born | December 4, 1910 Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | September 8, 1991 (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Film score, theatre, classical rock, jazz rock |
| Occupation | 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?[1] 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.[2]
He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained.[3] 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.[4]
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 308/9. ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ^ "Alex North papers". Academy Collection.
- ^ "Unchained". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
- ^ "Unchained Melody". Unchained Melody Publishing LLC. Archived from the original on 9 December 2024.