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Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor who composed music for over 200 films and television shows. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won an Oscar for his score for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967. He also won two Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards. He was known for his work on films such as The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Ghostbusters. He was also a prolific composer for television, writing music for shows such as The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, and The Virginian. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He died in 2004 at the age of 82.

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Occupation music_department,composer,soundtrack
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April, 1922
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Date of death 18 August, 2004
Died Place Ojai, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Elmer Bernstein's Wife?

His wife is Eve Adamson (25 October 1965 - 18 August 2004) ( his death) ( 2 children), Pearl Glusman (21 December 1946 - 1965) ( divorced) ( 2 children)

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Wife Eve Adamson (25 October 1965 - 18 August 2004) ( his death) ( 2 children), Pearl Glusman (21 December 1946 - 1965) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
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Elmer Bernstein Net Worth

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2003

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 35-37. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.

1996

Bernstein wrote unused scores for Last Man Standing (1996), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), The Scarlet Letter (1995) and Gangs of New York (2002). All have been released on CD.

1980

In his scores, especially in the 1980s, he often used the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument, invented in France in 1928. Its ethereal singing sound can be prominently heard, for example, on My Left Foot (1989) and Ghostbusters (1984).

1968

Was nominated for three Tony Awards: two in 1968 for "How Now, Dow Jones". as Best Composer and Lyricist, with his collaborator Carolyn Leigh, and for his music as part of a Best Musical nomination; and in 1983 for "Merlin", as Best Score, his music with lyrics by Don Black.

1967

He was nominated for Academy Awards 14 times but won only once, ironically for one of his less acclaimed scores - Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).

1963

Vice-President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) from 1963 - 1969.

1955

Elmer Bernstein was educated at the Walden School and New York University. He served in the US Army Air Corps in World War II. A prolific and respected film music composer, he was a protégé of Aaron Copland, who studied music with Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe. Bernstein worked in various artistic endeavors, including painting and the theatre and also performed as an actor and dancer. Among his early composition work were scores for United Nations radio programs and television and industrial documentaries. His original scores for films range over an enormous variety of styles, with his groundbreaking jazz score for The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), light musical comedies such as his Oscar-winning Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) score, and perhaps his most familiar score, for the western The Magnificent Seven (1960).

1953

In 1953, he was doing scores for such notorious ultra-low-budget films as the infamous Robot Monster (1953) and Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Only three years later, he was doing the score for Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).

1950

He is the only individual to be nominated for an Academy Award in each of the last six decades: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.