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Born:
4 December
1910
— Chester, PA
— USA
Died:
8 September
1991
— Los Angeles
— USA
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Music
His best-known film scores are:
- The Rainmaker (1956)
- Spartacus (1960)
- The Misfits (1961)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- The Devil’s Brigade (1968)
His commissioned score for Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) was discarded by the director, but it has now been released on CD,
Life
The American composer and conductor Alex North is mainly known as a film composer. He was nominated for an Oscar 14 times, but never won.
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