Alex North
Personal information
- Known for
- Sound
- Known credits
- 80
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- December 4, 1910
- Died
- September 8, 1991
- Place of birth
- Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Isadore Soifer
Biography
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 was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations.
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