Alex North

Sound Dec 4, 1910 Sep 8, 1991 (aged 81) Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

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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2 Acting Credits

78 Crew Credits

Acting

Movie

Making 'The Misfits'

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Movie

North and the Music of the South

as Self (archive footage)

Original Music Composer

1958