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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]
- Music Division, Library of Congress
My first novel as Alex North, The Whisper Man, was a Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller. It has been translated into over 30 languages and is currently being adapted for film. It was followed by The Shadow Friend. My most recent thriller is The Half Burnt House.
This category is for films featuring music scored by Alex North.
Nov 6, 2023 · The movie will adapt the horror/thriller novel by Alex North of the same name, released in June 2019. A logline for the movie is as follows: “A recently widowed man and his young son move in to a new house, where they become the latest family cuaght up in a string of disappearances of young boys going back decades.”.
"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), [1] hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. [2]
Alex North Biography (1910-1991) Born December 4, 1910, in Chester, PA; died of pancreatic cancer, September 8, 1991, in Los Angeles, CA; son of Jesse (a blacksmith) and Bela (Suifer) North; married Annemarie Hollger, c. 1940; children: Steven, Elissa, Dylan.
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Alex North was Oscar-nominated fifteen times but only received the coveted statuette as a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1986. Born December 4, 1910 Died September 8, 1991 (80)
