Alex North
Film score, Composer
1910 – 1991
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Who was Alex North?
Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award.
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- Born
- Dec 4, 1910
Chester - Also known as
- Isadore Soifer
- Mr. North
- Spouses
- Gladlynne Sherle Treihart
(1941 - 1966) - Annemarie Hoellger
( - 1991/09/08) - Anna Sokolow
- Gladlynne Sherle Treihart
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Russian Jew
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Curtis Institute of Music
Piano - Juilliard School
Musical composition
(1929 - 1932) - Moscow Conservatory
Musical composition
(1932 - 1935)
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Ridgefield
- Pacific Palisades
( - 1991/09/08)
- Died
- Sep 8, 1991
Pacific Palisades
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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