David Shire
Film score, Theatrical Composer
1937 –
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Who is David Shire?
David Lee Shire is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the soundtrack for Francis Coppola's The Conversation, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz, and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
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- Born
- Jul 3, 1937
Buffalo - Also known as
- David Lee Shire
- Parents
- Spouses
- Talia Shire
(1970/03/29 - 1978) - Didi Conn
(1982 - )
- Talia Shire
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Buffalo
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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