John Williams
Film score, Composer
1932 –
Who is John Williams?
John Towner Williams, Jr. is an American composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest film composers of all time. In a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, the first three Harry Potter films, Catch Me If You Can, Memoirs of a Geisha, War Horse, and Lincoln. He has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg, composing the music for all but one of Spielberg's major feature length films.
Other notable works by Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the NBC Nightly News, the Statue of Liberty's rededication, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the original, not as well known calypso-based theme song to Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concerti, and he served as the Boston Pops Orchestra's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993; he is now the orchestra's conductor laureate.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1932
Flushing - Also known as
- ジョン ウィリアムズ
- John Towner Williams
- John T. Williams Jr.
- Johnny Williams
- John Williams Jr.
- John T. Williams
- Pops
- John Towner Williams, Jr.
- Parents
- Spouses
- Samantha Winslow
(1980/07/21 - ) - Barbara Ruick
(1956/04/15 - 1974/03/03)
- Samantha Winslow
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- North Hollywood High School
( - 1950) - Juilliard School
- Lived in
- New York City
- Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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