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Alex North

1910 - 1991

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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? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer. He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained. The song became a standard and one of the most recorded of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alex North is the 634th most popular composer (up from 670th in 2019), the 3,417th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,181st in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alex North ranks 634 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Caspar Kerll, Franz Waxman, Stephen Foster, Jean-Féry Rebel, Ludwig Senfl, and Felip Pedrell. After him are Johan Helmich Roman, Wolfgang Schmieder, John Taverner, Georgy Sviridov, Pierre Henry, and Malcolm Arnold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Alex North ranks 120. Before him are Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Sylvester Stadler, Kenneth E. Boulding, Bernard Voorhoof, Félix Candela, and Artie Shaw. After him are Sylvia Sidney, Saint Alphonsa, Fritz Leiber, Bill Pickering, Jane Bell, and Heinz Hoffmann. Among people deceased in 1991, Alex North ranks 90. Before him are Shintaro Abe, Ho Jong-suk, Berenice Abbott, Kevin Peter Hall, Vasko Popa, and Edmond Jabès. After him are Andrzej Panufnik, Yasushi Inoue, Schubert Gambetta, Mikheil Meskhi, Gino Colaussi, and Richard Thorpe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex North ranks 3,417 out of 20,380. Before him are Lionel Hampton (1908), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), and Randy Quaid (1950). After him are Sal Khan (1976), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Trini Lopez (1937), Florence Harding (1860), Babushka Lady (1930), and James Bond (1900).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alex North ranks 36. Before him are John Adams (1947), Amy Beach (1867), Morton Feldman (1926), Ernest Guiraud (1837), James Scott (1885), and Stephen Foster (1826). After him are Basil Poledouris (1945), Jerome Kern (1885), Carmine Coppola (1910), Lee Konitz (1927), Sun Ra (1914), and Stephen Sondheim (1930).

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