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Michael Kamen

1948 - 2003

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Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter, and musician. He began his work as a pop and rock music arranger, notably for Pink Floyd, and was a member of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and the Roger Waters Band. Starting in the mid-1980s, he achieved further prominence as a composer of film scores. Kamen's best known scores include the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon franchises, the Terry Gilliam films Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Highlander (1986), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), What Dreams May Come (1998), The Iron Giant (1999), X-Men (2000), and the television series Edge of Darkness, Tales from the Crypt, and Band of Brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Kamen is the 536th most popular composer (down from 529th in 2019), the 2,826th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,436th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michael Kamen ranks 536 out of 1,451. Before him are Pancho Vladigerov, Remo Giazotto, Franz Xaver Richter, Erwin Schulhoff, Terry Riley, and Albert Ketèlbey. After him are Vasily Kalinnikov, Gara Garayev, Henri Duparc, R. D. Burman, Johann Adam Hiller, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach.

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Among people born in 1948, Michael Kamen ranks 172. Before him are Natan Sharansky, Mitsuko Uchida, Rubén Blades, N. T. Wright, Valeri Kharlamov, and Mate Parlov. After him are Cassandra Harris, Rosemary Casals, Jürgen Sparwasser, Kemal Monteno, Oliver Hart, and John Noble. Among people deceased in 2003, Michael Kamen ranks 86. Before him are Mohamed Choukri, Michael Jeter, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Denis Thatcher, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and Rik Van Steenbergen. After him are Kinji Fukasaku, Michael P. Anderson, Janko Bobetko, Martha Scott, Jacques Deray, and Valeriy Brumel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Kamen ranks 2,826 out of 20,380. Before him are Carolyn Jones (1930), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Ron Johnson (1955), Terry Riley (1935), Everett McGill (1945), and Clancy Brown (1959). After him are Ron DeSantis (1978), Emma Stone (1988), Lily Tomlin (1939), Cathy Moriarty (1960), Julia Grant (1826), and Tim Keller (1950).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Michael Kamen ranks 29. Before him are Danny Elfman (1953), James Newton Howard (1951), George Antheil (1900), Bill Conti (1942), Leroy Anderson (1908), and Terry Riley (1935). After him are John Adams (1947), Amy Beach (1867), Morton Feldman (1926), Ernest Guiraud (1837), James Scott (1885), and Stephen Foster (1826).

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