John Barry
Personal Info
Known for
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-11-03
Day of Death
2011-01-30 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
John Barry
Biography
John Barry Prendergast OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.
He composed the scores for eleven of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, as well as arranging and performing the "James Bond Theme" for the first film in the series, 1962's Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the scores of The Scarlet Letter; Chaplin; The Cotton Club; The Tamarind Seed; Mary, Queen of Scots; Game of Death; and the theme for the television series The Persuaders!, in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed with an OBE for services to music.
Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years.
Barry received awards including five Academy Awards: two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. Barry completed his last film score, Enigma, in 2001 and recorded the successful album Eternal Echoes the same year. He then concentrated chiefly on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 alongside Don Black.
In 2001, Barry became a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011.
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Acting
(2022)
The Sound of 007
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Everything or Nothing
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Lights, Action, Music
as Self
(2004)
(2003)
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Self
(2000)
(2000)
(2000)
Inside 'Dr. No'
as Self
(2000)
Harry Saltzman: Showman
as Self
(2000)
(2000)
A Song of Africa
as Self
(2000)
(2000)
Back To "Somewhere In Time"
as Self
(1999)
(1997)
(1995)
(1995)
(1968)
Deadfall
as Orchestra Conductor
(1958)
6.5 Special
as Himself
Crew
(2023)
The Final Game of Death
Original Music Composer
(2019)
Game of Death Redux
Original Music Composer
(2003)
(2001)
Enigma
Original Music Composer
(2000)
(1998)
Playing by Heart
Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
(1998)
Swept from the Sea
Original Music Composer
(1998)
Mercury Rising
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1995)
The Scarlet Letter
Original Music Composer
(1995)
(1995)
Cry, the Beloved Country
Original Music Composer
(1994)
The Specialist
Original Music Composer
(1993)
Indecent Proposal
Original Music Composer
(1993)
My Life
Original Music Composer
(1992)
Chaplin
Original Music Composer
(1992)
Ruby Cairo
Original Music Composer
(1990)
Dances with Wolves
Original Music Composer
(1990)
(1988)
Masquerade
Original Music Composer
(1987)
The Living Daylights
Original Music Composer
(1987)
Hearts of Fire
Original Music Composer
(1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married
Original Music Composer
(1986)
Howard the Duck
Original Music Composer
(1985)
Out of Africa
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1985)
A View to a Kill
Original Music Composer
(1985)
A Killing Affair
Original Music Composer
(1985)
Jagged Edge
Original Music Composer
(1984)
The Cotton Club
Original Music Composer
(1984)
Mike's Murder
Original Music Composer
(1984)
Until September
Original Music Composer
(1983)
Octopussy
Original Music Composer
(1983)
High Road to China
Original Music Composer
(1983)
The Golden Seal
Music
(1983)
Svengali
Original Music Composer
(1982)
Frances
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1982)
Murder by Phone
Original Music Composer
(1982)
Hammett
Original Music Composer
(1981)
Body Heat
Original Music Composer
(1981)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Original Music Composer
(1980)
Somewhere in Time
Original Music Composer
(1980)
Touched by Love
Original Music Composer
(1980)
Inside Moves
Original Music Composer
(1980)
Night Games
Original Music Composer
(1980)
Raise the Titanic
Original Music Composer
(1979)
Moonraker
Original Music Composer
(1979)
The Black Hole
Original Music Composer
(1979)
Willa
Original Music Composer
(1979)
The Corn Is Green
Original Music Composer
(1979)
Hanover Street
Original Music Composer
(1978)
Game of Death
Original Music Composer
(1978)
Starcrash
Conductor, Original Music Composer
(1978)
The Betsy
Original Music Composer
(1977)
The White Buffalo
Original Music Composer
(1977)
First Love
Original Music Composer
(1977)
The Deep
Original Music Composer
(1977)
(1977)
The Gathering
Music
(1977)
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Original Music Composer
(1976)
King Kong
Original Music Composer
(1976)
Robin and Marian
Original Music Composer
(1975)
The Day of the Locust
Original Music Composer
(1975)
Love Among the Ruins
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1974)
The Man with the Golden Gun
Original Music Composer
(1974)
The Dove
Original Music Composer
(1974)
The Tamarind Seed
Original Music Composer
(1974)
Mission: Monte Carlo
Theme Song Performance
(1973)
The Glass Menagerie
Original Music Composer
(1973)
A Doll's House
Original Music Composer
(1972)
Follow Me!
Original Music Composer
(1972)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Songs, Original Music Composer
(1971)
Diamonds Are Forever
Original Music Composer
(1971)
The Last Valley
Original Music Composer
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Original Music Composer
(1971)
Walkabout
Music, Conductor, Original Music Composer
(1971)
They Might Be Giants
Original Music Composer
(1970)
Monte Walsh
Original Music Composer
(1969)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Original Music Composer
(1969)
Midnight Cowboy
Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor
(1969)
The Appointment
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Deadfall
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Boom!
Original Music Composer
(1968)
The Lion in Winter
Original Music Composer
(1968)
Petulia
Original Music Composer
(1967)
You Only Live Twice
Original Music Composer
(1967)
The Whisperers
Original Music Composer
(1966)
The Chase
Original Music Composer
(1966)
Dutchman
Original Music Composer
(1966)
The Quiller Memorandum
Songs, Original Music Composer
(1966)
Born Free
Songs, Original Music Composer
(1966)
The Wrong Box
Conductor, Music Arranger, Original Music Composer
(1965)
Thunderball
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1965)
Boy and Bicycle
Original Music Composer
(1965)
The Ipcress File
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1965)
King Rat
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1965)
The Party's Over
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Mister Moses
Original Music Composer
(1965)
The Knack... and How to Get It
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Four in the Morning
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1964)
Goldfinger
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1964)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1964)
Zulu
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Sophia Loren in Rome
Music
(1964)
A Jolly Bad Fellow
Music
(1964)
Man in the Middle
Original Music Composer
(1963)
From Russia with Love
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1963)
(1963)
The Cool Mikado
Music Arranger
(1962)
Dr. No
Music Arranger
(1962)
The Amorous Prawn
Original Music Composer
(1962)
The L-Shaped Room
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Mix Me a Person
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Never Let Go
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Beat Girl
Music