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person_profile-John Williams

John Williams Age: 93

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

John Williams

Date of Birth:

Feb 08, 1932

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

John Williams

    John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades. Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

    Williams has composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies, including the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. He has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but four of his feature films––Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge of Spies and Ready Player One. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island.

    Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is its laureate conductor. He was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).

    Description above from the Wikipedia article John Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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John Williams

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Filmography of

John Williams

Found 55 Movies in total

... 2024

... 2024

... 2024

John Williams in Tokyo

Himself ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2023

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Self ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 2023

... 2022

... 2022

... 2022

Ennio

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

... 2022

... 2021

... 2020

John Williams: Live in Vienna

Self - Conductor ( Actor )

Music

... 2020

The Skywalker Legacy

Self ( Actor )

... 2020

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Oma Tres ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 2019

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

... 2018

Spielberg

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

... 2016

... 2015

The 'E.T.' Journals

Self ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2011

... 2011

Music

Actor

... 2010

... 2010

... 2010

Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

Self / Performer ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

... 2006

... 2006

... 2005

... 2005

... 2004

... 2004

... 2004

... 2001

... 2001

... 2001

... 1997

... 1997

... 1996

The Making of '1941'

Himself ( Actor )

... 1996

The Making of 'Jaws'

Self ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1989

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga

Self ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 1983

... 1980

... 1980

Star Wars Concert

Self ( Actor )

Music

... 1978

Libido

Martin (segment "The Child") ( Actor )

... 1973