Alex North

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 04, 1910 (114 years old)
Death date
Sep 08, 1991

Alex North

Known For

Making 'The Misfits'
0h 54m
Movie 2002

Making 'The Misfits'

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Biography

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 was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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