Alex North
Born
December 4, 1910
Died
September 8, 1991 (80 years old)
Known For
Sound
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
