Today's Birthdays

one click shows all of today's celebrity birthdays

Browse All Birthdays

43,625    Actors
27,931    Actresses
4,867    Composers
7,058    Directors
842    Footballers
221    Racing drivers
925    Singers
9,111    Writers

Get FamousLikeMe on your website
One line of code gets FamousLikeMe on your website. Find out more.

Subscribe to Daily updates


Add to Google

privacy policy



Famous Like Me > Composer > E > Randy Edelman

Profile of Randy Edelman on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Randy Edelman  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 10th June 1947
   
Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Randy Edelman (born 10 June 1947) is a well known film and TV score composer born in Paterson, New Jersey.

Biography

Edelman attended the Cincinnati Music Conservatory, before heading to New York where he played piano in Broadway pit orchestras. He produced several solo albums of songs (some of which were later recorded by Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton-John and others) before moving to Los Angeles. It was there where Edelman started to work in TV and film scoring.

Musical scores

In the mid 1980's, Edelman wrote the theme to, and scored many episodes of MacGyver, a popular television series starring Richard Dean Anderson.

During the 80's and early 90's he also collaborated with Ivan Reitman producing scores for several of his comedies including Ghostbusters II, Twins and Kindergarten Cop (the last two featuring the unlikely but very successful comic pairing of Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger). He wrote the theme to the 1973 movie Executive Action which put forward a fictional version of some conspiracy theories concerning the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.

While some of the films scored by Edelman were not commercial successes, the music was often reused elsewhere. Themes he wrote for Dragonheart, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Gettysburg and other films have been widely used in TV advertising and film trailers.

This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Randy Edelman