![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter Born: 1962 Biography:A talented composer whose sensibilities run the gamut from epic to low-key and nearly everything in between, David Arnold is as comfortable writing grandiose compositions for the latest James Bond opus as he is creating music for such intimate dramas as Baby Boy. A native of Luton, England, Arnold started out scoring the short films of friend Danny Cannon, which sparked an interest in cinematic orchestration, and it didn't take long for the ambitious young musician to find his way into feature-film territory. A collaboration with Icelandic songstress Björk resulted in the hit single "Play Dead," which was included in the score for Cannon's 1993 crime drama The Young Americans. Arnold moved into sci-fi territory when he scored the following year's sleeper hit Stargate, giving birth to an ongoing collaboration between Arnold and the director of that film, Roland Emmerich. Though Arnold would continue to... Full Biography
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