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Christopher Young profile
Actor

Christopher Young

Sound

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Acting credits

8

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Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.7

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Movies: 109Series: 2Crew credits: 104

TMDB ID: 19155

IMDb ID: nm0002366

Known for: Sound

Born: April 28, 1957

Age: 68

Place of birth: Redbank, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1982 - 2025

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 6.03

Wikidata: Q504078

Also known as

Chris Young • Chistopher Young

Other jobs

Original Music Composer (94)Music (8)Additional Music (1)Orchestrator (1)

Biography

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California.

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