John Powell (film composer)
- For the geologist and U.S. explorer, see John Wesley Powell, for the Mayor of Toronto see John Powell (politician).
John Powell is British film score composer born on 18 September 1963, and currently based in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles.
Powell originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music. He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band "The Fabulistics". On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which lead to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing.
In 1995 he co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films.
Since moving to the U.S. in 1997, he has become a popular choice for comedy and action film scores, including Robots, The Italian Job, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Shrek, Chicken Run (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Endurance, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Face/Off.
Powell is one of the best known former members of the Remote Control team of film composers and has a scoring style that incorporates both traditional orchestral and more modern, synthesized elements.
He recently wrote the scores for X-Men: The Last Stand, and United 93, and is working on the scores for Happy Feet and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Filmography
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
- Agent Cody Banks
- Gigli
- Paycheck
- Stealing Sinatra
- The In-Laws
- The Italian Job
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
- Antz (with Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Endurance
- With Friends Like These…
1997
1996
- High Incident
- Human Bomb
1994
- The Wild Heels
1990
- Stay Lucky
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