Christopher Young

Age: N/A | From: Redbank, New Jersey, USA

TV
Involvement

116

Movie
Involvement

Person Details

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Aliases: Chris Young , Chistopher Young

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Redbank, New Jersey, USA

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Movie Involvements: 116

TV Involvements: 1

Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2018	Self	Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend 2018-11-20 Movie
	N/A	Eli Roth's History of Horror 2018-10-14 TV Show
2017	Self	Afterbirth: The Evolution of 'Species' 2017-06-11 Movie
	Self	Score: A Film Music Documentary 2017-03-16 Movie
2015	Self	Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II 2015-06-18 Movie
	N/A	The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars' 2015-04-07 Movie
2011	Self	Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan 2011-11-27 Movie
2009	Pedestrian with Cupcake	Drag Me to Hell 2009-05-27 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2023	Music	The Piper 2023-10-12 Movie
	Music	Creepover 2023-02-14 Movie
2022	Original Music Composer	Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities 2022-10-25 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	The Offering 2022-09-23 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	The Empty Man 2020-10-22 Movie
2019	Original Music Composer	Pet Sematary 2019-04-04 Movie
	Music	Fanboy 2019-03-22 Movie
2016	Original Music Composer	The Monkey King 2 2016-01-22 Movie
2014	Original Music Composer	Deliver Us from Evil 2014-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Single Moms Club 2014-03-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Monkey King 2014-01-09 Movie
2013	Music	Gods Behaving Badly 2013-11-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Killing Season 2013-07-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Love's Routine 2013-06-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Smile Man 2013-06-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Saving Norman 2013-05-25 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	The Black Tulip 2012-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Baytown Outlaws 2012-08-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sinister 2012-03-29 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	The Rum Diary 2011-10-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ghostmaker 2011-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Priest 2011-05-05 Movie
2010	Original Music Composer	When in Rome 2010-01-29 Movie
2009	Original Music Composer	Creation 2009-09-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Love Happens 2009-09-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Drag Me to Hell 2009-05-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Uninvited 2009-01-30 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	The Informers 2008-11-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sleepwalking 2008-03-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Untraceable 2008-01-22 Movie
2007	Original Music Composer	Spider-Man 3 2007-05-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lucky You 2007-05-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ghost Rider 2007-01-15 Movie
2006	Original Music Composer	The Grudge 2 2006-10-12 Movie
	Music	Tales from The Grudge 2006-09-19 Movie
2005	Original Music Composer	The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005-09-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Beauty Shop 2005-04-22 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	The Grudge 2004-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Something the Lord Made 2004-05-30 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	Shortcut to Happiness 2003-07-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Core 2003-03-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Runaway Jury 2003-01-16 Movie
2002	Original Music Composer	The Country Bears 2002-07-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Scenes of the Crime 2002-05-11 Movie
2001	Original Music Composer	The Shipping News 2001-12-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bandits 2001-10-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Glass House 2001-09-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Swordfish 2001-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sweet November 2001-02-16 Movie
2000	Original Music Composer	Bless the Child 2000-08-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Gift 2000-03-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wonder Boys 2000-02-22 Movie
1999	Original Music Composer	The Big Kahuna 1999-11-17 Movie
	Orchestrator	The Big Kahuna 1999-11-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Hurricane 1999-09-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	In Too Deep 1999-08-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Entrapment 1999-04-29 Movie
1998	Original Music Composer	Urban Legend 1998-09-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Judas Kiss 1998-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rounders 1998-09-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hush 1998-03-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hard Rain 1998-01-16 Movie
1997	Original Music Composer	The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997-11-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Murder at 1600 1997-04-18 Movie
	Orchestrator	Murder at 1600 1997-04-18 Movie
1996	Original Music Composer	Head Above Water 1996-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Set It Off 1996-11-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Norma Jean & Marilyn 1996-05-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Unforgettable 1996-02-23 Movie
1995	Original Music Composer	Copycat 1995-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Virtuosity 1995-08-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Species 1995-07-07 Movie
	Orchestrator	Species 1995-07-07 Movie
	Orchestrator	Tales from the Hood 1995-05-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tales from the Hood 1995-05-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Murder in the First 1995-01-20 Movie
1994	Original Music Composer	Judicial Consent 1994-10-21 Movie
1993	Original Music Composer	Dream Lover 1993-10-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Dark Half 1993-04-23 Movie
1992	Original Music Composer	Jennifer Eight 1992-11-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rapid Fire 1992-08-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Vagrant 1992-05-15 Movie
	Orchestrator	The Vagrant 1992-05-15 Movie
1990	Music	Bright Angel 1990-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back 1990-03-23 Movie
	Music	Max and Helen 1990-01-08 Movie
1989	Original Music Composer	Hider in the House 1989-05-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fly II 1989-02-10 Movie
1988	Original Music Composer	Hellbound: Hellraiser II 1988-12-23 Movie
	Orchestrator	Hellbound: Hellraiser II 1988-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Haunted Summer 1988-12-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bat★21 1988-07-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Telephone 1988-01-22 Movie
1987	Original Music Composer	Flowers in the Attic 1987-11-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Hellraiser 1987-09-11 Movie
	Orchestrator	Hellraiser 1987-09-11 Movie
	Music	American Harvest 1987-01-16 Movie
1986	Original Music Composer	Trick or Treat 1986-10-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Invaders from Mars 1986-06-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Getting Even 1986-02-21 Movie
1985	Original Music Composer	Barbarian Queen 1985-11-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge 1985-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 1985-10-01 Movie
	Music	Godzilla 1985 1985-08-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Wheels of Fire 1985-04-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Def-Con 4 1985-03-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Avenging Angel 1985-01-11 Movie
1984	Original Music Composer	The Power 1984-01-20 Movie
1982	Original Music Composer	Highpoint 1982-08-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Dorm That Dripped Blood 1982-04-02 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv