Cliff Martinez

Person Details

Birthday: 1954-02-05 23:13:21

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 50

TV Involvements: 5

Most Famous Work

Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Most Famous Work

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2002	N/A	Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? 2002-04-12 Movie
1986	Drums	Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO 1986-11-24 Movie
1982	Self	Ice Cream for Crow 1982-01-01 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2023	Original Music Composer	Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn 2023-01-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Copenhagen Cowboy 2023-01-05 TV Show
2022	Music	Touch of Crude 2022-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kimi 2022-02-10 Movie
2020	Original Music Composer	The Wilds 2020-12-11 TV Show
2019	Original Music Composer	Too Old to Die Young 2019-06-10 TV Show
	Music	Genghis Khan 2019-05-10 Movie
2018	Original Music Composer	Hotel Artemis 2018-06-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Game Night 2018-02-15 Movie
	Music	The Legend of Red Hand 2018-01-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Den of Thieves 2018-01-18 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	The Foreigner 2017-09-28 Movie
2016	Music	War Dogs 2016-08-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Neon Demon 2016-05-31 Movie
	Music	The Secret Slaves of the Middle East 2016-05-20 Movie
2014	Music	My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn 2014-09-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Knick 2014-08-08 TV Show
	Music	The Normal Heart 2014-05-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mea Culpa 2014-02-05 Movie
2013	Original Music Composer	Only God Forgives 2013-05-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Spring Breakers 2013-01-24 Movie
2012	Music	Golem 2012-09-19 Movie
	Music	Arbitrage 2012-09-14 Movie
	Music	The Company You Keep 2012-09-06 Movie
2011	Original Music Composer	Drive 2011-09-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Contagion 2011-09-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lincoln Lawyer 2011-03-17 Movie
2010	Music	Severe Clear 2010-03-12 Movie
2009	Original Music Composer	In the Beginning 2009-11-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Spy(ies) 2009-01-28 Movie
2008	Original Music Composer	Vice 2008-05-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Stiletto 2008-04-29 Movie
2006	Music	First Snow 2006-05-05 Movie
2005	Music	Havoc 2005-10-16 Movie
	Music	Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt 2005-02-01 Movie
2004	Original Music Composer	Wicker Park 2004-09-03 Movie
2003	Original Music Composer	Wonderland 2003-10-23 Movie
2002	Original Music Composer	Solaris 2002-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Narc 2002-01-14 Movie
2000	Original Music Composer	Traffic 2000-12-27 Movie
1999	Original Music Composer	The Limey 1999-10-08 Movie
1998	Original Music Composer	Wicked 1998-01-17 Movie
1997	Original Music Composer	Schizopolis 1997-04-02 Movie
1996	Original Music Composer	Gray's Anatomy 1996-09-11 Movie
1995	Original Music Composer	The Underneath 1995-04-28 Movie
1993	Original Music Composer	King of the Hill 1993-08-20 Movie
1992	Music	Black Magic 1992-09-21 Movie
1991	Original Music Composer	Kafka 1991-11-15 Movie
1990	Original Music Composer	Pump Up the Volume 1990-08-22 Movie
1989	Original Music Composer	sex, lies, and videotape 1989-08-04 Movie
1986	Music	Pee-wee's Playhouse 1986-09-13 TV Show
Year	Role	Movie/Tv