Mark Orton

Biography

Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio drama. He is both a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of antique and unusual instruments, performing on all manner (and era) of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. Mark is the co-founder of Tin Hat, an internationally renowned composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums. He has written scores for dozens of films – documentary, narrative feature, and fine art – and has composed music for modern dance, theater, experimental radio, video/art installation, the circus, and the concert hall.

Most Famous Work

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Broke

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On Swift Horses

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The Holdovers

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Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

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The Last Shift

(2020) Music

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12 Mighty Orphans

(2021) Original Music Composer

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Love Hard

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360

(2012) Original Music Composer

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Acting

Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Additional Music	Broke 2025-06-10 Movie
2020	Score Engineer	The 11th Green 2020-01-08 Movie
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Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2025	Music	A Simple Machine 2025-06-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	On Swift Horses 2025-04-24 Movie
	Music	Fields of Devotion 2025-01-28 Movie
2023	Original Music Composer	The Holdovers 2023-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators 2023-06-28 TV Show
	Original Music Composer	Somewhere in Queens 2023-04-21 Movie
2022	Music	Ninety-Five Senses 2022-08-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp 2022-05-01 Movie
2021	Original Music Composer	Love Hard 2021-11-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	12 Mighty Orphans 2021-06-18 Movie
2020	Music	Jump the Fence 2020-10-12 Movie
	Music	The Last Shift 2020-09-25 Movie
	Music	Elsewhere 2020-01-24 Movie
	Music	Loop 2020-01-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The 11th Green 2020-01-08 Movie
2019	Music	Use Me 2019-06-02 Movie
	Music	Sunset over Mulholland Drive 2019-05-23 Movie
2018	Original Music Composer	A Place in Hell 2018-04-03 Movie
2017	Original Music Composer	So Much Yellow 2017-09-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Unleashed 2017-08-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lears 2017-04-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Deidra & Laney Rob a Train 2017-01-23 Movie
2016	Music	Heartland 2016-09-24 Movie
2015	Orchestrator	Pawn Sacrifice 2015-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	People, Places, Things 2015-08-14 Movie
2014	Music	My Old Lady 2014-09-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	My Old Lady 2014-09-09 Movie
	Music	La sedia della felicità 2014-04-24 Movie
2013	Original Music Composer	Nebraska 2013-09-21 Movie
	Music	A Tangled Tale 2013-06-07 Movie
	Music	Felix Austria! 2013-04-27 Movie
2012	Original Music Composer	360 2012-07-25 Movie
	Music	The Revisionaries 2012-04-21 Movie
2011	Music	Flat Daddy 2011-01-01 Movie
2008	Music	The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond 2008-09-12 Movie
2006	Music	Comrades in Dreams 2006-10-15 Movie
2005	Music	Sweet Land 2005-10-21 Movie
2002	Original Music Composer	The Good Girl 2002-01-12 Movie
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