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Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer, who scored the music for Disney films, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Parent Trap, Lilo & Stitch, and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including The Avengers films. He also composed the 1995 Hollywood Pictures sci-fi drama Judge Dredd.

Silvestri was born in 1950 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School and went to Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts for two years. He started his film/television composing career in 1972 at age 21, composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang and later served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs and as additional composer for the television series Amazing Stories and Tales from the Crypt.

In 1984, he began a frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on films, like Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Beowulf, Flight, The Walk, Allied, Welcome to Marwen, and The Witches. He also scored other films, such as Predator, Critical Condition, Overboard, The Abyss, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Bodyguard, Grumpy Old Men, The Quick and the Dead, Sgt. Bilko, Volcano, Mouse Hunt, The Odd Couple II, Practical Magic, the first two Stuart Little movies, Reindeer Games, What Women Want, The Mummy Returns, The Mexican, Serendipity, Maid in Manhattan, Identity, Van Helsing, the Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The A-Team, The Croods, RED 2, and Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One.

He also composed music for the science documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds on National Geographic for which he won two Emmy Awards.

Silvestri even shares the same exact first name as fellow composer Alan Menken who is also a frequent collaborator of Disney and Disney-related scores, as both artists have been born and raised in New York.

Disney Filmography[]

Year Film Position
1986 Flight of the Navigator Composer
1987 Outrageous Fortune Composer
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Composer
Conductor
1991 Father of the Bride Composer
1993 Super Mario Bros. Composer
1995 Judge Dredd Composer
Conductor
1995 Father of the Bride Part II Composer
1998 The Parent Trap Composer
1998 Holy Man Composer
Conductor
2002 Lilo & Stitch Composer
Choir arranger
Conductor
2006 The Wild Composer
Conductor
2009 A Christmas Carol Composer
Lyricist
Conductor
Orchestrator
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger Composer
Conductor
Orchestrator
2012 The Avengers Composer
Conductor
Orchestrator
2018 Avengers: Infinity War Composer
2019 Avengers: Endgame Composer
Conductor
2022 Pinocchio[1] Composer
Lyricist
Conductor
Orchestrator

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • He was originally slated to compose the score for Tarzan, but was replaced by Mark Mancina.

References[]

 

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