Alex North

Alex North

Personal Information

  • Occupation: Sound
  • Birthday: 04 Dec, 1910
  • Death day: 08 Sep, 1991 ( 34 years old )
  • Place of birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Also known as: Isadore Soifer

Alex North

Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia page Alex North, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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