John Frizzell (composer)
Quick Facts
Biography
John Frizzell (born 1966) is an American film and television composer. As a young boy, Frizzell sang soprano in the National Cathedral Choir, the Paris Opera Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Company. However, once he hit puberty, his voice changed. He continued his study of music at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music, but he began to focus more on the jazz guitar than voice. After he finished college, Frizzell worked with Michael Mainieri, a famous producer and became exposed to synthesis and helped Mainieri on many commercials, movies, and records.
Frizzell's career excelled and he worked with many more renowned composers, directors and producers including Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Sacret Young, James Newton Howard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Joel Silver, Randy Edelman and Mark Rydell. However, Frizzell is best known for his work with Mike Judge. He did the scores for Judge's films Beavis and Butthead Do America and Office Space as well as the music for Judge's TV series King of the Hill. His other film scores include I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Alien: Resurrection, Dante's Peak, Thirteen Ghosts, Ghost Ship, Gods and Generals, Stay Alive and The Reaping. He also composed the TV musical score for VR.5 and more recently the thriller drama television series The Following.
Film scores
1995
- Whose Daughter Is She?
- It Was Him or Us
1996
- Deadly Pursuits
- Undertow
- Red Ribbon Blues
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
- The Rich Man's Wife
- Crime of the Century
- The Empty Mirror
1997
- Opposite Corners
- Dante's Peak
- Alien: Resurrection
1998
- Mafia! (as Gianni Frizzelli)
- I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1999
- Office Space
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle
- The White River Kid
2000
- Beautiful
- Lockdown
- Possessed
2001
- Josie and the Pussycats
- James Dean
- Thirteen Ghosts
2002
- Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
- Ghost Ship
2003
- Gods and Generals
- Cradle 2 the Grave
- The Whizzard of Ow
2004
- The Goodbye Girl
- Karroll's Christmas
2005
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
- Four Minutes
- Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
2006
- A Little Thing Called Murder
- Stay Alive
- The Woods
2007
- Careless
- Primeval
- First Born
- The Reaping
- Black Irish
- Beneath
2008
- Henry Poole Is Here
- Wisegal
- 100 Feet
- Tenure
2009
- Evil Angel
- The Lodger
- From Mexico with Love
- Whiteout
2010
- Legion
- Shelter
2011
- The Roommate
2013
- Texas Chainsaw 3D
2014
- The Loft
2016
- When the Bough Breaks
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- Leatherface