Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.

Filmography

• Cape Fear — Music
• 2020Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes — Original Music Composer
• 2019The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration — Original Music Composer
• 2018The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever — Music
• 2009Le carnaval de l’angoisse — Music
• 2008Back to Room 666 — Original Music Composer
• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis — Main Title Theme Composer
• 1999Psycho Path — Musical
• 1998Psycho — Original Music Composer
• 1994Bon week-end Monsieur Bennett ! — Music
• 1993The Egg — Music
• 1991Cape Fear — Original Music Composer
• 1990Psycho IV: The Beginning — Music
• 1987The Story of a Recluse — Original Music Composer
• 1983Cada ver es... — Original Music Composer
• 1979Psycho Shampoo — Music
• 1978It Lives Again — Original Music Composer
• 1976God Told Me To — In Memory Of
• 1976Obsession — Original Music Composer
• 1976Taxi Driver — Original Music Composer, Music Director, Thanks
• 1975Hanuman and the Five Kamen Riders — Music
• 1974It's Alive — Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
• 1973Sisters — Original Music Composer
• 1972Endless Night — Original Music Composer
• 1971The Road Builder — Original Music Composer
• 1969Obsessions — Original Music Composer
• 1969The Battle of Neretva — Original Music Composer
• 1968Companions in Nightmare — Original Music Composer
• 1968Death in the Afternoon — Original Music Composer
• 1968The Bride Wore Black — Original Music Composer
• 1968Twisted Nerve — Original Music Composer
• 1966Fahrenheit 451 — Original Music Composer, Conductor
• Lost in Space — Music
• 1964Marnie — Original Music Composer
• 1963Jason and the Argonauts — Original Music Composer, Conductor
• 1963The Birds — Music Consultant
• 1962Cape Fear — Original Music Composer
• 1962Tender Is the Night — Original Music Composer
• 1961Mysterious Island — Original Music Composer, Conductor
• 1960Psycho — Original Music Composer
• 1960The 3 Worlds of Gulliver — Original Music Composer
• 1959Blue Denim — Original Music Composer
• 1959Journey to the Center of the Earth — Original Music Composer
• 1959North by Northwest — Original Music Composer
• The Twilight Zone — Original Music Composer
• 1958The 7th Voyage of Sinbad — Original Music Composer
• 1958The Fiend Who Walked the West — Music
• 1958The Naked and the Dead — Original Music Composer
• 1958Vertigo — Original Music Composer
• 1957A Hatful of Rain — Original Music Composer
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Original Music Composer
• 1957Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot — Music
• 1956The Man Who Knew Too Much — Conductor at Albert Hall (uncredited), Original Music Composer
• 1956The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit — Original Music Composer, Conductor, Music Arranger
• 1956The Wrong Man — Stork Club Piano Player (uncredited), Original Music Composer
• 1955Prince of Players — Original Music Composer
• 1955The Kentuckian — Original Music Composer
• 1955The Trouble with Harry — Original Music Composer
• 1954A Christmas Carol — Songs
• 1954Garden of Evil — Original Music Composer
• 1954The Egyptian — Original Music Composer
• 1953Beneath the 12-Mile Reef — Original Music Composer
• 1953King of the Khyber Rifles — Original Music Composer
• 1953White Witch Doctor — Original Music Composer
• 19525 Fingers — Original Music Composer
• 1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro — Original Music Composer
• 1951On Dangerous Ground — Original Music Composer
• 1951The Day the Earth Stood Still — Original Music Composer
• 1947The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
• 1946Anna and the King of Siam — Original Music Composer
• 1945Hangover Square — Original Music Composer
• 1943Jane Eyre — Original Music Composer
• 1942The Magnificent Ambersons — Original Music Composer
• 1941All That Money Can Buy — Original Music Composer, Conductor
• 1941Citizen Kane — Original Music Composer, Conductor

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 20th Century Greats — Self (archive footage)
• 1964A Talk with Hitchcock — Self