Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks.

Filmography

• 2021Sayonara America
• 2010Ceremony — Additional Music
• 2008Dark Matter — Original Music Composer
• Broken Trail — Original Music Composer
• 2004The Adventures of Ociee Nash — Original Music Composer
• Stuart Little: The Animated Series — Music
• 2003The Company — Music
• 2002Charms for the Easy Life — Original Music Composer
• 2002Monday Night Mayhem — Original Music Composer
• 2002Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story — Music
• 2001Call Me Claus — Original Music Composer
• 2001In the Time of the Butterflies — Original Music Composer
• 2001The Ponder Heart — Original Music Composer
• 2000Harlan County War — Original Music Composer
• 1999Border Line — Original Music Composer
• 1998A Chance of Snow — Original Music Composer
• 1998Barney's Great Adventure — Original Music Composer
• 1998Noah — Original Music Composer
• 1998Shadrach — Original Music Composer
• 1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest — Original Music Composer
• 1997Oliver Twist — Original Music Composer
• 1996Bastard Out of Carolina — Original Music Composer
• 1996The Summer of Ben Tyler — Original Music Composer
• 1995Wild Bill — Original Music Composer
• 1994Next Door — Original Music Composer
• 1994One Christmas — Original Music Composer
• 1992Out on a Limb — Original Music Composer
• Eerie, Indiana — Original Music Composer
• 1991Frogs! — Original Music Composer
• 1990Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme — Minister of Merriment, Original Music Composer
• 1990The Two Jakes — Francis Hannah, Original Music Composer
• Twin Peaks — Jack Racine
• 1989Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife — Music
• 1988Casual Sex? — Original Music Composer
• 1988Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special — Original Music Composer
• 1988Rented Lips — Original Music Composer
• 1988Vibes — Dr. Weiner
• 1987The Brave Little Toaster — Music, Songs
• 1986Club Paradise — Original Music Composer
• 1986Darlin' Clementine — Music
• 1986Ponce de Leon — Music
• 1985Follow That Bird — Music
• Tall Tales & Legends — Music
• 1983Jack and the Beanstalk — Music Consultant
• 1983Little Red Riding Hood — Music Director
• Faerie Tale Theatre — The Musician
• 1982The Tale of the Frog Prince — The Musician
• 1980Popeye — Hoagy the Piano Player, Conductor
• 1978Goin' South — Original Music Composer
• 1978Loose Shoes — Indian #2
• 1970Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
• 1956The Swan — George
• Bonino — Andrew Bonino
• General Electric Theater — Horace
• Studio One — Eddie Stone, Robbie, Lawrence Alden

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2024The Beach Boys — Self (archival footage)
• 2022Peter Case: A Million Miles Away — Self
• 2020A World Without Beethoven? — Self
• 2019No Smoking — Self
• 2015Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George — Self / Producer Musician
• 2010Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969 — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) — Self
• 20091974: On the Road With The Beach Boys — Self
• 2009The People Speak — Self
• 2007Silverchair: Making of Young Modern — Himself
• 2005The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice — Self
• 2004Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile — Self
• 2003Ringo Rama — Himself
• 2002Van Dyke Parks: An Obsession with Music — Self
• 2000The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony — Self
• 1995Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times — Self
• 1988Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball — Himself
• 1985The Beach Boys: An American Band — Self (archive footage)
• 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Self
• 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Self