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Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951) is an American composer of scores for film and television. He is well known for his collaborations with director James Cameron on The Terminator (1984) and its blockbuster sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), as well as the action-comedy True Lies (1994). On these scores he mostly used synthesizers, but composed a number of scores utilizing various acoustic instruments, including full orchestra.

Brad Fiedel
Birth name	Brad Ira Fiedel
Born	(1951-03-10) March 10, 1951 (age 71) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Composer, musician
Instrument(s)	Synthesizer
Years active	1975–present
Website	bradfiedel.net

Fiedel's work includes other films in the genres of science fiction, action and horror, such as Fright Night (1985) and sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) and Johnny Mnemonic (1995). He also scored a number of comedy films, such as Compromising Positions (1985) and Fraternity Vacation (1985), as well as drama films including The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990) and Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996).

He retired from scoring films in the late 1990s and now focuses primarily on creating original musicals.

Biography

Raised in Bayville, New York on Long Island, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School. After college, he became a popular and progressive composer. In the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers in soundtracks. However, he almost disappeared from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s.[1] In the early 70's Fiedel was signed as a songwriter to Paul Simon's DeShufflin' Music. In the mid 70's he spent six months as the keyboardist for Hall and Oates.[2]

He began his career in film in the mid 1970s, and wrote extensively for television films including Playing for Time written by Arthur Miller starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander, and some independent cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction film The Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career.[3]

Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), The Big Easy (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Blink (1994), and True Lies (1994). He also composed the Lightstorm Entertainment logo jingle.[4]

In recent years, Fiedel moved on to other creative areas, writing original musicals, and designing and building a surf resort in La Saladita, Mexico. ^{[citation needed]}

His last major theatrical score was in 1995, and although he enjoyed a brief period of renewed interest following the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003, when Marco Beltrami wrote an orchestral arrangement of his theme, he shows no sign of returning to the film music field. He recently released an audio version of his original musical Full Circle.

Family

Fiedel has been married to actress Ann Dusenberry since 1975; the couple have two daughters named Alixandra and Zoe; they live in Santa Barbara, California.[5][6]

Filmography

References

External links

• Brad Fiedel at AllMusic
• Brad Fiedel at IMDb
• Movie Music UK biography

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[de] Brad Fiedel

Brad Ira Fiedel (* 10. März 1951 in New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmkomponist. Fiedel komponierte die Musik zu fast 100 Kino- und Fernsehfilmen sowie zu einigen Fernsehserien.

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[ru] Фидель, Брэд

Брэд Айра Фидель (англ. Brad Ira Fiedel; 10 марта 1951 (1951-03-10), Нью-Йорк, США) — американский кинокомпозитор. Популярный и прогрессивный композитор 1980-х годов, писал музыку к ряду успешных фильмов, в основном триллеров, а также впервые начал использовать электронные инструменты и синтезаторы, благодаря чему выделился из общего числа композиторов уже в конце 1990-х гг. Также аккомпанировал на клавишных инструментах дуэту Hall & Oates.

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