Biography
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Graeme Revell (born in New Zealand on October 23, 1955) is a prolific and respected composer of film soundtracks.
Revell is a classically trained pianist and French horn player, but also graduated from the University of Auckland with degrees in economics and politics. He worked as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Later, he was a member of SPK, a 1970's music group, for which he played keyboards and percussion. Their single "In Flagrante Delicto" was the basis for his first film score for Dead Calm, which won him an Australian Film Industry award.
His unique musical style is very much electronic and computer-based in nature, yet often utilizes classical instruments or entire arrangements for certain pieces, much like his contemporary counterpart Hans Zimmer. His music is often reused from movie to movie (parts from his score for The Crow were reused for Kingdom of Heaven according to IMDB) and in more recent times he has collaborated with other artists on their albums. After the success of his soundtrack on Red Planet where he used the voice of French singer Emma Shapplin to back-up and often lead his score, he collaborated with her on her own album Etterna, producing all of her songs.
Credited soundtracks
Film
- Dead Calm (1989)
- Till There Was You (1990)
- Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
- Child's Play 2 (1990)
- Deadly (1991)
- Until the End of the World (1991)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
- Love Crimes (1992)
- Traces of Red (1992)
- Body of Evidence (1993)
- Boxing Helena (1993)
- Hear No Evil (1993)
- The Crush (1993)
- Ghost in the Machine (1993)
- Hard Target (1993)
- The Crow (1994)
- No Escape (1994)
- Street Fighter (1994)
- S.F.W. (1994)
- Tank Girl (1995)
- The Basketball Diaries (1995)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
- The Tie That Binds (1995)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Race the Sun (1996)
- From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
- Fled (1996)
- The Craft (1996)
- The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
- Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
- The Saint (1997)
- Spawn (1997)
- Chinese Box (1997)
- Suicide Kings (1997)
- The Big Hit (1998)
- Phoenix (1998)
- The Negotiator (1998)
- Strike! (1998)
- Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
- Bride of Chucky (1998)
- The Siege (1998)
- Idle Hands (1999)
- Bats (1999)
- Three to Tango (1999)
- Buddy Boy (1999)
- Gossip (2000)
- Pitch Black (2000)
- Red Planet (2000)
- Attraction (2000)
- Calle 54 (2000)
- Titan A.E. (2000)
- Blow (2001)
- Double Take (2001)
- Don't Say a Word (2001)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
- Human Nature (2001)
- Collateral Damage (2002)
- Below (2002)
- High Crimes (2002)
- Open Water (2003)
- Out of Time (2003)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Walking Tall (2004)
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
- Sin City (2005)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)
- Goal! (2005)
- Harsh Times (2005)
- The Fog (2005)
- Æon Flux (2005)
- Marigold (2006)
Television and video
- Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
- Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998)
- Bats Abound (1999)
- Dune (2000) (mini-series)
- Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
- CSI: Miami (2002)
- Legends (2004)
- Call of Duty 2 (2005) (video game)
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