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Christopher Young
Christopher Young, May 2007
Background information
Birth name	Robert Gilchrist Ilsley Young
Born	April 28, 1957 (1957-04-28) (age 52) Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
Genres	Film score
Occupations	Composer
Years active	1982–present
Website	http://www.christopher-young.com/

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning American music composer for film and television. Many of his works were for horror movies, including Hellraiser, Tales from the Hood, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Urban Legend and Drag Me to Hell. Other works include Lucky You and Spider-Man 3, for which he received the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Dramatic Feature Film. He also made three cameo appearances in Spider-Man 3.

Life and career

Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then completed his post-graduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under the famous David Raksin.

Filmography

• The Snake Pit
• Love Happens
• Drag Me to Hell
• The Uninvited
• Sleepwalking
• Untraceable
• Spider-Man 3
• Lucky You
• Ghost Rider
• Entrapment
• Dark Ride (Themes Only)
• The Grudge 2
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• At the Dusk (Incomplete Score)
• Unfinished Life (Partially Used Score)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (cues used from Sweet November)
• Beauty Shop
• The Grudge
• Hide and Seek (incomplete score)
• Something the Lord Made
• Spider-Man 2 (additional music)
• Something's Gotta Give (additional music)
• Runaway Jury
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• The Core
• Rounders
• Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
• Shade
• Set It Off
• The Tower
• The Country Bears
• Madison (themes only)
• The Warden
• The Shipping News (2001)
• Dragonfly (incomplete score)
• Scenes of the Crime
• Bandits
• Rapid Fire
• Copycat
• The Glass House
• Swordfish
• Sweet November
• The Gift
• The Big Kahuna
• Wonder Boys
• Bless the Child
• Virtuosity
• Hellraiser
• Hard Rain
• Flowers in the Attic
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
• The Dark Half
• Hider in the House

External links

• Official Website
• Christopher Young at the Internet Movie Database