James Dooley (composer)

James Dooley (b. August 22, 1976) is a graduate of New York University where he majored in Music Composition. Upon completion of his degree, he moved to Los Angeles to study the art of film composing with such prolific scoring legends as Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. He joined Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions) in 1999 and began collaboration with the world-renowned Hans Zimmer both as his Chief Technical Engineer on "Gladiator" and as an additional composer, arranger and orchestrator on such notable features as "The Simpsons Movie", "The Da Vinci Code", ', "The Ring", "Tears of the Sun", "King Arthur", Ridley Scott's "Hannibal" and "Black Hawk Down". Dooley also worked on several animated feature scores such as ', "Madagascar", its spin-off penguins short "A Christmas Caper" and the Academy Award winning "".

In terms of solo ventures, Dooley's most ambitious projects to date have been an original score to Simon West's remake of the box-office record breaking [cite news | author=Brandon Gray | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2001&p=s.htm | title='When a Stranger' Dials Up Super Bowl Record | publisher=Box Office Mojo | date=2006-02-02 | accessdate=2008-05-29 ] thriller remake "When a Stranger Calls", and composing the complex, interactive scores for best-selling videogame titles such as and . He also fully scored the German animated release "Urmel aus dem Eis" (Impy's Island), and DreamWorks Animation's musically acclaimed and Oscar-contending short "First Flight". He provided music for episodes of ABC's hit weekly television series, "What About Brian" and is currently the composer for the ABC dramedy "Pushing Daisies".

Dooley's music can also be heard in the theatrical trailers for "Elf", "Man on Fire", "The Da Vinci Code", "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and most recently the "Spider-Man 3" full theatrical trailer, so far one of the highest-rated and exposed of 2006. Known for his interest and expertise in many mediums and genres, James’ projects also include many well known commercial spots, sports programming ventures, and the ground-breaking documentary "Mars Underground", for which he donated proceeds to the Red Cross national disaster relief effort. Dooley most recently finished scoring the Disney animated prequel ', and is currently working on ' with Hans Zimmer, and the second season of "Pushing Daisies".

Emmy Awards

* 2008 Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score):
"Pushing Daisies": "Pigeon" (ABC)

Filmography

2008
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*Urmel aus dem Eis 2 (Impy's Island 2)
*The Simpsons Ride (Universal Studios Theme Park Attraction)

2007
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*Daddy Day Camp
*Pushing Daisies (TV)2006
* (Video Game)
*Urmel aus dem Eis
*First Flight
*When a Stranger Calls2005
* (Video game)
*The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
*Ordinary Miracles (TV)
*Detective (TV)
*Dead to Rights II (Video game)
*Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV)
*The Mars Underground
*The Contender (TV)2004
*Frenching
*Life on Liberty Street (TV)
*The Hollywood Mom's Mystery (TV)2003
*Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s (TV)
*Skin (TV)
*Come Lovely
*The Louisiana Purchase (TV)
*Smooth
*Life After War
*Things Fall Apart2002
*Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr (TV)
*Untitled: 003-Embryo
*Papal Cab2001
*Area 52 (TV)
*Agua Dulce2000
*Bit Players
*SportsCentury: The Century's Greatest Athletes (TV)1999
*The Good Man's Sin

References

External links

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* [http://www.jimdooley.com James Dooley's official homepage]
* [http://www.hans-zimmer.com/ Hans Zimmer fanpage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/jamesdooleyscore James Dooley] on MySpace