Michael Small

For other people named Michael Small, see Michael Small (disambiguation).

Michael Small
Born	May 30, 1939(1939-05-30) New York City, New York United States
Died	November 24, 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 64) New York City, New York United States
Occupation	Film score composer
Years active	1969–2002
Spouse	Lynn Goldberg

Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer best known for his scores to thriller movies such as The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber. Relatively few of his scores are available on compact disc. Michael Small died at the age of 64 from prostate cancer.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1969	Out of It	Paul Williams
1970	Jenny	George Bloomfield
	Light	Paul Cohen
	The Revolutionary	Paul Williams
	Puzzle of a Downfall Child	Jerry Schatzberg
1971	The Sporting Club	Larry Peerce	soundtrack Buddah Records BDS 95002
	Klute	Alan J. Pakula	soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1016[1]
1972	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Paul Williams	soundtrack Warner Bros. 7557 (7" promo)
	Child's Play	Sidney Lumet
1973	Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing	Alan J. Pakula
	Portrait of a Railroad	Harvey Lloyd	soundtrack Atco Records 23898
1974	The Parallax View	Alan J. Pakula	soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305
1975	The Stepford Wives	Bryan Forbes
	Night Moves	Arthur Penn
	The Drowning Pool	Stuart Rosenberg
1976	Marathon Man	John Schlesinger	soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305
1977	Pumping Iron	George Butler Robert Fiore
	Audrey Rose	Robert Wise
1978	The Driver	Walter Hill	soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33
	Girlfriends	Claudia Weill
	Comes a Horseman	Alan J. Pakula	soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 61[2]
1979	The China Syndrome	James Bridges	unused score Intrada Special Collection 110
	Going in Style	Martin Brest
1980	The Lathe of Heaven (TV)	Fred Barzyk David Loxton
	The Boy Who Drank Too Much (TV)	Jerrold Freedman
	Those Lips, Those Eyes	Michael Pressman
1981	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Bob Rafelson
	Continental Divide	Michael Apted
	Rollover	Alan J. Pakula
1982	La donna giusta	Paul Williams
1983	The Star Chamber	Peter Hyams	soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33
	Chiefs (TV miniseries)	Jerry London
1984	Kidco	Ronald F. Maxwell	soundtrack Intrada Signature Edition ISE1044
	Firstborn	Michael Apted
1985	Target	Arthur Penn
1986	Dream Lover	Alan J. Pakula
	Nobody's Child	Lee Grant
	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Gene Saks	soundtrack MCA Records MCA-6193
1987	Black Widow	Bob Rafelson	soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 29[3]
	Jaws: The Revenge	Joseph Sargent	soundtrack Intrada Special Collection MSML 1001
	Orphans	Alan J. Pakula
	Heat and Sunlight	Rob Nilsson
1988	1969	Ernest Thompson
1989	See You in the Morning	Alan J. Pakula
1990	Mountains of the Moon	Bob Rafelson	soundtrack Polydor Records 843 013-2[4]
	American Dream	Barbara Kopple
1991	Mobsters	Michael Karbelnikoff	soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5334
1992	Consenting Adults	Alan J. Pakula	soundtrack Milan Records 35630
1993	Alex Haley's Queen (TV)	John Erman
1994	Wagons East!	Peter Markle	soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5533
1998	Poodle Springs (TV)	Bob Rafelson
	Into My Heart	Sean Smith Anthony Stark
1999	American Masters "Norman Rockwell: Painting America" (TV)	Elena Mannes
2000	The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV)	Paul Monash
	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition	George Butler
2001	Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (TV)	Richard Pearce	original music
2001–2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)	Timothy Hutton John L'Ecuyer George Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Michael Jaffe John R. Pepper James Tolkan Holly Dale

References

1. ^ Review, Klute soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published online at buysoundtrax.com in "Soundtrax" for January 1, 2008, posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives
2. ^ Review, Comes a Horseman soundtrack; Ankeny, Jason, Allmusic
3. ^ Review, Black Widow soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published online at mania.com in "Soundtrax" for March 16, 2006, posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives
4. ^ Review, Mountains of the Moon soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published in Soundtrack Magazine (volume 9, number 35, 1990), posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives

External links

• Michael Small at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Small at AllRovi
• Michael Small at the TCM Movie Database
• Michael Small at Find a Grave
• "Michael Small Explores the Mountains of the Moon, interview by Matthias Büdinger; originally published in Soundtrack Magazine (volume 9, number 35, 1990), posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives
• Music cue sheet for "The Doorbell Rang" (2001), the premiere episode of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery, at The Wolfe Pack, official site of the Nero Wolfe Society
• Obituary in Film Score Monthly, December 5, 2003
• Obituary in the Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2003
• Obituary at Broadcast Music Inc., December 10, 2003
• Obituary in The New York Times, December 15, 2003
• Obituary in The Independent, January 3, 2004

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Name	Small, Michael
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Date of birth	May 30, 1939
Place of birth	New York City, New York United States
Date of death	November 24, 2003
Place of death	New York City, New York United States