- Gary Stockdale
Gary Stockdale has composed music for television shows such as
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ;They Came from Outer Space ;To Tell the Truth ; Comedy Central’sLast Laugh ;Cowboy U ;Hayley Wagner, Star! ;A Home for the Holidays (CBS), andShowtime ’s . He got his secondEmmy nomination for that theme. He recently wrote music forThe Aristocrats , byPenn Jillette andPaul Provenza , now on DVD.Fresh out of college, Gary met Oscar-winning music composer
Henry Mancini and under his mentorship learned the craft of film music composition.He began his film-music composing career working for the legendary director/producer
Roger Corman , scoring Corman's first "art" film (entered in the 1989 Los Angeles Film Festival),Dance of the Damned . Around this time, he started working side-by-side with famed film and television composerLalo Schifrin , arranging and composing cues for his various projects, includingSudden Impact ,FX2 , and Sam Peckinpah’s last film,The Osterman Weekend .Since 1990, he’s written music for the
Bad Boys of Magic ,Penn & Teller . Leading the band on their critically-acclaimed variety seriesPenn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular , he received his first Emmy nomination for his work on that show. He recently scored NBC’s .As a performer and singer, Gary has appeared in NBC's , and he sang on
Neil Young 's recent "Living With War " project, soon to be released on DVD. He has also contributed vocals to films such asThe Matrix Revolutions , and television series such asThe Family Guy .Gary is part of the long-running LA band
The Jenerators along withBilly Mumy (child star of the TV’s "Lost in Space ", and "The Twilight Zone") andMiguel Ferrer ("Crossing Jordan "). Gary was an original member of theBrian Setzer Orchestra , and he appeared as a featured actor and vocal soloist in the cult classic musical TV seriesCop/Rock .Along with Spencer Green, Gary has written a new musical,
BUKOWSICAL! , which opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles. BUKOWSICAL! then played the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2007 to sold-out crowds. The show won an award for "Outstanding Musical."Gary is the recent recipient of a 2007 BMI Award for Music Composition for his work on "Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT".
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