Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American musician, producer, and composer for film and television. He began his career as a member of Broadway’s pit orchestras, and later went on to produce solo albums for songs that were picked up by leading music performers including The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, and Dionne Warwick. He is known for his work in comedy films. He has been awarded many prestigious awards, including two nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and twelve BMI Awards. Edelman was given an honorary doctorate in fine arts by the University of Cincinnati in 2004.
Some of Edelman’s best known films scores include Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Beethoven, Gettysburg, The Mask, Dragonheart, Daylight and xXx. He also wrote the theme of the popular television series MacGyver. Many of his musical pieces have been reused in television advertising, trailers, Disney movies, and award shows.
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Randy Edelman Biography / Wiki
| Name | Randy Edelman |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Sound |
| Place of Birth | Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1947-06-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 75 |
| Deathday |
Randy Edelman Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | Our Guests at Heartland | 1978-07-24 | A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must … |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Mask | Original Music Composer | 1994-07-29 | When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the … |
| Kindergarten Cop | Original Music Composer | 1990-12-21 | Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord wh… |
| The Whole Nine Yards | Original Music Composer | 2000-02-18 | After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he’s relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban … |
| While You Were Sleeping | Original Music Composer | 1995-04-21 | A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he’s mugged, but—while he’s in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she’s Peter’s fi… |
| Son of the Mask | Original Music Composer | 2005-02-18 | Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son “bo… |
| My Cousin Vinny | Original Music Composer | 1992-03-13 | Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who’s a lawyer – V… |
| Drop Dead Fred | Original Music Composer | 1991-04-19 | When Elizabeth returns to her mother’s home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the traum… |
| The Distinguished Gentleman | Original Music Composer | 1992-12-04 | A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his vers… |
| Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | Original Music Composer | 1993-05-07 | This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training… |
| Beethoven’s 2nd | Original Music Composer | 1993-12-14 | Beethoven is back — and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he’s met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem i… |
| Ghostbusters II | Original Music Composer | 1989-06-16 | Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retire… |
| Gettysburg | Original Music Composer | 1993-10-08 | In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t… |
| Quick Change | Original Music Composer | 1990-07-13 | With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation… |
| Diabolique | Original Music Composer | 1996-03-22 | The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body… |
| Billy Madison | Original Music Composer | 1995-02-10 | Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his fath… |
| National Security | Original Music Composer | 2003-01-17 | Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation…. |
| Daylight | Original Music Composer | 1996-12-06 | A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosi… |
| The Indian in the Cupboard | Original Music Composer | 1995-07-14 | A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and be… |
| Edtv | Original Music Composer | 1999-03-26 | Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network…. |
| Six Days Seven Nights | Original Music Composer | 1998-06-12 | When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up strande… |
| Shanghai Knights | Original Music Composer | 2003-02-06 | The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O’Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they’re in London to avenge the murder of Chon’s father, … |
| Black Knight | Original Music Composer | 2001-11-21 | Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th centu… |
| The Skulls | Original Music Composer | 2000-03-31 | A senior at an ivy league college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it … |
| Underdog | Original Music Composer | 2007-08-03 | A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his ow… |
| xXx | Original Music Composer | 2002-08-09 | Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government “recruits” him to go on a mission, he’s not e… |
| Shanghai Noon | Original Music Composer | 2000-05-26 | Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her … |
| DragonHeart | Original Music Composer | 1996-05-31 | In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dra… |
| Gone Fishin’ | Music | 1997-05-30 | Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip…. |
| Shout | Original Music Composer | 1991-10-04 | A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys…. |
| Down Periscope | Music | 1996-03-01 | Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingr… |
| Anaconda | Original Music Composer | 1997-04-11 | A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadlie… |
| Citizen X | Original Music Composer | 1995-02-25 | Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17… |
| Osmosis Jones | Original Music Composer | 2001-08-10 | A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank…. |
| Greedy | Original Music Composer | 1994-03-04 | Meet the McTeagues. They’ve come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle’s will… only he’s not dead yet!… |
| Balls of Fury | Music | 2007-08-29 | Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling deb… |
| Gods and Generals | Original Music Composer | 2003-02-21 | The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th… |
| Blood Sport | Original Music Composer | 1973-12-05 | A searing commentary on the “win at all costs” mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to esc… |
| The Boy Next Door | Music | 2015-01-23 | A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn…. |
| Troop Beverly Hills | Original Music Composer | 1989-03-22 | A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter’s Wilderness Girls troop…. |
| Twins | Original Music Composer | 1988-12-08 | Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti… |
| xXx | Conductor | 2002-08-09 | Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government “recruits” him to go on a mission, he’s not e… |
| A Doctor’s Story | Original Music Composer | 1984-04-23 | A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile…. |
| Tall Tale | Original Music Composer | 1995-03-24 | A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste… |
| Come See the Paradise | Original Music Composer | 1990-08-17 | Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows … |
| Max 2: White House Hero | Original Music Composer | 2017-05-05 | Max is assigned to the White House while Butch, the secret service dog, is on maternity leave. He meets TJ, a 12 year old boy, who is the President’s … |
| For Richer or Poorer | Original Music Composer | 1997-12-11 | Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when … |
| Dennis the Menace | Music | 1987-09-18 | While digging in his front garden, Dennis finds a big bone. To prove it’s from a dinosaur, he persuades his father to invite an old buddy of him, Bowe… |
| The Last Time | Original Music Composer | 2006-10-01 | Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competit… |
| Connie and Carla | Original Music Composer | 2004-04-16 | After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor… |
| V.I. Warshawski | Original Music Composer | 1991-07-26 | Victoria “V.I” Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective t… |
| 27 Dresses | Original Music Composer | 2008-01-10 | Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores…. |
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Music | 2008-07-01 | Archaeologist Rick O’Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who’s returned from the dead to purs… |
| Passion of Mind | Music | 2000-01-07 | When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan wh… |
| Backdraft 2 | Original Music Composer | 2019-05-14 | Years after the original Backdraft, Sean, son of the late Steve “Bull” McCaffrey, is assigned to investigate a deadly fire only to realize it is somet… |
| Daylight | Conductor | 1996-12-06 | A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosi… |
| Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story | Original Music Composer | 1992-03-15 | True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim’s fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had ha… |
| The Quest | Original Music Composer | 1996-04-19 | Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martia… |
| Leap Year | Music | 2010-01-08 | When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allo… |
| Executive Action | Music | 1973-11-07 | Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu… |
| The Hunley | Music | 1999-07-11 | CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a… |
| Outside In | Music | 1972-01-01 | A man who moves to Canada to escape the draft returns to the United States for his father’s funeral…. |
| Scandal Sheet | Original Music Composer | 1985-01-21 | The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoho… |
| China: The Panda Adventure | Original Music Composer | 2001-06-09 | Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of… |
| Beethoven | Original Music Composer | 1992-04-03 | The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This “hole” is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their h… |
| Snatched | Music | 1973-01-31 | The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn’t want to pay his share…. |
| Leaves of the Tree | Music | 2016-08-18 | A dying man struggles to discover the secret of a mystical tree’s healing leaves…. |
| Surviving Christmas | Music | 2004-09-21 | Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old chi… |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | Music Arranger | 1987-05-22 | Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of d… |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | Music | 1987-05-22 | Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of d… |
| Feds | Music | 1988-10-28 | Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns … |
| Angels in the Outfield | Music | 1994-07-15 | Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger’s favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins … |
| Who Is Cletis Tout? | Music | 2001-09-12 | A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds t… |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Conductor | 1992-08-26 | In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic dau… |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Original Music Composer | 1992-08-26 | In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic dau… |
| Love in Kilnerry | Music | 2019-06-23 | The elderly residents of a small remote town panic when the EPA announces mandatory changes to their chemical plant could cause a dramatic increase in… |
| Pontiac Moon | Music | 1994-11-03 | An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his w… |
| Leave It to Beaver | Original Music Composer | 1997-08-22 | Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old “Beaver” Theodore. Beaver… |
| The Beast Inside | Music | When no one believes her, a woman possessed by a demonic entity is forced to perform an exorcism on herself…. | |
| Corky Romano | Original Music Composer | 2001-10-12 | Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to inf… |
| Original Music Composer | One biblical figure is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. His name is Moses, the man who rose in power to defend a people, to free them, … | ||
| Main Title Theme Composer | He’s everyone’s favorite action hero… but he’s a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed… | ||
| Music | He’s everyone’s favorite action hero… but he’s a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed… | ||
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