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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Bear Mccreary - Selected Works Arranged for Solo Piano
- Singularity
- Outlander : the Series Songbook
- Outlander : The Series
- Battlestar Galactica (Songbook)
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Film & TV
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time,…
Known for
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast — Self2025
- The Babysitter: Killer Queen — Frank the Recording Artist2020
- Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self2017
- Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie — Zombie2014
- The Making of The Walking Dead — Self2010
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1979-02-17
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 555,616
- Total plays
- 21,568,790
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Bear McCreary (born 1979) is an American composer known for his work on film, television, and video game soundtracks. McCreary has received multiple awards and nominations during his career. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for the first season of "Outlander" in 2015. He also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for "Da Vinci's Demons" and two Children's and Family Emmy Awards for his work on "Percy Jackson and the Olympia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- United States
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- USC Thornton School of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- chiptune
- Instrument
- percussion instrument
- Official website
- www.bearmccreary.com
- Image
- Bear McCreary, GDC 2019 (GEN1879 1) (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Los Angeles
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- influenced by
- Ennio Morricone
- Commons category
- Bear McCreary
- date of birth
- 1979-02-17
- Commons Creator page
- Bear McCreary
- social media followers
- 172000
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
- name in native language
- Bear McCreary
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