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Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer, who scored the music for Disney films, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Parent Trap, Lilo & Stitch, and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including The Avengers films. He also composed the 1995 Hollywood Pictures sci-fi drama Judge Dredd, the 2000 Dimension Films action thriller Reindeer Games, and the 2001 Miramax Films romance comedy Serendipity.

Silvestri was born in 1950 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School and went to Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts for two years. He started his film/television composing career in 1972 at age 21, composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang and later served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs and as additional composer for the television series Amazing Stories and Tales from the Crypt.

In 1984, he began a frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on films, like Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Beowulf, Flight, The Walk, Allied, Welcome to Marwen, The Witches and Here. He also scored other films, such as Predator, Critical Condition, Overboard, The Abyss, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Bodyguard, Grumpy Old Men, The Quick and the Dead, Sgt. Bilko, Volcano, Mouse Hunt, The Odd Couple II, Practical Magic, the first two Stuart Little movies, Reindeer Games, What Women Want, The Mummy Returns, The Mexican, Maid in Manhattan, Identity, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Van Helsing, the Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The A-Team, The Croods, RED 2, The Electric State and Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One.

He also composed music for the science documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds on National Geographic for which he won two Emmy Awards.

Silvestri even shares the same exact first name as fellow composer Alan Menken who is also a frequent collaborator of Disney and Disney-related scores, as both artists have been born and raised in New York. They even work together for Capitan America: The First Avenger: Silvestri composed the main score for the film while Menken composed song "Star Spangled Man".

Filmography[]

Year Film Subsidiary Position
1986 Flight of the Navigator Walt Disney Pictures Composer
1987 Outrageous Fortune Touchstone Pictures Composer
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Composer
Conductor
1991 Father of the Bride Composer
1993 Super Mario Bros. Hollywood Pictures Composer
1995 Judge Dredd Composer
Conductor
Father of the Bride Part II Touchstone Pictures Composer
1998 The Parent Trap Walt Disney Pictures Composer
Holy Man Touchstone Pictures Composer
Conductor
2000 Reindeer Games Miramax Films Composer
Conductor
2001 Serendipity Composer
Conductor
2002 Lilo & Stitch Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Pictures
Composer
Choir arranger
Conductor
2003 Stitch! The Movie Disney Television Animation
Walt Disney Pictures
Original Themes
2006 The Wild Walt Disney Pictures Composer
Conductor
Leroy & Stitch Disney Television Animation
Walt Disney Pictures
Original Themes
2009 A Christmas Carol Walt Disney Pictures
ImageMovers Digital
Composer
Lyricist
Conductor
Orchestrator
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger Marvel Studios Composer
Conductor
Orchestrator
2012 The Avengers
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Original Themes
2018 Avengers: Infinity War Composer
2019 Avengers: Endgame Composer
Conductor
2022 Pinocchio[1] Walt Disney Pictures Composer
Lyricist
Conductor
Orchestrator
2025 Lilo & Stitch Original Themes
2026 Avengers: Doomsday Marvel Studios Composer
2027 Avengers: Secret Wars

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Trivia[]

  • He was originally slated to compose the score for Tarzan, but was replaced by Mark Mancina.

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