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