Alex North
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1910 - 1991
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Actor
Conductor
Music
Musical
Original Music Composer
Biography
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award, bu
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