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Christophe Beck

Master class with Christophe Beck (by Canadian File Centre).jpg
Beck in 2012

Background information
Birth name
Jean-Christophe Beck
Born
1968/1969 (age 48–49)[1]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres
  • Film score

  • Television score


Occupation(s)
Composer

Christophe Beck (born Jean-Christophe Beck, 1968/1969) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is a brother of the noted pianist Chilly Gonzales.




Contents





  • 1 Life and career

    • 1.1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer



  • 2 Filmography

    • 2.1 1990s


    • 2.2 2000s


    • 2.3 2010s



  • 3 References


  • 4 External links




Life and career[edit]


A native of Montreal, Beck graduated from Crescent School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He studied music at Yale University, where he was the music director of the Spizzwinks(?) of 1989 and 1990 and the Whiffenpoofs of 1991. He studied film scoring at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he was taught by Jerry Goldsmith among others.
He studied and worked under Mike Post for a period, including writing uncredited music on some of Post's series.


He won an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also worked on Angel and The Practice. His film credits include Starstruck (1998), Let the Devil Wear Black (1999), Bring It On (2000), Confidence (2003), American Wedding (2003), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Garfield (2004), Elektra (2005), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), School for Scoundrels, The Pink Panther (2006), We Are Marshall (2006), License to Wed (2007), The Seeker (2007), Fred Claus (2007), Charlie Bartlett (2007), Drillbit Taylor (2008), Phoebe in Wonderland (2008), I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), The Hangover (2009), Waiting for Superman (2010), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Date Night (2010), Tower Heist (2011), The Muppets (2011), Frozen (2013), Endless Love (2014), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). He appeared in the documentary Finding Kraftland (2006) for his agent Richard Kraft.



Buffy the Vampire Slayer[edit]


Beck was the main composer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer during seasons 2-4. He later returned to compose for the key episodes "The Gift" and "Once More, with Feeling", though he had signed for the musical earlier before his departure, making him obligated. Notable pieces of Beck's work have appeared on various Buffy soundtrack albums:


Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album

"Close Your Eyes", the Buffy/Angel love theme from "Becoming, Part Two", is included on this release.


Once More, with Feeling

Although Joss Whedon wrote the songs for "Once More, with Feeling", Beck was hired to realise them and provide the score. This album is almost entirely dedicated to this particular episode, but also features three Beck compositions from earlier episodes; "Suite from Restless", "Suite from Hush" and "Sacrifice", from "The Gift".


Radio Sunnydale

The UK and Latin America edition of this album includes "Dead Guys with Bombs", from "The Zeppo".


Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score

This release is entirely dedicated to Beck's compositions for the show. Much of the music is from "Graduation Day", "Hush", "Restless" and "The Gift", amongst others. Multiple cues are edited down versions of the original pieces heard on promotional CD's leaked years before.



Filmography[edit]



1990s[edit]












Year
Title
1996

Past Perfect
1997

Crossworlds

Hostile Intent

Killing Mr. Griffin

The Alarmist
1998

Starstruck

Bone Daddy

Airborne

Dog Park
1999

Let the Devil Wear Black

Guinevere

Thick as Thieves

Coming Soon


2000s[edit]





























































































































































































































Year
Title
Director(s)
Studio(s)
Notes
2000

Big Time

Douglas Petrie
N/A
N/A

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

Greg Berlanti

Screen Gems
N/A

Bring It On

Peyton Reed

Universal Pictures
N/A
2001

Lightmaker

Dieter Meier
N/A
N/A
2002

Slap Her... She's French

Melanie Mayron

Winchester Films
N/A

Big Fat Liar

Shawn Levy

Universal Pictures
N/A

The Skulls II

Joe Chappelle

Universal Studios Home Entertainment
N/A

Interstate 60

Bob Gale

Samuel Goldwyn Films
N/A

Stealing Harvard

Bruce McCulloch

Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
N/A

The Tuxedo
Kevin Donovan

DreamWorks Pictures
with John Debney
2003

Just Married

Shawn Levy

20th Century Fox
N/A

The Event

Thom Fitzgerald

THINKFilm
N/A

Confidence

James Foley

Lionsgate
with Dave Crawford

American Wedding

Jesse Dylan

Universal Pictures
N/A

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Sam Weisman

Paramount Pictures
Happy Madison
N/A

Under the Tuscan Sun

Audrey Wells

Touchstone Pictures
N/A

Cheaper by the Dozen

Shawn Levy

20th Century Fox
N/A
2004

Saved!

Brian Dannelly

United Artists
N/A

The Skulls III
J. Miles Davis

Universal Studios Home Entertainment
with Mark Kilian

Garfield: The Movie

Peter Hewitt

20th Century Fox
N/A

A Cinderella Story

Mark Rosman

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

Little Black Book

Nick Hurran

Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
N/A

Without a Paddle

Steven Brill

Paramount Pictures
N/A

Taxi

Tim Story

20th Century Fox
N/A
2005

Elektra

Rob Bowman

20th Century Fox
N/A

Ice Princess

Tim Fywell

Walt Disney Pictures
N/A

The Perfect Man

Mark Rosman

Universal Pictures
N/A

3 Needles

Thom Fitzgerald
Covington USA
N/A

Two for the Money

D.J. Caruso

Universal Pictures
N/A

Yours, Mine and Ours

Raja Gosnell

Paramount Pictures
Nickelodeon Movies
Columbia Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A
2006

The Pink Panther

Shawn Levy

Columbia Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A

The Sentinel

Clark Johnson

20th Century Fox
N/A

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Tim Hill

20th Century Fox
N/A

Zoom

Peter Hewitt

Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
N/A

We Are Marshall

McG

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

School for Scoundrels

Todd Phillips

The Weinstein Company
Dimension Films
N/A
2007

Year of the Dog

Mike White

Paramount Vantage
N/A

License to Wed

Ken Kwapis

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

The Seeker

David Loren Cunningham

20th Century Fox
Walden Media
N/A

Fred Claus

David Dobkin

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A
2008

Phoebe in Wonderland

Daniel Barnz

THINKFilm
N/A

Charlie Bartlett

Jon Poll

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A

Drillbit Taylor

Steven Brill

Paramount Pictures
N/A

What Happens in Vegas

Tom Vaughan

20th Century Fox
N/A
2009

The Greatest

Shana Feste
Barbarian Film Group
N/A

The Pink Panther 2

Harald Zwart

Columbia Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A

The Hangover

Todd Phillips

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Chris Columbus

20th Century Fox
Fox Atomic
N/A

Post Grad

Vicky Jenson

20th Century Fox
Fox Atomic
N/A

The Marc Pease Experience

Todd Louiso

Paramount Vantage
N/A

All About Steve

Phil Traill

20th Century Fox
N/A


2010s[edit]





















































































































































































































Year
Title
Director(s)
Studio(s)
Notes
2010

Waiting for Superman

Davis Guggenheim

Paramount Vantage
Walden Media
N/A

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Chris Columbus

20th Century Fox
N/A

Hot Tub Time Machine

Steve Pink

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United Artists
N/A

Date Night

Shawn Levy

20th Century Fox
N/A

Death at a Funeral

Neil LaBute

Screen Gems
N/A

RED

Robert Schwentke

Summit Entertainment
N/A

Due Date

Todd Phillips

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

Burlesque

Steve Antin

Screen Gems
N/A
2011

Cedar Rapids

Miguel Arteta

Fox Searchlight Pictures
N/A

The Hangover Part II

Todd Phillips

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

Crazy, Stupid, Love

John Requa
Glenn Ficarra

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

Tower Heist

Brett Ratner

Universal Pictures
N/A

The Muppets

James Bobin

Walt Disney Pictures
N/A
2012

This Means War

McG

20th Century Fox
N/A

The Watch

Akiva Schaffer

20th Century Fox
N/A

Pitch Perfect

Jason Moore

Universal Pictures
N/A

Paperman

John Kahrs

Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
short film

The Guilt Trip

Anne Fletcher

Paramount Pictures
N/A
2013

Movie 43
various

Relativity Media
Segment: "Happy Birthday"

The Hangover Part III

Todd Phillips

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

The Internship

Shawn Levy

20th Century Fox
N/A

R.I.P.D.

Robert Schwentke

Universal Pictures
N/A

Runner Runner

Brad Furman

20th Century Fox
N/A

Charlie Countryman
Fredrik Bond

Millennium Entertainment
Composed with Deadmono

Frozen

Chris Buck
Jennifer Lee

Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
N/A
2014

Endless Love

Shana Feste

Universal Pictures
N/A

Muppets Most Wanted

James Bobin

Walt Disney Pictures
N/A

Red Army

Gabe Polsky

Sony Pictures Classics
Composed with Leo Birenberg

Edge of Tomorrow

Doug Liman

Warner Bros. Pictures
Replaced Ramin Djawadi

Let's Be Cops

Luke Greenfield

20th Century Fox
Composed with Jake Monaco

Good Kill

Andrew Niccol

Voltage Pictures
Sobini Films
N/A

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Miguel Arteta

Walt Disney Pictures
N/A

Cake[2]

Daniel Barnz

After Dark Films
Echo Films
N/A
2015

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Steve Pink

Paramount Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A

Frozen Fever

Chris Buck
Jennifer Lee

Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Short film

Get Hard

Etan Cohen

Warner Bros. Pictures
N/A

Hot Pursuit

Anne Fletcher

Warner Bros. Pictures
New Line Cinema
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
N/A

Ant-Man

Peyton Reed

Marvel Studios
Replaced Steven Price

The Peanuts Movie

Steve Martino

20th Century Fox
Blue Sky Studios
Features smooth jazz musician David Benoit doing new renditions of Vince Guaraldi compositions such as Linus & Lucy.

Sisters

Jason Moore

Universal Pictures
N/A
2016

Trolls

Mike Mitchell
Walt Dohrn

20th Century Fox
DreamWorks Animation
N/A
2017

Lou
Dave Mullins

Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar
Short film

American Made

Doug Liman

Universal Pictures
Cross Creek Pictures
N/A

Olaf's Frozen Adventure
Kevin Deters
Stevie Wermers

Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Featurette short film

Anon

Andrew Niccol
K5 Film
N/A
2018

Gringo

Nash Edgerton

Amazon Studios
N/A

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Peyton Reed

Marvel Studios
N/A

Holmes and Watson

Etan Cohen

Columbia Pictures
N/A
2019

Frozen 2[3]

Chris Buck
Jennifer Lee

Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
N/A


References[edit]




  1. ^ Burlingame, Jon (October 25, 2011). "Christophe Beck's green phase". Variety. Retrieved December 31, 2013. Beck, 42, has scored more than 70 movies in the past 15 years. 


  2. ^ "Christophe Beck Scoring Daniel Barnz's 'Cake'". Film Music Reporter. August 13, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2014. 


  3. ^ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2017/06/01/christophe-beck-scoring-disneys-olafs-frozen-adventure/




External links[edit]




  • Official website


  • Christophe Beck on IMDb

  • Biography









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