Bruce Broughton
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Bruce Broughton composes in almost every medium, from theatrical motion
pictures and television to computer games, in styles ranging from large
symphonic settings ("Silverado") to contemporary electronic scores (the
recently Emmy-nominated "The Dive from Clausen's Pier"). Broughton has
written the scores for such major motion pictures as "Tombstone," "Lost
In Space," "Young Sherlock Holmes" and "Bambi II." With 23 nominations,
he has received the Emmy award a record ten times, most recently for
his score to the HBO movie, "Warm Springs." His television credits
include the main title themes for "Jag" and Steven Spielberg's "Tiny
Toon Adventures," as well as the scores for countless television series
("Dallas," "Quincy," "Hawaii Five-O") and movies and mini-series ("The
Blue and the Gray," True Women"). His score for "Heart of Darkness" was
the first orchestral score composed for a CD-ROM game. Broughton's
concert music includes numerous works for orchestra and chamber groups,
which have been performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra,
the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is a
governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a board
member of ASCAP and a past president of The Society of Composers and
Lyricists. He has lectured in music composition at UCLA and has taught
film composition in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at
USC.