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John Williams (John Towner Williams)

Last Updated: 09 Apr, 2024 | Views: 596

Age: 92

Profession: Musician

Other Profession(s): Composer, Pianist, Conductor

Famous For: Composer of iconic theme songs for Star Wars films

Higher Education: University of California

John Williams Religion, Birthday, Age

Date of Birth

08 Feb, 1932 (92 Years 07 Months 27 Days)

Birth Country

United States

Birth State/Province

New York

Birth District

New York City

Birth Place

Flushing

Birth Sign

Aquarius

Religion

Christianity

Nationalities

American

John Williams Early life, Education, Career, Awards, Achievements, Controversy, Unknown Facts

About (Profile/Biography):

John Williams is an American musician born in New York City. He’s a pianist, composer, and musician who has been awarded multiple times. At 15 he had his own jazz band and played with different instruments. By 19 he made his first masterpiece, a piano sonata. Over the years of his long career, he's created music for over 100 films.

John Williams Career:

In 1974, Steven Spielberg contacted John Williams to write the score for his first feature-length picture, The Sugarland Express.

Family Plot, a 1976 Alfred Hitchcock film, included Williams' music.

Williams and Spielberg worked together on the 1981 film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Williams created a reorchestrated piece for the Universal Pictures logo in 2002, which transitioned to music from the film.

For the fourth film in the series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Williams returned to the Indiana Jones franchise in 2008.

The soundtracks for War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin by Steven Spielberg were composed by Williams in 2011.

Williams indicated desire to collaborate on the Star Wars sequel trilogy in February 2013.

In 2015, Williams wrote the score for The Force Awakens.

The 2017 movie SCORE: A Film Music Documentary presented Williams' body of work as a film composer.

Williams wrote Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge's main musical theme in 2018.

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