Bernard Herrmann

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  • Birth Place: New York, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/29/1911, Cancer
  • Date of Death: 12/24/1975
  • Profession: Music Director; Musician; Composer
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Bernard Herrmann Fast Facts:
  • Won a $100 composition prize at age 13.
  • Appointed staff conductor of the CBS Symphony in 1935; premiered works by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Charles Ives as chief conductor (1940-51).
  • Earned an Oscar nomination for his first movie orchestration, the 1941 Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane; also collaborated with Welles on the 1938 Mercury Players radio drama The War of the Worlds.
  • Won an Oscar for his second movie orchestration, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941).
  • Composed the scores for eight Alfred Hitchcock films (but earned no Oscar nominations for them); persuaded Hitchcock to use music in the Psycho shower scene.
  • Died the night after completing sound editing for Taxi Driver (1976).
  • Is pictured on a 33-cent U.S. postage stamp (one of six Hollywood composers honored by the Postal Service in 1999).
  • Two of his scores (Psycho and Vertigo) are on the American Film Institute's 2005 Top 25 list.
  • Bernard Herrmann Relationships:
  • Violet Lucille Fletcher - Ex-wife
  • Abraham Herrmann - Father
  • Ida Gorenstein - Mother
  • Louis Herrmann - Brother
  • Rose Herrmann - Sister
  • Kathy Lucille Anderson - Ex-wife
  • Norma Shepherd - Wife
  • Dorothy Louise Herrmann - Daughter
  • Wendy Elizabeth Herrmann - Daughter
  • Bernard Herrmann Awards:
  • 1976 Oscar: Best Achievement in Music (Original Score) - Nominee
  • 1955 Emmy: Best Original Music Composed for TV - Nominee
  • 1952 Golden Globe: Best Original Score - Motion Picture - Nominee
  • 1976 BAFTA Awards: The Anthony Asquith Award - Winner
  • 1941 Oscar: Best Achievement in Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) - Nominee
  • 1941 Oscar: Best Achievement in Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) - Winner
  • 1946 Oscar: Best Achievement in Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - Nominee
  • College:
  • Attended New York University, New York, NY; Attended The Juilliard School, New York, NY
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