Biography Lee Holdridge was born on March 3, 1944 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is known as an accomplished composer for Television films. In the early days he spent his time in Costa Rica, but moved to Boston and New York to endure his musical studies. In 1971 he wrote his first score. His list of credits is nonetheless spectacularly grown since then, writing mostly for Television yet occasionally marking his compositional stature with some higher budget rated movies. His biggest hit was Splash (of director Ron Howard), yet other movies are known such as The Beastmaster, Big Business, Old Gringo as The Long Way Home. Successful TV movies include the credits of Beauty and the Beast, The Dreamer of Oz, Heidi, The Tuskegee Airmen and Into Thin Air among others. Lee Holdridge has also written various concert suites and worked with some of the best artists of the time. He received also critical acclaim for his score for the television mini film The Mists of Avalon. Further credits include Unlikely Heroes and Television work for mostly the last couple of years, including the acclaimed The Brooke Ellison Story. He has received 15 Emmy nominations of which he won 6 so far.
(on scoring animation) February, 1999 With Nimh I tried to score it more dramatically, like an action film in places, and I think it pays off. It made it a little different, a little more serious, so to speak. (on The Secret of NIMH 2) February, 1999 Animation is perfect for a composer. You can be very imaginative and do a lot of stuff with it! (on scoring animation) October 9, 2001 Both the
director and the producer were very adamant - no fanfares! We established this as the
language very early on, and it worked quite well. I love challenges like that because as a
composer, the pleasure of scoring a film or miniseries, or anything is that you inevitably
are led to work on ideas musically that you wouldn't normally
consider.
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