Composer Cameos #6

Composer Cameos are back!  Here are a bunch of new cameos and roles by some familiar composer faces!  I have featured many other composers on the past posts, which are linked posts here: #1#2#3#4, #5.


JON BRION
Brion jams with Adam Sandler in Funny People (2009)

BRUCE BROUGHTON
Broughton plays piano in the A Quiet Day in Dodge episode of Gunsmoke (1973)

T-BONE BURNETT
Burnett (r) in Heaven's Gate (1980)
CARTER BURWELL
Burwell plays piano in Scorchers (1991)

FRANK CHURCHILL
Churchill plays piano behind the scenes in The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

GEORGE S. CLINTON
Clinton (l) as reporter Joe Pittman in The Apple (1980)

FRANK DE VOL
Frank De Vol as Mr. Eaglewood in The Parent Trap (1961)

RAMIN DJAWADI
Djawadi as a guitarist in The Riddle of the Sphinx episode of Westworld (2018)

PATRICK DOYLE
Doyle as the minister in Effie Gray (2014)

GEORGE FENTON
Fenton as the conductor in flashbacks in The Lady in the Van (2015) 

MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Giacchino (r) plays trooper FN-3181 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)


The conductor in Coco's final concert based on Giacchino's looks (2017)

HOWARD GOODALL
Goodall is a church organist in the pilot episode of Mr. Bean (1990)

LUDWIG GORANSSON
Goransson plays piano in the band in Creed (2015)

JONNY GREENWOOD
Greenwood (r) plays guitar at the Yule Ball in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

RICHARD HAGEMAN
Hageman is the saloon pianist in 3 Godfathers (1948)

MICHEL LEGRAND
Legrand plays Bob the pianist in Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

JOHN OTTMAN
Ottman portrays Confused Tech in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

ERIC SERRA
Eric Serra portrays The Bassist in Subway (1985)

THEODORE SHAPIRO
Shapiro (in hat) appears with the band in a deleted scene from Ghostbusters (2016)

MAX STEINER
Steiner appears conducting the orchestra in the titles of Girl Crazy (1932)

MORTON STEVENS
Stevens dies from a drug overdose and his case file in Trouble in Mind episode of Hawaii Five-O (1970)

HERBERT STOTHART/BRONISLAW KAPER
Stothart (l) and Kaper (r) appear in the backstage MGM short We Must Have Music (1941)

DIMITRI TIOMKIN
Tiomkin appears as himself in a bit on The Johnny Carson Show (1955)


Tiomkin appears as himself in the Honey From the Bee episode of 77 Sunset Strip (1959)


Tiomkin works with Jack Benny on a song in the hilarious Jack Writes Song episode of The Jack Benny Program (1961) 

OLIVER WALLACE

Wallace appears in the Disneyland episode, The Story of the Animated Drawing (1955)

Wallace conducts in the Disneyland episode, Cavalcade of Song (1955)

Wallace conducts the circus band in Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

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  1. I guess Carter Burwell, The Coen Brothers's collaborator did very well the cameo in the movie "Scorchers". He's playing the piano in the church.

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