Biography: life and films
Maurice Jarre was a French composer whose birth name was Maurice-Alexis Jarre. He was born in Lyon, France on 13th September 1924 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 28th March 2009, aged 84.His best films as a musician include Jacques Ertaud's Les étoiles de midi (1959), David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Serge Bourguignon's Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962), Moustapha Akkad's The Message (1976) and Volker Schlöndorff's Die Blechtrommel (1979).
Maurice Jarre supplied the music for 131 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Georges Franju (8 films), Peter Weir (5), Richard Fleischer (4), John Frankenheimer (4), David Lean (4), John Huston (3), Henri Verneuil (3), William Richert (2), Volker Schlöndorff (2), Paul Mazursky (2), Moustapha Akkad (2), Jacques Dorfmann (2), Harold Becker (2), Frédéric Rossif (2) and Adrian Lyne (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (82 films), Thriller (21), romance (17), War (17), comedy-drama (12), comedy (11), history (7), comedy-romance (7), Western (7), Fantasy (7), crime-thriller (6), Documentary (5), Biography (5) and Horror (4).
Our average rating for Maurice Jarre over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: m = musician
La Tête contre les murs (1959) [m]
Les Étoiles de midi (1959) [m]
Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? (1959) [m]
Crack in the Mirror (1960) [m]
Les Yeux sans visage (1960) [m]
Le Puits aux trois vérités (1961) [m]
Le Temps du ghetto (1961) [m]
Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961) [m]
The Big Gamble (1961) [m]
Le Soleil dans l'oeil (1962) [m]
Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray (1962) [m]
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) [m]
Judex (1963) [m]
L'Oiseau de paradis (1963) [m]
Mourir à Madrid (1963) [m]
Ton ombre est la mienne (1963) [m]
Un roi sans divertissement (1963) [m]
Behold a Pale Horse (1964) [m]
The Train (1964) [m]
Week-end à Zuydcoote (1964) [m]
Gambit (1966) [m]
Grand Prix (1966) [m]
The Professionals (1966) [m]
La Vingt-cinquième heure (1967) [m]
The Night of the Generals (1967) [m]
5 Card Stud (1968) [m]
Isadora (1968) [m]
The Fixer (1968) [m]
Villa Rides (1968) [m]
La Caduta degli dei (1969) [m]
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) [m]
Topaz (1969) [m]
El Condor (1970) [m]
The Only Game in Town (1970) [m]
Una Stagione all'inferno (1970) [m]
Plaza Suite (1971) [m]
Pope Joan (1972) [m]
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) [m]
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) [m]
Ash Wednesday (1973) [m]
The MacKintosh Man (1973) [m]
Grandeur nature (1974) [m]
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) [m]
Mandingo (1975) [m]
Mr. Sycamore (1975) [m]
Posse (1975) [m]
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) [m]
Shout at the Devil (1976) [m]
The Last Tycoon (1976) [m]
The Message (1976) [m]
March or Die (1977) [m]
The Prince and the Pauper (1977) [m]
La Tortue sur le dos (1978) [m]
Two Solitudes (1978) [m]
The Magician of Lublin (1979) [m]
Winter Kills (1979) [m]
Resurrection (1980) [m]
The American Success Company (1980) [m]
The Black Marble (1980) [m]
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980) [m]
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981) [m]
Lion of the Desert (1981) [m]
Taps (1981) [m]
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982) [m]
Firefox (1982) [m]
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) [m]
Young Doctors in Love (1982) [m]
Au nom de tous les miens (1983) [m]
Dreamscape (1984) [m]
Top Secret! (1984) [m]
Enemy Mine (1985) [m]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) [m]
The Bride (1985) [m]
Witness (1985) [m]
Solarbabies (1986) [m]
Tai-Pan (1986) [m]
The Mosquito Coast (1986) [m]
Fatal Attraction (1987) [m]
Gaby: A True Story (1987) [m]
Giulia e Giulia (1987) [m]
Le Palanquin des larmes (1987) [m]
No Way Out (1987) [m]
Distant Thunder (1988) [m]
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) [m]
Moon Over Parador (1988) [m]
Wildfire (1988) [m]
Chances Are (1989) [m]
Dead Poets Society (1989) [m]
Enemies: A Love Story (1989) [m]
Prancer (1989) [m]
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) [m]
Almost an Angel (1990) [m]
Ghost (1990) [m]
Jacob's Ladder (1990) [m]
Solar Crisis (1990) [m]
Fires Within (1991) [m]
Only the Lonely (1991) [m]
School Ties (1992) [m]
Shadow of the Wolf (1992) [m]
Fearless (1993) [m]
Mr. Jones (1993) [m]
A Walk in the Clouds (1995) [m]
The Sunchaser (1996) [m]
Sunshine (1999) [m]
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) [m]
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The Golden Age of French cinema
The very best of German cinema
