# Michael Small

Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer known for his scores to thriller movies such as Klute, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber.

## Personal life

Small was born in New York City but grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. His father, Jack Small, was an actor and later, the general manager of the Shubert Theater in New York City. Small did his undergraduate work at Williams College where he was graduated with a degree in English. He later studied for a year at Harvard University.
Small died from prostate cancer on November 24, 2003, at the age of 64.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1969 | Out of It | Paul Williams | |
| 1970 | Jenny | George Bloomfield | |
| 1970 | Light | Paul Cohen | |
| 1970 | The Revolutionary | Paul Williams | |
| 1970 | Puzzle of a Downfall Child | Jerry Schatzberg | |
| 1971 | The Sporting Club | Larry Peerce | soundtrack Buddah Records BDS 95002 |
| 1971 | Klute | Alan J. Pakula | soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1016 |
| 1972 | Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | Paul Williams | soundtrack Warner Bros. 7557 (7" promo) |
| 1972 | Child's Play | Sidney Lumet | |
| 1973 | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1973 | Portrait of a Railroad | Harvey Lloyd | soundtrack Atco Records 23898 |
| 1974 | The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305 |
| 1975 | The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Arthur Penn | |
| 1975 | The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | |
| 1976 | Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305 |
| 1977 | Pumping Iron | George Butler Robert Fiore | |
| 1977 | Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | |
| 1978 | The Driver | Walter Hill | soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33 |
| 1978 | Girlfriends | Claudia Weill | |
| 1978 | Comes a Horseman | Alan J. Pakula | soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 61 |
| 1979 | The China Syndrome | James Bridges | unused score Intrada Special Collection 110 |
| 1979 | Going in Style | Martin Brest | |
| 1980 | The Lathe of Heaven (TV) | Fred Barzyk David Loxton | |
| 1980 | The Boy Who Drank Too Much (TV) | Jerrold Freedman | |
| 1980 | Those Lips, Those Eyes | Michael Pressman | |
| 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | |
| 1981 | Continental Divide | Michael Apted | |
| 1981 | Rollover | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1982 | La donna giusta | Paul Williams | |
| 1983 | The Star Chamber | Peter Hyams | soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33 |
| 1983 | Chiefs (TV miniseries) | Jerry London | |
| 1984 | Kidco | Ronald F. Maxwell | soundtrack Intrada Signature Edition ISE1044 |
| 1984 | Firstborn | Michael Apted | |
| 1985 | Target | Arthur Penn | |
| 1986 | Dream Lover | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1986 | Nobody's Child | Lee Grant | |
| 1986 | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Gene Saks | soundtrack MCA Records MCA-6193 |
| 1987 | Black Widow | Bob Rafelson | soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 29 |
| 1987 | Jaws: The Revenge | Joseph Sargent | soundtrack Intrada Special Collection MSML 1001 |
| 1987 | Orphans | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1987 | Heat and Sunlight | Rob Nilsson | |
| 1988 | 1969 | Ernest Thompson | |
| 1989 | See You in the Morning | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Bob Rafelson | soundtrack Polydor Records 843 013-2 |
| 1990 | American Dream | Barbara Kopple | |
| 1991 | Mobsters | Michael Karbelnikoff | soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5334 |
| 1992 | Consenting Adults | Alan J. Pakula | soundtrack Milan Records 35630 |
| 1993 | Alex Haley's Queen (TV) | John Erman | |
| 1994 | Wagons East | Peter Markle | soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5533 |
| 1998 | Poodle Springs (TV) | Bob Rafelson | |
| 1998 | Into My Heart | Sean Smith Anthony Stark | |
| 1999 | American Masters "Norman Rockwell: Painting America" (TV) | Elena Mannes | |
| 2000 | The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV) | Paul Monash | |
| 2000 | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | George Butler | |
| 2001 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (TV) | Richard Pearce | original music |
| 2001–2002 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series) | Timothy Hutton John L'Ecuyer George Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Michael Jaffe John R. Pepper James Tolkan Holly Dale | |