# Nick Glennie-Smith

Nickolas Glennie-Smith is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including The Rock (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound), the 2006 historical film Children of Glory and the 1993 spy thriller Point of No Return. Glennie-Smith has also composed the scores for the films Home Alone 3, The Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Secretariat, the score for the Disney direct-to-video animated film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Lauras Stern, Der kleine Eisbär 2 - Die geheimnisvolle Insel and A Sound of Thunder.
Glennie-Smith is a part of Hans Zimmer's film score company Remote Control Productions, for which he has conducted music for the soundtracks on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He was Zimmer's accompanist on the score for Man of Steel.
Glennie-Smith is the master composer of the music in the French theme park le Puy du Fou. He has collaborated with the former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters. He worked on Waters' score for the 1986 film When the Wind Blows, then provided some of the keyboard overdubbing for the song "The Powers that Be" on Waters' 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. album. He performed at the 1990 concert The Wall Live in Berlin as a keyboardist alongside Peter Wood. He also toured in the 1980s with Cliff Richard, again playing keyboards. In 1987, he was responsible, with producer Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and singer Kenny Young, for the album Transmissions under the group name Gentlemen Without Weapons.

## Musical career

Glennie-Smith was born in London. In 1975 he started his musical career with the band Wally, performing keyboards on their second album, Valley Gardens. In 1980, he played keyboards on Leo Sayer's album Living in a Fantasy. Also in 1980, he started recording and touring with Cliff Richard, appearing on three albums, I'm No Hero (synthesizer), Wired for Sound (engineer, piano on one song), and The Rock Connection (synthesizer on one song).
Glennie-Smith is also known for his contributions to Roger Daltrey's solo albums, Under a Raging Moon, and Can't Wait to See the Movie, and Paul McCartney's solo albums Press to Play, and Flowers in the Dirt.
He has also worked with many other artists including Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Elvis Costello, Pharrell Williams, Nik Kershaw, Duane Eddy, Katrina & the Waves, and The Adventures.

## Filmography
### As primary composer

| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
| 1996 | Two If by Sea | Bill Bennett | Morgan Creek Productions Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| 1996 | The Rock | Michael Bay | Hollywood Pictures | with Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams |
| 1997 | Fire Down Below | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Warner Bros. Pictures | — |
| 1997 | Home Alone 3 | Raja Gosnell | 20th Century Fox | — |
| 1997 | Cyclops, Baby | D. J. Caruso | Touchstone Pictures | Short film |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Randall Wallace | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists | — |
| 1998 | The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | Darrell Rooney | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment DisneyToon Studios | Direct-to-video film |
| 1998 | Max Q | Michael Shapiro | Touchstone Television ABC | Television film |
| 1999 | Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits | Steve Binder | ABC Family | Television film. Reuses music from The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), The Lion King (1994), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998), and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998). |
| 2000 | Highlander: Endgame | Doug Aarniokoski | Dimension Films | with Stephen Graziano |
| 2001 | Attila | Dick Lowry | Alphaville Films | Gerard Butler |
| 2002 | We Were Soldiers | Randall Wallace | Paramount Pictures | — |
| 2004 | Ella Enchanted | Tommy O'Haver | Miramax Films | — |
| 2004 | Laura's Star | Piet De Rycker [fr] Thilo Rothkirch [de] | Warner Bros. Pictures | with Hans Zimmer and Henning Lohner |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Peter Hyams | Warner Bros. Pictures | — |
| 2005 | The Little Polar Bear 2 – The Mysterious Island | Piet De Rycker [fr] Thilo Rothkirch [de] | Warner Bros. Pictures Rothkirch Cartoon Film | with Hans Zimmer |
| 2006 | Children of Glory | Krisztina Goda | C2 Pictures | — |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Randall Wallace | Walt Disney Pictures | — |
| 2013 | A Belfast Story | Nathan Todd | Adnuco Pictures | — |
| 2014 | Heaven Is for Real | Randall Wallace | TriStar Pictures | — |
| 2021 | Laura's Star | Joya Thome | Warner Bros. Pictures | with Hans Zimmer and Henning Lohner |

### As Other

| Year | Title | Director(s) | Composer(s) | Role |
| 1986 | When the Wind Blows | Jimmy T. Murakami | Roger Waters | Musician: Synthesizers |
| 1990 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Stanley Myers | Musician: Synthesizers |
| 1991 | Cold Heaven | Nicolas Roeg | Stanley Myers | Musician: Synthesizers |
| 1991 | K2 | Franc Roddam | Hans Zimmer Chaz Jankel | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1993 | Calendar Girl | John Whitesell | Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1993 | Cool Runnings | Jon Turteltaub | Hans Zimmer | Orchestrator & Composer of Additional Music |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Bille August | Hans Zimmer | Orchestrator & Musician: Piano |
| 1994 | Monkey Trouble | Franco Amurri | Mark Mancina | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Roger Allers Rob Minkoff | Hans Zimmer | Choral Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 1994 | Renaissance Man | Penny Marshall | Hans Zimmer | Orchestrator & Composer of Additional Music |
| 1994 | Drop Zone | John Badham | Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1995 | Bad Boys | Michael Bay | Mark Mancina | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Tony Scott | Hans Zimmer | Orchestrator & Conductor |
| 1995 | Beyond Rangoon | John Boorman | Hans Zimmer | Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 1995 | Two Deaths | Nicolas Roeg | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 1995 | Nine Months | Chris Columbus | Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1996 | The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Bille August | Harry Gregson-Williams Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 2000 | The Tigger Movie | Jun Falkenstein | Harry Gregson-Williams | Conductor |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | John Woo | Hans Zimmer | Musician: Synthesizers |
| 2001 | Just Visiting | Jean-Marie Poiré | John Powell | Composer of Additional Music |
| 2002 | D-Tox | Jim Gillespie | John Powell | Composer of Additional Music |
| 2002 | The New Guy | Ed Decter | Ralph Sall | Composer of Additional Music |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Gore Verbinski | Klaus Badelt Hans Zimmer | Composer of Additional Music |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | Jonathan Frakes | Ramin Djawadi Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2004 | King Arthur | Antoine Fuqua | Hans Zimmer | Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Ron Howard | Hans Zimmer | Choral Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Gore Verbinski | Hans Zimmer | Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 2006 | Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Harry Gregson-Williams | Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Gore Verbinski | Hans Zimmer | Conductor & Composer of Additional Music |
| 2007 | Transformers | Michael Bay | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2007 | License to Wed | Ken Kwapis | Christophe Beck | Conductor |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | David Silverman | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | Pete Travis | Atli Örvarsson | Conductor |
| 2008 | The Forbidden Kingdom | Rob Minkoff | David Buckley | Conductor |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Raja Gosnell | Heitor Pereira | Conductor |
| 2009 | Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2009 | Imagine That | Karey Kirkpatrick | Mark Mancina | Conductor |
| 2009 | Surrogates | Jonathan Mostow | Richard Marvin | Conductor |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Nancy Meyers | Hans Zimmer Heitor Pereira | Conductor |
| 2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Samuel Bayer | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2010 | You Again | Andy Fickman | Nathan Wang | Conductor |
| 2010 | How Do You Know | James L. Brooks | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2011 | Rango | Gore Verbinski | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Rob Marshall | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2011 | A Little Bit of Heaven | Nicole Kassell | Heitor Pereira | Conductor |
| 2011 | Winnie the Pooh | Stephen Anderson Don Hall | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2011 | Your Highness | David Gordon Green | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Bay | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2012 | Battleship | Peter Berg | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2012 | Savages | Oliver Stone | Adam Peters | Conductor |
| 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Jon M. Chu | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2013 | This Is the End | Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2013 | Gangster Squad | Ruben Fleischer | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 | Pierre Coffin Chris Renuad | Heitor Pereira Pharrell Williams | Conductor |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Zack Snyder | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2013 | The Lone Ranger | Gore Verbinski | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim | Guillermo del Toro | Ramin Djawadi | Conductor |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2014 | Winter's Tale | Akiva Goldsman | Hans Zimmer Rupert Gregson-Williams | Conductor |
| 2014 | 300: Rise of an Empire | Zack Snyder | Junkie XL | Conductor |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Marc Webb | Hans Zimmer Pharrell Williams Johnny Marr Mike Einziger Junkie XL Steve Mazzaro Andrew Kawczynski | Conductor |
| 2014 | Million Dollar Arm | Craig Gillespie | A. R. Rahman | Conductor |
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Michael Bay | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2015 | Run All Night | Jaume Collet-Serra | Junkie XL | Conductor |
| 2015 | Pixels | Chris Columbus | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2015 | The Little Prince | Mark Osborne | Hans Zimmer Richard Harvey | Conductor |
| 2015 | Black Mass | Scott Cooper | Junkie XL | Conductor |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | Junkie XL | Conductor |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Zack Snyder | Hans Zimmer Junkie XL | Conductor |
| 2017 | Fist Fight | Richie Keen | Dominic Lewis | Conductor |
| 2017 | Sandy Wexler | Steven Brill | Rupert Gregson-Williams | Conductor |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg | Geoff Zanelli | Conductor |
| 2017 | Despicable Me 3 | Pierre Coffin Kyle Balda | Heitor Pereira | Conductor |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Michael Bay | Steve Jablonsky |
| 2017 | Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague | Tim Van Someren | Hans Zimmer | Musical director |
| 2017 | Geostorm | Dean Devlin | Lorne Balfe | Conductor |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Jake Kasdan | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2018 | Game Over, Man! | Kyle Newacheck | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2018 | Smallfoot | Karey Kirkpatrick | Heitor Pereira | Conductor |
| 2018 | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Ari Sandel | Dominic Lewis | Conductor |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Rich Moore Phil Johnston | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2018 | Aquaman | James Wan | Rupert Gregson-Williams | Conductor |
| 2019 | Dark Phoenix | Simon Kinberg | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Jon Favreau | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Joachim Rønning | Geoff Zanelli | Conductor |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Jake Kasdan | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2020 | Bad Boys for Life | Adil El ArbiBilall Fallah | Lorne Balfe | Conductor |
| 2020 | Bloodshot | David S. F. Wilson | Steve Jablonsky | Conductor |
| 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | Kyle Balda | Heitor Pereira | Booth Reader |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | David Leitch | Dominic Lewis | Conductor |
| 2022 | The Son | Florian Zeller | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| 2022 | Strange World | Don Hall | Henry Jackman | Conductor |
| 2024 | Despicable Me 4 | Chris Renaud | Heitor Pereira | Booth Reader |
| 2024 | Dear Santa | Bobby Farrelly | Rupert Gregson-Williams | Booth Reader |
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | Barry Jenkins | Dave Metzger | Songs Conductor |