Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer, who scored the music for Disney films, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Parent Trap, Lilo & Stitch, and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including The Avengers films. He also composed the 1995 Hollywood Pictures sci-fi drama Judge Dredd, and the 2001 Miramax Films romance comedy Serendipity.
Silvestri was born in 1950 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School and went to Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts for two years. He started his film/television composing career in 1972 at age 21, composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang and later served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs and as additional composer for the television series Amazing Stories and Tales from the Crypt.
In 1984, he began a frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on films, like Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Beowulf, Flight, The Walk, Allied, Welcome to Marwen, The Witches and Here. He also scored other films, such as Predator, Critical Condition, Overboard, The Abyss, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Bodyguard, Grumpy Old Men, The Quick and the Dead, Sgt. Bilko, Volcano, Mouse Hunt, The Odd Couple II, Practical Magic, the first two Stuart Little movies, Reindeer Games, What Women Want, The Mummy Returns, The Mexican, Maid in Manhattan, Identity, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Van Helsing, the Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The A-Team, The Croods, RED 2, and Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One.
He also composed music for the science documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds on National Geographic for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Silvestri even shares the same exact first name as fellow composer Alan Menken who is also a frequent collaborator of Disney and Disney-related scores, as both artists have been born and raised in New York. They even work together for Capitan America: The First Avenger: Silvestri composed the main score for the film while Menken composed song "Star Spangled Man".
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1986	Flight of the Navigator 	Composer
1987	Outrageous Fortune 	Composer
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit 	ComposerConductor
1991	Father of the Bride 	Composer
1993	Super Mario Bros. 	Composer
1995	Judge Dredd 	ComposerConductor
1995	Father of the Bride Part II 	Composer
1998	The Parent Trap 	Composer
1998	Holy Man 	ComposerConductor
2001	Serendipity 	ComposerConductor
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	ComposerChoir arrangerConductor
2006	The Wild 	ComposerConductor
2009	A Christmas Carol 	ComposerLyricistConductorOrchestrator
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	ComposerConductorOrchestrator
2012	The Avengers 	ComposerConductorOrchestrator
2018	Avengers: Infinity War 	Composer
2019	Avengers: Endgame 	ComposerConductor
2022	Pinocchio 	ComposerLyricistConductorOrchestrator
2026	Avengers: Doomsday 	Composer
2027	Avengers: Secret Wars 	Composer
==Gallery==
ImagesCAEL5CFJ.jpg|Alan Silvestri speaks at the speaking at the Carmel Art & Film Festival in October 2009.
==Trivia==
*He was originally slated to compose the score for Tarzan, but was replaced by Mark Mancina.
==References==
 
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