Nick Glennie-Smith

Nick Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer whose most prominent work is in collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the scores to the 1994 animated film The Lion King and 1996 action film The Rock, the 2006 historical movie Children of Glory and the 1993 drama Point of No Return. Glennie-Smith has also written the scores for the films Home Alone 3, The Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Secretariat, and the score for the Disney 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 the soundtracks such as The Simpsons Movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Glennie-Smith is also known as the master composer of the music in the French theme park le Puy du Fou. He also accompanied Zimmer on the score for Man of Steel. He also had a brief collaboration with the former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters, his first was on the 1986 film When the Wind Blows, then some keyboard overdubbing for Waters' 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. album (namely the song "The Powers that Be"), and finally - performing 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. And in 1980, He played keyboards on Leo Sayer's album Living in a Fantasy. And again 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, The Adventures.
== Filmography ==
Year	Title 	Director(s) 	Studio(s) 	Notes
1994	The Lion King 	Roger Allers 
Rob Minkoff 	Walt Disney Studios 	(additional music) with Hans Zimmer
1996	Two If by Sea 	Bill Bennett 	Warner Bros. Pictures 	
1996	The Rock 	Michael Bay 	Hollywood Pictures 	with Hans Zimmer
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-MayerUnited Artists 	
1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride 	Darrell Rooney 	Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmentDisneyToon Studios	Direct-to-video film
1998	Max Q 	Michael Shapiro 	Touchstone TelevisionABC 	Television film
1999	Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits 	Steve Binder 	Unclear 	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
2002	We Were Soldiers 	Randall Wallace 	Paramount Pictures 	
2004	Ella Enchanted 	Tommy O'Haver 	Miramax Films 	
2004	Laura's Star 	Piet De RyckerThilo Rothkirch	Warner Bros. Pictures 	with Hans Zimmer and Henning Lohner
2005	A Sound of Thunder 	Peter Hyams 	Warner Bros. PicturesRothkirch Cartoon Film 	
2005	The Little Polar Bear 2 – The Mysterious Island	Piet De RyckerThilo Rothkirch	Warner Bros. PicturesRothkirch 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 	
==References==
==External links==
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*Page at Hans-Zimmer.com
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