John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest film composers of all time. 
For Disney, he is especially known for composing the scores for the Star Wars franchise and the films, both collaborating with Lucasfilm. He also composed scores for War Horse, Lincoln, and The BFG, the Steven Spielberg films produced by Disney.
==Career==
In a career spanning seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film soundtracks in cinematic history, including the Star Wars saga, , , the films, , the first two films, , , , , War Horse, Lincoln, Memoirs of a Geisha, and the first three films. He also composed music for TV series, such as , , , and . He has had a long-time collaboration with director Steven Spielberg since Jaws in 1975, and George Lucas since the original Star Wars in 1977.
Williams also composed the music for all but five of Spielberg's major feature films (those exceptions being , , Bridge of Spies, , and West Side Story). He did the score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker (where he also had a cameo as a bartender named Oma Tres). His score for the Star Wars films can be heard in Disney Infinity 3.0, Rogue One, and Solo. He composed the theme "The Adventures of Han" for Solo.John Williams - The Adventures of Han (From "Solo: A Star Wars Story"/Audio Only) Williams' son Joseph Williams performed the theme for Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and was the singing voice for adult Simba in The Lion King.
On June 24, 2022, Williams announced that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny would be his final soundtrack, and that he would subsequently retire from composing. However on January 12, 2023, it was reported that Williams ultimately decided to reverse his decision to retire, with him stating “I can’t retire from music. A day without music is a mistake.”, and jokingly compared his passion to that of Steven Spielberg’s father, Arnold Spielberg, who also composed music until he was 100, by stating “I’ll stick around for awhile,” and “I've got ten years to go,”.https://ew.com/movies/john-williams-not-retiring-after-indiana-jones-5/
==Feature Film Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
1977	Star Wars: A New Hope 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
1980	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
1981	Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 	Music 	Lucasfilm
1983	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 	Music 	Lucasfilm
1986	SpaceCamp 	Music 	ABC Motion Pictures20th Century Fox
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 	Music 	Lucasfilm
1995	Nixon 	Music 	Hollywood Pictures
1999	Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
2002	Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
2005	Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 	Music 	Lucasfilm20th Century Fox
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Music 	Lucasfilm
2011	War Horse 	Music 	Touchstone Pictures
2012	Lincoln 	Music 	Touchstone Pictures20th Century Fox
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens 	Music 	Lucasfilm
2016	The BFG 	Music 	Walt Disney Pictures
2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 	Original ThemesScore by Michael Giacchino	Lucasfilm
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi 	Music 	Lucasfilm
2018	Solo: A Star Wars Story 	Original ThemesScore by John Powell 	Lucasfilm
2019	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 	MusicCameo 	Lucasfilm
2023	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 	Music 	Walt Disney PicturesLucasfilm
==Television Series==
===Animated Series===
Year 	TV Series 	Position 	Subsidiary
2008-2020	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2015-2018	Star Wars Rebels 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2018-2020	Star Wars Resistance 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2021-2024	Star Wars: The Bad Batch 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2021- 	Star Wars: Visions 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2022- 	Star Wars: Tales 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2023- 	Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
===Live-Action Series===
Year 	TV Series 	Position 	Subsidiary
2019-2023	Star Wars: The Mandalorian 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2021-2022	Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2022 	Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2022- 	Star Wars: Andor 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2023- 	Star Wars: Ahsoka 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2024 	Star Wars: The Acolyte 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
2024- 	Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 	Original Themes	Lucasfilm
==Role==
Oma Tres.jpg|Oma Tres(Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker)
==References==
==External links==
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