After years of composing music for stage shows, Yale-educated David Shire plunged into film scoring with 1971's One More Train to Rob. The soundtrack album of Shire's incidental score for Saturday Night Fever won him a 1977 Grammy Award, while his single "It Goes Like It Goes," written for 1979's Norma Rae, earned him an Oscar. In addition, Shire won a Tony for his work on the 1983 Broadway musical Baby and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his 1989 off-Broadway effort Closer Than Ever; he was further Oscar-nominated for The Promise (1978), and was honored with Emmy nominations for his TV-movie scores for Raid on Entebbe (1977), The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1979), Do You Remember Love? (1985). Among his other contributions to television was "There's a New Girl in Town," the theme song for the 1976-85 sitcom Alice, which Shire wrote in collaboration with Marilyn Bergman. Never confining himself to any one style, Shire has a gift for choosing the right musical milieu for each of his projects; for the climactic sequences of 1985's Return to Oz, for example, he decided upon a ragtime cadence, a style indigenous to the era in which L. Frank Baum wrote his "Oz" stories. In 1970, David Shire married Francis Ford Coppola's sister Talia, who continued to bill herself as Talia Shire long after their divorce; Shire's second wife, whom he wed in 1984, was actress Didi Conn.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Composer (Music Score) |
2009 | |||
Lights! Action! Music!
Participant |
2007 | |||
Zodiac
Composer (Music Score) |
2007 | |||
The Tollbooth
Composer (Music Score) |
2004 | |||
Ash Wednesday
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
Two Against Time
Composer (Music Score) |
2002 | |||
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Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery
Composer (Music Score) |
2000 | |||
Double Platinum
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End
Composer (Music Score) |
1999 | |||
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I Married a Monster
Composer (Music Score) |
1998 | |||
Rear Window
Composer (Music Score) |
1998 | |||
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Ms. Scrooge
Composer (Music Score) |
1997 | |||
Jake's Women
Composer (Music Score) |
1996 | |||
One Night Stand
Songwriter |
1995 | |||
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Composer (Music Score) |
1995 | |||
Lily in Winter
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
Reunion
Composer (Music Score) |
1994 | |||
Danielle Steel's 'Heartbeat'
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
Four Eyes and Six Guns
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
Skylark
Composer (Music Score) |
1993 | |||
Bed and Breakfast
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
Bed of Lies
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
Broadway Bound
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
Last Wish
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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Nightmare in the Daylight
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
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The Habitation of Dragons
Composer (Music Score) |
1992 | |||
Paris Trout
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
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The Boys
Composer (Music Score) |
1991 | |||
A Promise to Keep
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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Always Remember I Love You
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
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The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Composer (Music Score) |
1990 | |||
I Know My First Name Is Steven
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
The Women of Brewster Place
Composer (Music Score) |
1989 | |||
God Bless the Child
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
Jesse
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
Monkey Shines
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
Vice Versa
Composer (Music Score) |
1988 | |||
Backfire
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
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Convicted: A Mother's Story
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
Echoes in the Darkness
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
Mayflower Madam
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
'Night, Mother
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Promise
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
Short Circuit
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
The Blue Yonder
Composer (Music Score) |
1986 | |||
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Do You Remember Love?
Composer (Music Score) |
1985 | |||
Return to Oz
Composer (Music Score) |
1985 | |||
2010
Composer (Music Score) |
1984 | |||
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Alice: Season 09
Composer (Music Score) |
1984 | |||
Oh, God! You Devil
Composer (Music Score) |
1984 | |||
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Alice: Season 08
Composer (Music Score) |
1983 | |||
Max Dugan Returns
Composer (Music Score) |
1983 | |||
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Alice: Season 07
Composer (Music Score) |
1982 | |||
The World According to Garp
Composer (Music Score), Musical Arrangement |
1982 | |||
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Alice: Season 06
Composer (Music Score) |
1981 | |||
Only When I Laugh
Composer (Music Score) |
1981 | |||
Paternity
Composer (Music Score) |
1981 | |||
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Composer (Music Score) |
1981 | |||
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Alice: Season 05
Composer (Music Score) |
1980 | |||
The Earthling
Songwriter |
1980 | |||
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Alice: Season 04
Composer (Music Score) |
1979 | |||
Fast Break
Composer (Music Score) |
1979 | |||
Norma Rae
Composer (Music Score) |
1979 | |||
Old Boyfriends
Composer (Music Score) |
1979 | |||
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Alice: Season 03
Composer (Music Score) |
1978 | |||
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Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This
Composer (Music Score) |
1978 | |||
Straight Time
Composer (Music Score) |
1978 | |||
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Composer (Music Score) |
1978 | |||
The Promise
Composer (Music Score) |
1978 | |||
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Alice: Season 02
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
Raid on Entebbe
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
Saturday Night Fever
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
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Something for Joey
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
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The Storyteller
Composer (Music Score) |
1977 | |||
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Alice: Season 01
Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
All the President's Men
Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
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Amelia Earhart
Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Actor, Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
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McCloud: Season 07
Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
The Big Bus
Composer (Music Score) |
1976 | |||
Farewell, My Lovely
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
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McCloud: Season 06
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
The Fortune
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1975 | |||
The Hindenburg
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
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The Oregon Trail
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
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Try to Catch a Saint
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
Winner Take All
Composer (Music Score) |
1975 | |||
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Killer Bees
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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Lucas Tanner
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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McCloud: Season 05
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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Sidekicks
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
The Conversation
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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The Godchild
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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The Healers
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
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The Tribe
Composer (Music Score) |
1974 | |||
Class of '44
Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score) |
1973 | |||
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Isn't It Shocking?
Composer (Music Score) |
1973 | |||
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McCloud: Season 04
Composer (Music Score) |
1973 | |||
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Showdown
Composer (Music Score) |
1973 | |||
Steelyard Blues
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1973 | |||
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Two People
Composer (Music Score) |
1973 | |||
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McCloud: Season 03
Composer (Music Score) |
1972 | |||
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To Find a Man
Composer (Music Score) |
1972 | |||
Drive, He Said
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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Harpy
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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Marriage: Year One
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
McCloud: Season 02
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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One More Train to Rob
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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See the Man Run
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
Skin Game
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
Summertree
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1971 | |||
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The Impatient Heart
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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The Priest Killer
Composer (Music Score) |
1971 | |||
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McCloud: Season 01
Composer (Music Score) |
1970 | |||
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McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?
Composer (Music Score) |
1970 |
