Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer known for his scores to thriller movies such as Klute, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber.
Personal life
Small was born in New York City but grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. His father, Jack Small, was an actor and later, the general manager of the Shubert Theater in New York City. Small did his undergraduate work at Williams College where he graduated with a degree in English. He later studied for a year at Harvard University.
Small died from prostate cancer on November 24, 2003, at the age of 64.
Filmography Year Film Director Notes 1969 Out of It Paul Williams 1970 Jenny George Bloomfield Light Paul Cohen The Revolutionary Paul Williams Puzzle of a Downfall Child Jerry Schatzberg 1971 The Sporting Club Larry Peerce soundtrack Buddah Records BDS 95002 Klute Alan J. Pakula soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1016, Klute soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published online at buysoundtrax.com in "Soundtrax" for January 1, 2008, posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives 1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Paul Williams soundtrack Warner Bros. 7557 (7" promo) Child's Play Sidney Lumet 1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Alan J. Pakula Portrait of a Railroad Harvey Lloyd soundtrack Atco Records 23898 1974 The Parallax View Alan J. Pakula soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305 1975 The Stepford Wives Bryan Forbes Night Moves Arthur Penn The Drowning Pool Stuart Rosenberg 1976 Marathon Man John Schlesinger soundtrack Film Score Monthly FSM1305 1977 Pumping Iron George Butler Robert Fiore Audrey Rose Robert Wise 1978 The Driver Walter Hill soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33 Girlfriends Claudia Weill Comes a Horseman Alan J. Pakula soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 61[ Review], Comes a Horseman soundtrack; Ankeny, Jason, Allmusic 1979 The China Syndrome James Bridges unused score Intrada Special Collection 110 Going in Style Martin Brest 1980 The Lathe of Heaven (TV) Fred Barzyk David Loxton The Boy Who Drank Too Much (TV) Jerrold Freedman Those Lips, Those Eyes Michael Pressman 1981 The Postman Always Rings Twice Bob Rafelson Continental Divide Michael Apted Rollover Alan J. Pakula 1982 La donna giusta Paul Williams 1983 The Star Chamber Peter Hyams soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 33 Chiefs (TV miniseries) Jerry London 1984 Kidco Ronald F. Maxwell soundtrack Intrada Signature Edition ISE1044 Firstborn Michael Apted 1985 Target Arthur Penn 1986 Dream Lover Alan J. Pakula Nobody's Child Lee GrantBrighton Beach Memoirs Gene Saks soundtrack MCA Records MCA-6193 1987 Black Widow Bob Rafelson soundtrack Intrada Special Collection 29, Black Widow soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published online at mania.com in "Soundtrax" for March 16, 2006, posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives Jaws: The Revenge Joseph Sargent soundtrack Intrada Special Collection MSML 1001Orphans Alan J. Pakula Heat and Sunlight Rob Nilsson 1988 1969 Ernest Thompson 1989 See You in the Morning Alan J. Pakula 1990 Mountains of the Moon Bob Rafelson soundtrack Polydor Records 843 013-2Review, Mountains of the Moon soundtrack; Larson, Randall D., originally published in Soundtrack Magazine (volume 9, number 35, 1990), posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives American Dream Barbara Kopple 1991 Mobsters Michael Karbelnikoff soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5334 1992 Consenting Adults Alan J. Pakula soundtrack Milan Records 35630 1993 Alex Haley's Queen (TV) John Erman 1994 Wagons East Peter Markle soundtrack Varèse Sarabande VSD5533 1998 Poodle Springs (TV) Bob Rafelson Into My Heart Sean Smith Anthony Stark 1999 American Masters "Norman Rockwell: Painting America" (TV) Elena Mannes 2000 The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV) Paul Monash The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition George Butler 2001 Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (TV) Richard Pearce original music 2001–2002 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series) Timothy Hutton John L'EcuyerGeorge Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Michael Jaffe John R. Pepper James Tolkan Holly Dale
References
External links
"Michael Small Explores the Mountains of the Moon, interview by Matthias Büdinger; originally published in Soundtrack Magazine (volume 9, number 35, 1990), posted at Soundtrack: The CinemaScore and Soundtrack Archives Music cue sheet for "The Doorbell Rang" (2001), the premiere episode of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery, at The Wolfe Pack, official site of the Nero Wolfe Society Obituary in Film Score Monthly, December 5, 2003 Obituary in the Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2003 Obituary at Broadcast Music Inc., December 10, 2003 Obituary in The New York Times, December 15, 2003 Obituary in The Independent, January 3, 2004