John Debney
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt. Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004). The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979. After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler. In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5. Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators. Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas. He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Debney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Sweatbox
(Self)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
(Music Man)
Score: A Film Music Documentary
(Self)
The Strongest Man in the World
(John (Student))
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
(Self)
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
(Self)
Silent Night: A Song for the World
(Self)
By His Wounds We Are Healed: Making 'The Passion of the Christ'
Sin City
(Original Music Composer)
Bruce Almighty
(Original Music Composer)
The Passion of the Christ
(Original Music Composer)
Dragonfly
(Original Music Composer)
Elf
(Original Music Composer)
The Replacements
(Original Music Composer)
The Tuxedo
(Original Music Composer)
Hocus Pocus
(Original Music Composer)
Heartbreakers
(Original Music Composer)
The Whole Ten Yards
(Original Music Composer)
Barnyard
(Conductor)
Cats & Dogs
(Original Music Composer)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
(Original Music Composer)
The Relic
(Original Music Composer)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(Original Music Composer)
Zathura: A Space Adventure
(Original Music Composer)
Snow Dogs
(Original Music Composer)
Gunmen
(Original Music Composer)
The Scorpion King
(Original Music Composer)
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
(Original Music Composer)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
(Original Music Composer)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
(Original Music Composer)
The Ant Bully
(Original Music Composer)
Barnyard
(Original Music Composer)
My Best Friend's Girl
(Original Music Composer)
Predators
(Original Music Composer)
Chicken Little
(Original Music Composer)
The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour
(Music)
Jetsons: The Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Dream House
(Original Music Composer)
Come Away
(Original Music Composer)
The Three Stooges
(Original Music Composer)
Jobs
(Original Music Composer)
Hypnotic
(Additional Music)
The Call
(Original Music Composer)
In Pursuit of Honor
(Original Music Composer)
Clifford the Big Red Dog
(Original Music Composer)
Kansas
(Music)
The Seed
(Music)
League of Gods
(Original Music Composer)
Spy Kids: Armageddon
(Original Music Composer)
Walk of Shame
(Original Music Composer)
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
(Original Music Composer)
Ice Age: Collision Course
(Original Music Composer)
Running Mates
(Music)
Home Sweet Home Alone
(Original Music Composer)
Trenchcoat in Paradise
(Music)
Luck
(Original Music Composer)
Class of '61
(Music)
Hocus Pocus 2
(Original Music Composer)
Lake of Death
(Original Music Composer)
Into the Badlands
(Original Music Composer)
Draft Day
(Original Music Composer)
American Underdog
(Original Music Composer)
For Love and Glory
(Music)
End of Days
(Original Music Composer)
Justice League of America
(Original Music Composer)
The Hot Chick
(Original Music Composer)
The Princess Diaries
(Original Music Composer)
Liar Liar
(Original Music Composer)
Chameleon
(Music)
Runaway Brain
(Music)
Getting Away with Murder
(Original Music Composer)
The Double
(Original Music Composer)
Fitness and Me: Why Exercise?
(Original Music Composer)
Marry Me
(Original Music Composer)
Dick
(Original Music Composer)
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
(Music)
Asteroid Hunters
(Original Music Composer)
Iron Man 2
(Original Music Composer)
Spy Kids
(Original Music Composer)
Meet Dave
(Original Music Composer)
Alex Cross
(Original Music Composer)
Michael Jordan to the Max
(Music)
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
(Original Music Composer)
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
(Original Music Composer)
Scrat: Spaced Out
(Original Music Composer)
Yogi's Great Escape
(Songs)
The Day My Kid Went Punk
(Music)
Doctor Who
(Original Music Composer)
Little Giants
(Original Music Composer)
Welcome to Mooseport
(Original Music Composer)
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
(Original Music Composer)
The Emperor's New Groove
(Original Music Composer)
A Thousand Words
(Original Music Composer)
Valentine's Day
(Original Music Composer)
Hannah Montana: The Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Bad Luck Spot!
(Music)
Swimfan
(Original Music Composer)
Carpool
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who
(Theme Song Performance)
The Garfield Movie
(Conductor)
Sudden Death
(Original Music Composer)
The Flintstones: Hollyrock a Bye Baby
(Original Music Composer)
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
(Original Music Composer)
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
(Original Music Composer)
80 for Brady
(Original Music Composer)
Isn't It Romantic
(Original Music Composer)
Beirut
(Original Music Composer)
Flint
(Original Music Composer)
The Jungle Book
(Original Music Composer)
Mother's Day
(Original Music Composer)
The Young Messiah
(Original Music Composer)
The Cobbler
(Original Music Composer)
Stonehearst Asylum
(Original Music Composer)
New Year's Eve
(Original Music Composer)
The Change-Up
(Original Music Composer)
Swing Vote
(Original Music Composer)
Georgia Rule
(Original Music Composer)
Idlewild
(Original Music Composer)
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
(Original Music Composer)
The Pacifier
(Original Music Composer)
Christmas with the Kranks
(Original Music Composer)
See Spot Run
(Original Music Composer)
Relative Values
(Original Music Composer)
Inspector Gadget
(Original Music Composer)
My Favorite Martian
(Original Music Composer)
Paulie
(Original Music Composer)
Cutthroat Island
(Original Music Composer)
Everyone's Hero
(Original Music Composer)
In Your Dreams
(Original Music Composer)
I'll Be Home for Christmas
(Original Music Composer)
Aliens in the Attic
(Original Music Composer)
Yogi Bear
(Original Music Composer)
Home Again
(Original Music Composer)
Space Cadet
(Original Music Composer)
The Greatest Showman
(Original Music Composer)
Raising Helen
(Original Music Composer)
No Strings Attached
(Original Music Composer)
Malibu's Most Wanted
(Original Music Composer)
Old Dogs
(Original Music Composer)
The Turn of the Screw
(Music)
Carmilla
(Music)
The Eyes of the Panther
(Music)
Chiefs
(Original Music Composer)
Sport Goofy in Soccermania
(Music)
Praying Mantis
(Music)
The Garfield Movie
(Original Music Composer)
Brian Banks
(Original Music Composer)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
(Original Music Composer)
The Halloween Tree
(Original Music Composer)
Hotel for Dogs
(Original Music Composer)
The Beach Bum
(Original Music Composer)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
(Conductor)
The Relic
(Conductor)
Liar Liar
(Conductor)
Sin City
(Conductor)
Sudden Death
(Conductor)
Deer in the Works
(Music)
Zathura: A Space Adventure
(Conductor)
Komodo
(Original Music Composer)
Sextuplets
(Original Music Composer)
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
(Original Music Composer)
Sunstroke
(Music)
Backstage at Disney
(Music)
G-Saviour
(Original Music Composer)
Evan Almighty
(Original Music Composer)
DTV: Monster Hits
(Additional Music)
The Town Santa Forgot
(Original Music Composer)
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
(Original Music Composer)
Houseguest
(Original Music Composer)
Rose Petal Place: Real Friends
(Music)
Lost & Found
(Original Music Composer)
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
(Original Music Composer)
Still Not Quite Human
(Original Music Composer)
I Yabba Dabba Do!
(Original Music Composer)
Jonny's Golden Quest
(Original Music Composer)
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
(Original Music Composer)
Duma
(Original Music Composer)
Keeping Up with the Steins
(Original Music Composer)
The Stoning of Soraya M.
(Original Music Composer)
Broken Horses
(Original Music Composer)
I Still Believe
(Original Music Composer)
Under the Boardwalk
(Original Music Composer)
The Man with the Bag
(Original Music Composer)
By His Wounds We Are Healed: Making 'The Passion of the Christ'
(Music)
The Garfield Movie 2
(Music)
In Your Dreams
(Conductor)
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(Original Music Composer)
Hocus Pocus: Gooble, Gooble, We're in Trouble
(Music)
Houdini
(Music)
Point of Honor
(Music)
American Odyssey
(Music)
Fame
(Original Music Composer)
Texas Rising
(Music)
The Orville
(Music)
Santa Clarita Diet
(Music)
Cagney & Lacey
(Music)
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
(Original Music Composer)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Music)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
(Music)
Against the Grain
(Music)
Tiny Toon Adventures
(Music)
Young Sheldon
(Original Music Composer)
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
(Sound)