---
name: "Alf Clausen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alf-clausen"
fi1m_id: "alf-clausen"
imdb_id: "nm0165299"
tmdb_id: 47896
wikidata_id: "Q925968"
roles: ["Orchestrator"]
born: "28 March 1941"
died: "29 May 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T18:17:33.945397+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alf Clausen

## Identity

Alf Clausen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alf-clausen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alf-clausen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0165299
- **TMDB ID:** 47896
- **Wikidata ID:** Q925968
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Clausen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47896

Orchestrator. Born 28 March 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Died 29 May 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Orchestrator
- **Born:** 28 March 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Died:** 29 May 2025
- **Active:** 1983–1989
- **Also known as:** Alf Faye Heiberg Clausen
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 5, Crime 2, Drama 2, Animation 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $287m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Clausen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47896

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88), [*Moonlighting*](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md) (82)

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## Biography

Alf Clausen (born Alf Faye Heiberg Clausen) was an American composer. He was born on 28 March 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died on 29 May 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

Clausen studied at North Dakota State University, the University of Wisconsin and Berklee College of Music. He worked as a composer and orchestrator on television series including *Moonlighting* (1985) and *ALF* (1986), and on films such as *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* (1986) and *The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!* (1988).

He is best known for his work on *The Simpsons* (1989), serving as the sole composer from 1990 to 2017 and scoring more than 560 episodes. He received two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Annie Awards for his contributions to the series, and was later credited as composer emeritus.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, simpsonswiki.com, imdb.com, pitchfork.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!* (1988), Fi1m 88, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-naked-gun-from-the-files-of-police-squad.md)
- *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* (1986), Fi1m 81, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/ferris-buellers-day-off.md)
- *Moonlighting* (1985), Fi1m 82, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)
- *Mr. Mom* (1983), Fi1m 62, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-mom.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *May the 12th Be with You* (2024), Additional Music
- *Maggie Simpson in "Rogue Not Quite One"* (2023), Additional Music
- *Half Baked* (1998), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
- *The Critic* (1994), series, Music
- *A Very Retail Christmas* (1990), Music
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Music — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *The Wickedest Witch* (1989), Music
- *She Knows Too Much* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *My First Love* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!* (1988), Orchestrator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-naked-gun-from-the-files-of-police-squad.md)
- *Police Story: The Watch Commander* (1988), Music
- *Channel 99* (1988), Music
- *Double Agent* (1987), Music
- *Number One with a Bullet* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Murder in Three Acts* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *ALF* (1986), series, Music, Original Music Composer
- *Stranded* (1986), Music
- *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* (1986), Orchestrator — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/ferris-buellers-day-off.md)
- *My Science Project* (1985), Orchestrator
- *Moonlighting* (1985), series, Music — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)
- *Mr. Mom* (1983), Orchestrator — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-mom.md)
- *Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued* (1981), Orchestrator

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