---
name: "Bebe Barron"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bebe-barron"
fi1m_id: "bebe-barron"
imdb_id: "nm0057638"
tmdb_id: 12305
wikidata_id: "Q276413"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "16 June 1926"
died: "20 April 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:41:32.746158+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."
---

# Bebe Barron

## Identity

Bebe Barron

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bebe-barron
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bebe-barron
- **IMDb ID:** nm0057638
- **TMDB ID:** 12305
- **Wikidata ID:** Q276413
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276413, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12305

Composer. Born 16 June 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Died 20 April 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 16 June 1926, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Died:** 20 April 2008
- **Also known as:** Charlotte May Wind
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276413, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12305

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Forbidden Planet*](https://film.one/film/forbidden-planet.md) (81)

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## Biography

Bebe Barron was an American composer and pioneer of electronic music. Born Charlotte May Wind in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she worked with her husband Louis Barron to create early electronic compositions using magnetic tape and custom-built circuits.

The couple are credited with the first entirely electronic film score, for the 1956 MGM production *Forbidden Planet*. Their work on the film was credited as “electronic tonalities” owing to a dispute with the musicians’ union. Barron had previously collaborated with John Cage on tape music projects in New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, independent.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Forbidden Planet* (1956), Fi1m 81, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/forbidden-planet.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Space Boy* (1973), Music
- *Bridges-Go-Round 1* (1958), Music
- *Forbidden Planet* (1956), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/forbidden-planet.md)
- *A Moment in Love* (1956), Music
- *Bullfight* (1955), Music
- *Bells of Atlantis* (1952), Music

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