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name: "Ben Sidran"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-sidran"
fi1m_id: "ben-sidran"
tmdb_id: 3792727
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "14 August 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:59:06.876255+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."
---

# Ben Sidran

## Identity

Ben Sidran

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-sidran
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ben-sidran
- **TMDB ID:** 3792727
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3792727

Composer. Born 14 August 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 August 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3792727

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hoop Dreams*](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md) (92)

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## Biography

Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, pianist, vocalist, producer and composer. Born in Chicago in 1943 and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, he studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before completing a PhD in American Studies at the University of Sussex in England.

Early in his career he played keyboards with the Steve Miller Band and has since produced albums for artists including Mose Allison, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones and Diana Ross. He has released numerous solo recordings and hosted radio and television programmes on jazz. Sidran composed the score for the documentary film *Hoop Dreams* (1994), on which he also served as music producer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, bensidran.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Fi1m 92, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Music — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)

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