---
name: "Bill Stafford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-stafford"
fi1m_id: "bill-stafford"
imdb_id: "nm0821247"
tmdb_id: 6388
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:50:08.945799+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."
---

# Bill Stafford

## Identity

Bill Stafford

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-stafford
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-stafford
- **IMDb ID:** nm0821247
- **TMDB ID:** 6388
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6388

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6388

## Biography

Bill Stafford is a composer and pedal steel guitarist. He is credited as music arranger, composer and musician on Gus Van Sant's *My Own Private Idaho* (1991), for which he provided instrumental arrangements including versions of "Home on the Range" and "America the Beautiful".

Stafford has earlier credits as orchestrator on films including *Tarzan, the Ape Man* (1981), *Pete 'n' Tillie* (1972) and several 1960s productions such as *Kissin' Cousins* (1964) and *Hold On!* (1966). He received composer credits on *For Singles Only* (1968) and *The Love-Ins* (1967). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film Music in 1992 for his work on *My Own Private Idaho*.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, reference.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Own Private Idaho* (1991), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/my-own-private-idaho.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *My Own Private Idaho* (1991), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/my-own-private-idaho.md)
- *Oroya*, Music

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