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name: "Chad Cannon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chad-cannon"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:41:04.241320+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."
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# Chad Cannon

Composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136405700, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6647978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1823568

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*American Factory*](https://film.one/film/american-factory.md) (78)

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## Biography

Chad Cannon is an American composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied at Harvard University and the Juilliard School.

He began working in film music as an assistant orchestrator for Conrad Pope on scores including Howard Shore’s *The Hobbit* trilogy and Alexandre Desplat’s *Godzilla* (2014) and *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016). Cannon has also collaborated extensively with Joe Hisaishi, serving as lead orchestrator and arranger for Hisaishi’s Studio Ghibli concert tours.

His composing credits include the score for the documentary *American Factory* (2019). He has worked on other projects such as *Hidden Letters* (2022) and *Exposing Muybridge*, for which he received a News & Documentary Emmy nomination.

*Sources: imdb.com, deseret.com, sltrib.com, chadcannonmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *American Factory* (2019), Fi1m 78, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/american-factory.md)

## Also known for

- *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016), Orchestrator
- *Chalk It Up* (2016), Original Music Composer

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