---
name: "Christopher Bear"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-bear"
fi1m_id: "christopher-bear"
imdb_id: "nm4545959"
tmdb_id: 2250802
wikidata_id: "Q5111929"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 July 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T11:11:19.708801+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."
---

# Christopher Bear

## Identity

Christopher Bear

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-bear
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-bear
- **IMDb ID:** nm4545959
- **TMDB ID:** 2250802
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5111929
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bear, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5111929, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4545959/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2250802

Composer. Born 19 July 1982 in Winfield, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 July 1982, Winfield, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 48 (1), 2020s 77 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 70 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 3, Crime 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $773m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bear, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5111929, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4545959/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2250802

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Roofman*](https://film.one/film/roofman.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Christopher Bear (born 19 July 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is a member of the indie-rock band Grizzly Bear and has contributed to projects by artists including Fleet Foxes, Beach House and Daniel Rossen’s Department of Eagles. He also records solo material under the name Fools.

Bear began scoring for film and television with work on the HBO series *High Maintenance* (2016–2020). With Rossen he composed the score for the 2023 film *Past Lives*, and he has since scored *The Passenger* (2023), *Swallowed* (2022), *If You Were the Last* (2023), *Mother, Couch* (2024), *Roofman* (2025) and the series *Adults* (2025).

*Sources: allmusic.com, en.wikipedia.org, pitchfork.com, curzon.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Carolina Caroline* (2026), Fi1m 79, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/carolina-caroline.md)
- *Roofman* (2025), Fi1m 68, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *Past Lives* (2023), Fi1m 85, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)
- *The Twilight Saga: New Moon* (2009), Fi1m 48, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/the-twilight-saga-new-moon.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza* (2026), series, Original Music Composer
- *Carolina Caroline* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/carolina-caroline.md)
- *Fantasy Life* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Omaha* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Roofman* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/roofman.md)
- *Adults* (2025), series, Original Music Composer
- *Divers* (2025), Music
- *Mother, Couch* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *If You Were the Last* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Passenger* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Past Lives* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)
- *Swallowed* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Shako Mako* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *High Maintenance* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Twilight Saga: New Moon* (2009), as Songs — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/the-twilight-saga-new-moon.md)

## Gallery

- ![Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/506/gallery-77d1455c7aa2.jpg) Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009) — tammylo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_07.jpg/1280px-Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/506/gallery-9d24cb112e41.jpg) Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009) — tammylo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_14.jpg/1280px-Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_14.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/506/gallery-b13b8a934fd8.jpg) Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009) — tammylo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_18.jpg/1280px-Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_18.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Christopher Bear](https://film.one/media/person/506/gallery-074ec8c48da7.jpg) Christopher Bear — tammylo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_23.jpg/1280px-Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_23.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/506/gallery-e17f52393c85.jpg) Grizzly Bear @ Town Hall - 05/28/09 (2009) — tammylo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_37.jpg/1280px-Grizzly_Bear_performs_at_Town_Hall%2C_May_28%2C_2009_37.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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