---
name: "David Amram"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-amram"
fi1m_id: "david-amram"
imdb_id: "nm0025371"
tmdb_id: 14725
wikidata_id: "Q1173090"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "17 November 1930"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:43:45.915440+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."
---

# David Amram

## Identity

David Amram

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-amram
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-amram
- **IMDb ID:** nm0025371
- **TMDB ID:** 14725
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1173090
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025371/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14725

Composer. Born 17 November 1930 in New York, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 17 November 1930, New York, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1961–1962
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025371/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14725

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Manchurian Candidate*](https://film.one/film/the-manchurian-candidate.md) (88)

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## Biography

David Amram (born 17 November 1930) is an American composer, arranger and conductor. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, George Washington University and the Manhattan School of Music.

Amram composed incidental music for the New York Shakespeare Festival from 1956, working on 25 productions including Shakespeare in the Park. He wrote the scores for the films *Splendor in the Grass* (1961) and *The Manchurian Candidate* (1962), as well as *The Young Savages* (1961) and *The Arrangement* (1969). In 1966–67 he was the first composer-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Manchurian Candidate* (1962), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-manchurian-candidate.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *New Homeland* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *River of Fundament* (2014), as Wake Guest
- *Wisdom* (2008), Actor
- *Walker Evans / America* (2000), Music
- *A History of America* (2000), series, Music
- *The Source* (1999), Sound
- *Pigeon Feathers* (1988), Music
- *The Arrangement* (1969), Music, Music Editor
- *Hamlet* (1964), Music
- *Seven Days in May* (1964), Musician
- *The Manchurian Candidate* (1962), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-manchurian-candidate.md)
- *Splendor in the Grass* (1961), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *The Young Savages* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Pull My Daisy* (1959), as Mez McGillicuddy · Music
- *Startime* (1959), series, Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Bard of the Village*, Actor

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