---
name: "Gary DeMichele"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gary-demichele"
fi1m_id: "gary-demichele"
imdb_id: "nm0218460"
tmdb_id: 133811
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:10:44.315161+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."
---

# Gary DeMichele

## Identity

Gary DeMichele

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gary-demichele
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gary-demichele
- **IMDb ID:** nm0218460
- **TMDB ID:** 133811
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218460/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133811

Composer. Born in Highland Park, Illinois.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218460/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133811

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Big Night*](https://film.one/film/big-night.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Gary DeMichele is an American composer and musician. He studied music at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and has worked as a jazz composer, pianist, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist.

He composed the score for the 1996 film *Big Night*, directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, and has collaborated with both on several subsequent projects. His other film scores include *The Impostors* (1998), *The Secret Lives of Dentists* (2002) and *Off the Map* (2003).

DeMichele has also composed for television, including the 2000 production of *Hamlet*, and for stage works.

*Sources: chicagotribune.com, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, heraldtribune.com, garydemichele.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Big Night* (1996), Fi1m 84, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/big-night.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Camp Hell* (2010), as Hobo
- *Off the Map* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *The Secret Lives of Dentists* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Hamlet* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Impostors* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Big Night* (1996), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/big-night.md)

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