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name: "George Dreyfus"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-dreyfus"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "22 July 1928"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:28:23.059124+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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# George Dreyfus

Composer. Born 22 July 1928 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 22 July 1928, Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dreyfus, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q869751, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237833/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1323936

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Tender Mercies*](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md) (86)

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## Biography

George Dreyfus is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music, film and television scores. Born on 22 July 1928 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal), Germany, he fled Nazi persecution with his family and settled in Australia in 1939.

He studied bassoon and played in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 1953 before focusing on composition from the mid-1960s. His film and television credits include *The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox* (1963), *Dimboola* (1979) and *Tender Mercies* (1983). He received the Australia Council's Don Banks Fellowship in 1991 and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1992 for services to music.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tender Mercies* (1983), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Fringe Dwellers* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Tender Mercies* (1983), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/tender-mercies.md)
- *Break of Day* (1976), Music
- *A Steam Train Passes* (1974), Music
- *Life in Australia: Melbourne* (1966), Music
- *Life in Australia: Geelong* (1966), Music
- *Will The Great Barrier Reef Cure Claude Clough?*, Music

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2002: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- Member of the Order of Australia 1992: Member of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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