---
name: "Graeme Revell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/graeme-revell"
fi1m_id: "graeme-revell"
imdb_id: "nm0006251"
tmdb_id: 5912
wikidata_id: "Q920963"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "23 October 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T04:00:33.449039+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."
---

# Graeme Revell

## Identity

Graeme Revell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/graeme-revell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** graeme-revell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006251
- **TMDB ID:** 5912
- **Wikidata ID:** Q920963
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Revell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q920963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006251/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5912

Composer. Born 23 October 1955 in Auckland, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 23 October 1955, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Active:** 1989–2005
- **Frequently works with:** [Ernie Hudson](https://film.one/person/ernie-hudson.md), [Juliette Lewis](https://film.one/person/juliette-lewis.md), [Michael Wincott](https://film.one/person/michael-wincott.md), [Robert Rodriguez](https://film.one/person/robert-rodriguez.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 73 (1), 1990s 75 (1), 2000s 62 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 63 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Crime 2, Horror 2, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $467m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Revell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q920963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006251/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5912

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*From Dusk Till Dawn*](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md) (75)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Dead Calm*](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md) (73)
- **Apple TV:** [*Lara Croft: Tomb Raider*](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md) (48)

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

## Biography

Graeme Revell is a New Zealand musician and composer. Born in Auckland, he attended Auckland Grammar School and graduated from the University of Auckland with degrees in economics and political science. He is classically trained as a pianist and French horn player. In the late 1970s he co-founded the industrial band SPK while working as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital, later working as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia.

Since the 1990s Revell has worked primarily as a film score composer. His credits include *Dead Calm* (1989), *The Crow* (1994), *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996), *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), *Daredevil* (2003) and *Sin City* (2005). He has frequently collaborated with director David Twohy on films including *Pitch Black* (2000) and the Riddick franchise.

Revell has received eight BMI Film Music Awards, including the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award, and an AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmmusic.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Sin City* (2005), Fi1m 75, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/sin-city.md)
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Fi1m 48, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996), Fi1m 75, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md)
- *Dead Calm* (1989), Fi1m 73, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md)

## Complete filmography (97)

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

- *Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay* (2015), Actor
- *Riddick* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Last Will. & Testament* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The River* (2012), series, Music
- *Shark Night 3D* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Experiment* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Unthinkable* (2010), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Days of Wrath* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Pineapple Express* (2008), Conductor, Original Music Composer
- *Street Kings* (2008), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *The Ruins* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Awake* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Marigold* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Condemned* (2007), Music
- *Planet Terror* (2007), Music
- *Grindhouse* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Bordertown* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Man of the Year* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Æon Flux* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *The Fog* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Goal!* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Harsh Times* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Sin City* (2005), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/sin-city.md)
- *Assault on Precinct 13* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Open Water* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Chronicles of Riddick* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Walking Tall* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Out of Time* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Freddy vs. Jason* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Daredevil* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Compositor
- *Below* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *High Crimes* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Collateral Damage* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Human Nature* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *Anne Frank: The Whole Story* (2001), series, Original Music Composer
- *Attraction* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Blow* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Double Take* (2001), Music
- *Frank Herbert's Dune* (2000), series, Original Music Composer
- *Red Planet* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Titan A.E.* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Gossip* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Buddy Boy* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Pitch Black* (2000), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *The Insider* (1999), Additional Music — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-insider.md)
- *Three to Tango* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Bats* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Idle Hands* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Siege* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Bride of Chucky* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Lulu on the Bridge* (1998), Music
- *Phoenix* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Strike!* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Negotiator* (1998), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Hit* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Chinese Box* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Suicide Kings* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Spawn* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Saint* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Crow: City of Angels* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Fled* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *The Craft* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Race the Sun* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md)
- *Strange Days* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Tie That Binds* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Basketball Diaries* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Tank Girl* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *S.F.W.* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Street Fighter* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *The Crow* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *No Escape* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Ghost in the Machine* (1993), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *Faraway, So Close!* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Hard Target* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *The Crush* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Hear No Evil* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Boxing Helena* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Body of Evidence* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Traces of Red* (1992), Music
- *Love Crimes* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *The Hand That Rocks the Cradle* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *The People Under the Stairs* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Until the End of the World* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Till There Was You* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Psycho IV: The Beginning* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Child's Play 2* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Bangkok Hilton* (1989), series, Music
- *Spontaneous Combustion* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Dead Calm* (1989), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md)
- *S.P.K.: Two Autopsy Films: Human Postmortem* (1983), Music
- *S.P.K. Despair* (1982), Actor

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