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name: "Harold Budd"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harold-budd"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "24 May 1936"
died: "8 December 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:18:19.079345+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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# Harold Budd

Composer. Born 24 May 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 8 December 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 24 May 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 8 December 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Budd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728029, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118912/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68439

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*I Know This Much Is True*](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md) (63)

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## Biography

Harold Budd was an American composer and pianist. Born in Los Angeles in 1936 and raised in the Mojave Desert, he studied music at the University of Southern California, graduating in 1966. He became known for minimalist and ambient works, developing a signature 'soft pedal' piano technique characterised by slow playing and sustained resonance.

Budd contributed original music to the films *Mysterious Skin* (2005) and *White Bird in a Blizzard* (2014), both in collaboration with Robin Guthrie. He composed the score for the HBO series *I Know This Much Is True* (2020), marking his television scoring debut. He also collaborated extensively with Brian Eno and others. Budd died in Arcadia, California, in December 2020.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmmusicreporter.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Know This Much Is True* (2020), Fi1m 63, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno* (2020), Acting
- *I Know This Much Is True* (2020), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/i-know-this-much-is-true.md)
- *White Bird in a Blizzard* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Native Clays* (2008), Music
- *Mysterious Skin* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Oceano Atlantis* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Denial* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Dolphins* (1987), Music
- *Odyssey* (1986), Music
- *End of August* (1974), Music
- *The Kumbha Mela: Same As It Ever Was*, Music

## Gallery

- ![Harold Budd in Japan](https://film.one/media/person/707345/gallery-595f3c57aa50.jpg) Harold Budd in Japan — Masao Nakagami, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Harold_Budd.jpg/1280px-Harold_Budd.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harold Budd](https://film.one/media/person/707345/gallery-e30764a232d9.jpg) Harold Budd — Masao Nakagami, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Harold_Budd_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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