---
name: "Ira Hearshen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ira-hearshen"
fi1m_id: "ira-hearshen"
imdb_id: "nm0372548"
tmdb_id: 21637
roles: ["Orchestrator"]
born: "30 November 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T01:26:11.483722+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."
---

# Ira Hearshen

## Identity

Ira Hearshen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ira-hearshen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ira-hearshen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0372548
- **TMDB ID:** 21637
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21637

Orchestrator. Born 30 November 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.

## Details

- **Work:** Orchestrator
- **Born:** 30 November 1948, Detroit, Michigan
- **Active:** 1998–1999
- **Also known as:** Ira Heashin
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Animation 2, Family 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,105m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21637

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Rush Hour*](https://film.one/film/rush-hour.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Ira Hearshen is an American composer, arranger and orchestrator. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he received a Bachelor of Music degree from Wayne State University and later studied orchestration at the Grove School of Music in Los Angeles.

He began working in film and television music in the early 1980s, providing orchestrations and arrangements for composers including Randy Newman, Lalo Schifrin and others. His credits include the complete orchestral scores for the *Rush Hour* films (1998–2007), orchestrations on *A Bug's Life* (1998), *Toy Story 2* (1999), *Cars 2* (2011) and *Meet the Fockers* (2004), and arrangements for the Oscar-winning song "If I Didn't Have You" from *Monsters, Inc.* (2001). He has also composed concert works, two of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

*Sources: discogs.com, thescl.com, filmtracks.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Toy Story 2* (1999), Fi1m 89, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story-2.md)
- *A Bug's Life* (1998), Fi1m 73, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md)
- *Rush Hour* (1998), Fi1m 70, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/rush-hour.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Cars 2* (2011), Orchestrator
- *Meet the Fockers* (2004), Orchestrator — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/meet-the-fockers.md)
- *Bringing Down the House* (2003), Orchestrator
- *It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie* (2002), Orchestrator
- *The Transporter* (2002), Orchestrator
- *Toy Story 2* (1999), Orchestrator — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story-2.md)
- *The Best Man* (1999), Orchestrator
- *A Bug's Life* (1998), Orchestrator — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md)
- *Rush Hour* (1998), Music — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rush-hour.md)
- *Babes in Toyland* (1997), Orchestrator
- *The Whipping Boy* (1994), Orchestrator
- *The Beverly Hillbillies* (1993), Orchestrator

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