---
name: "James Newberry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-newberry"
fi1m_id: "james-newberry"
imdb_id: "nm6964712"
tmdb_id: 1938144
wikidata_id: "Q136479642"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:18:17.789397+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."
---

# James Newberry

## Identity

James Newberry

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-newberry
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-newberry
- **IMDb ID:** nm6964712
- **TMDB ID:** 1938144
- **Wikidata ID:** Q136479642
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136479642, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6964712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1938144

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136479642, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6964712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1938144

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Is This Thing On?*](https://film.one/film/is-this-thing-on.md) (71)

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

## Biography

James Newberry is a film and television composer. His credits include the original score for *Is This Thing On?* (2025), directed by Bradley Cooper, and *Barron's Cove* (2025), directed by Evan Kelman.

Newberry has composed for feature films, documentaries and shorts that have screened at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, NYFF and Cannes. His documentary *Natchez* (2025) won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Tribeca Festival. He has also contributed additional music to television series such as *Presumed Innocent*, *Tokyo Vice*, *Ozark* and *Fear the Walking Dead*.

A classically trained percussionist, Newberry performs on clarinet, piano, hardware synthesizers and experimental strings. He is based in California.

*Sources: flickeringmyth.com, james-newberry.com, imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Is This Thing On?* (2025), Fi1m 71, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/is-this-thing-on.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Natchez* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Is This Thing On?* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/is-this-thing-on.md)
- *Barron's Cove* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Row of Life* (2025), Music
- *Enigma* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Presumed Innocent* (2024), series, Additional Music
- *The Mission* (2023), Additional Music
- *The Stroll* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *The Game God(S)* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Day 9* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, Additional Music
- *We're Doing Good* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Unkind* (2022), Musician
- *Wolfgang* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Parousia* (2021), Music
- *Victim No. 6* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Remember When* (2020), Music
- *Bite Size Halloween* (2020), series, Music
- *Dying in Your Mother's Arms* (2020), Music
- *Homegoing* (2020), Music
- *Con Esperanza* (2020), Music
- *Cybolica* (2019), Music
- *They Look Like Trees* (2019), Music
- *Let Me Play* (2019), Music
- *Pier Kids* (2019), Music
- *Light My Fire* (2018), Music
- *Luba* (2018), Music
- *Frederik Remembers* (2017), Music
- *Composed* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Mordeo: Insatiable Hunger* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Where There's Smoke* (2017), Music
- *Who's Afraid of the Octopus Man?* (2016), Music
- *One Good Pitch* (2016), Music
- *Walk for Me* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Search Party* (2016), Music
- *Entropic* (2016), Music
- *Bandito* (2015), Music

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/james-newberry