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name: "Jorge Arriagada"
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imdb_id: "nm0005948"
tmdb_id: 134463
wikidata_id: "Q776577"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "20 August 1943"
died: "8 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T01:12:25.153908+00:00"
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# Jorge Arriagada

## Identity

Jorge Arriagada

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jorge-arriagada
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jorge-arriagada
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005948
- **TMDB ID:** 134463
- **Wikidata ID:** Q776577
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Arriagada, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q776577, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005948/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134463

Composer. Born 20 August 1943 in Santiago, Chile. Died 8 October 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 20 August 1943, Santiago, Chile
- **Died:** 8 October 2024
- **Also known as:** Georges Arriagada, George Arriagada
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Arriagada, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q776577, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005948/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134463

## Biography

Jorge Arriagada (20 August 1943 – 8 October 2024) was a French-Chilean composer of film music. He studied composition and orchestral conducting at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago and later in Paris, where he received a French government scholarship. In 1972 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study electronic music at Stanford University.

From 1977 he composed scores for more than 160 films. He is best known for his long collaboration with director Raúl Ruiz, for whom he wrote music for 46 or 47 films beginning with the short *Colloque de chiens* (1977). His other credits include *It's All True* (1993), *Time Regained* (1999), *Our Lady of the Assassins* (2000), *Klimt* (2006), *The Women on the 6th Floor* (2011) and *Lines of Wellington* (2012). He also worked with directors including Patricio Guzmán, Barbet Schroeder and Olivier Assayas. In 2020 he received the Grand Prix Sacem for Music for Image.

*Sources: wellesnet.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, cinechile.cl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *It's All True* (1993), Fi1m 78, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/its-all-true.md)

## Complete filmography (119)

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

- *Behind the Rain* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Alicia bajo la higuera* (2025), Music
- *Los Herederos* (2024), Music
- *Traces* (2023), as Compositor
- *Socialist Realism* (2023), Music
- *L'Heure du départ* (2022), Music
- *Ensayo para Güemes* (2021), Music
- *The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Entierro* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Casa de Angelis* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Black Book* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Wandering Soap Opera* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Secos* (2017), Music
- *Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Sélection Officielle* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder?* (2017), Music
- *Wastelands* (2016), Music
- *Florida* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile* (2013), series, Original Music Composer
- *Cycling with Molière* (2013), Music
- *Lines of Wellington* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Night Across the Street* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Have You Seen Lupita?* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Cornelia frente al espejo* (2012), Music
- *Ballet aquatique* (2012), Music
- *Mysteries of Lisbon* (2011), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Women on the 6th Floor* (2011), Music
- *Mysteries of Lisbon* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Pour tout l'or des Andes* (2010), Music
- *The Night Visitor* (2009), Thanks
- *Nucingen House* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Secrets* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Suitcase* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Litoral* (2008), series, Original Music Composer
- *Inju: The Beast in the Shadow* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Mansacue* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *La Recta Provincia* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *La Recta Provincia* (2007), series, Original Music Composer
- *Terror's Advocate* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Mirageman* (2007), Thanks
- *Opus Dei - Una cruzada silenciosa* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Melvil* (2006), Music
- *Klimt* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *The Lost Domain* (2005), Music
- *The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Operation Hollywood* (2004), Music
- *Salvador Allende* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Days in the Country* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *El duelo* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *A Place Among the Living* (2003), Music
- *That Day* (2003), Music
- *Pronobis* (2003), Music
- *Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *El astrónomo y el indio* (2002), Music
- *Madrid* (2002), Music
- *Savage Souls* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Love Torn in a Dream* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Our Lady of the Assassins* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Comedy of Innocence* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Time Regained* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Robinson Crusoe Island* (1999), Music
- *Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Enthusiasm* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Shattered Image* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Film to Come* (1997), Music
- *Transatlantique* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Genealogies of a Crime* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *The Eyes of Asia* (1997), Music
- *Elle* (1996), Music
- *Three Lives and Only One Death* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Mi último hombre* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Wind Water* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Los náufragos* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *It's All True* (1993), Music — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/its-all-true.md)
- *The End of the World* (1993), Music
- *Urgence d'aimer* (1993), as Compositor
- *Exterior Night* (1993), Music
- *Dark at Noon* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *The Solitudes* (1992), Music
- *Cold Land* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Amelia Lópes O'Neill* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *The Sky Above Paris* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Three Crowns of the Sailor* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *The Disenchanted* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Brise-glace* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Un jeu d'enfant* (1990), Music
- *The King's Trial* (1990), Music
- *Winter's Child* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Terre sacrée* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Blind Owl* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Dog's Dialogue* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Life Is a Dream* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Burning Bush* (1987), as Compositor
- *Miracle Healing* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Professor Taranne* (1987), Music
- *Children of the Cold War* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *August 15th* (1986), Music
- *Dans un miroir* (1986), Music
- *Treasure Island* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Richard III* (1986), Music
- *The Insomniac on the Bridge* (1985), Music
- *Notre mariage* (1985), Music
- *The Terrible Lovers* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Ave Maria* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Manoel’s Destinies* (1984), Music
- *Vanishing Point* (1984), Music
- *Paris Seen By... 20 Years After* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *City of Pirates* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Manuel on the Island of Wonders* (1984), series, Original Music Composer
- *Bérénice* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Le péril rampant* (1982), Music
- *Oral Taboo* (1982), Music
- *The Conversation Is Over* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *On Top of the Whale* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *The Territory* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Snakes and Ladders* (1980), Music
- *The Suspended Vocation* (1978), Music
- *The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting* (1978), Music Editor, Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sacem Awards 2020: Sacem Awards (won)

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

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