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# Mark Adler

## Identity

Mark Adler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-adler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-adler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0012206
- **TMDB ID:** 3278
- **Wikidata ID:** Q64632478
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64632478, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012206/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3278

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Active:** 1984–1988
- **Also known as:** Марк Адлер
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64632478, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012206/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3278

## Biography

Mark Adler is an American composer, orchestrator, conductor and music editor. He graduated from the film school at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied film scoring with David Raksin, and earlier received an American Film Institute grant for a screenplay. As a teenager he created an animated short film acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Adler scored feature films including *Food, Inc.* (2008) and its sequel, *Bottle Shock* (2008) and *Picture Bride* (1994). He wrote and produced source music for *The Unbearable Lightness of Being* (1988) and *Henry & June* (1990), and worked as a music editor on *Amadeus* (1984), *Blue Velvet* (1986) and *The Godfather Part III* (1990). His television credits include the Emmy-winning score for the HBO film *The Rat Pack* (1998) and a nomination for *Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone* (1997). He is a former vice-president of the Society of Composers and Lyricists and has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

*Sources: encyclopedia.com, markadler.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Unbearable Lightness of Being* (1988), Fi1m 74, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, Music Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

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

- *The Stroll* (2024), Music
- *Food, Inc. 2* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Looking Glass* (2018), Music
- *Women of the Gulag* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Free to Play* (2014), Music
- *Ticket Out* (2012), Music
- *A Smile as Big as the Moon* (2012), Music
- *When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Lost Valentine* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Love Hurts* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Food, Inc.* (2008), Music
- *Bottle Shock* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Nobel Son* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Hollywood Chinese* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Ron Clark Story* (2006), Music
- *Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America* (2006), Music
- *The Fall of Fujimori* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Bataan Rescue* (2003), Music
- *The Olive Harvest* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Family Fundamentals* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Leo* (2002), Music
- *Focus* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Follow the Stars Home* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Above Suspicion* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Cupid & Cate* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *A Tale of Two Bunnies* (2000), Music
- *Flowers for Algernon* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Apartment Complex* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Noble Horse* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Rat Pack* (1998), as Bandleader (uncredited) · Original Music Composer
- *National Geographic's Storm of the Century* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Ernest in the Army* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Influenza 1918* (1998), Music
- *Okavango: Africa's Wild Oasis* (1996), Music
- *Decoy* (1995), Music
- *Slam Dunk Ernest* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Picture Bride* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Coming Out Under Fire* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal* (1993), Sound
- *N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *High Art* (1991), Additional Music
- *Zebras: Patterns in the Grass* (1991), Music
- *The Godfather Part III* (1990), Music Editor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-godfather-part-iii.md)
- *Henry & June* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive* (1989), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Eat a Bowl of Tea* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Break of Dawn* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Tucker: The Man and His Dream* (1988), Music Editor
- *The Unbearable Lightness of Being* (1988), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being.md)
- *Heat and Sunlight* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *A Whopping Small Dinosaur!* (1987), Music
- *River's Edge* (1986), Music Editor
- *Prehistoric Beast* (1984), Music
- *Amadeus* (1984), Music Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *The Journeys of Harry Crosby*, Music

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