---
name: "Mark Orton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-orton"
fi1m_id: "mark-orton"
imdb_id: "nm0651366"
tmdb_id: 41301
wikidata_id: "Q18352835"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-23T04:06:16.570592+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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# Mark Orton

## Identity

Mark Orton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-orton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-orton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0651366
- **TMDB ID:** 41301
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18352835
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Orton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18352835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651366/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41301

Composer. Born 1 January 1968 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1968, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Alexander Payne](https://film.one/person/alexander-payne.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Orton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18352835, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651366/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41301

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Holdovers*](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Mark Orton is an American composer and musician. He composed the score for the 2023 film *The Holdovers*, directed by Alexander Payne, with whom he had previously collaborated on *Nebraska* (2013). His other film credits include *The Good Girl* (2002), *My Old Lady* (2014), *Love Hard* (2021) and *12 Mighty Orphans* (2021).

Orton is a founding member of the chamber music group Tin Hat. He trained at the Peabody Conservatory and the Hartt School of Music, and received a Sundance Institute Composer Fellowship. A multi-instrumentalist and collector of antique instruments, he lives in Portland, Oregon.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Holdovers* (2023), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)
- *Nebraska* (2013), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

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

- *All We Do Is Watch Movies* (2026), Music
- *Miss You, Love You* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Broke* (2025), Additional Music
- *A Simple Machine* (2025), Music
- *On Swift Horses* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Fields of Devotion* (2025), Music
- *Amache: An American Injustice* (2024), Musical
- *The Holdovers* (2023), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-holdovers.md)
- *Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *Somewhere in Queens* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Ninety-Five Senses* (2022), Music
- *Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Love Hard* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *12 Mighty Orphans* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Jump the Fence* (2020), Music
- *The Last Shift* (2020), Music
- *The 11th Green* (2020), Original Music Composer, Score Engineer
- *Elsewhere* (2020), Music
- *Loop* (2020), Music
- *Use Me* (2019), Music
- *Sunset over Mulholland Drive* (2019), Music
- *A Place in Hell* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *So Much Yellow* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Unleashed* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Lears* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Deidra & Laney Rob a Train* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Heartland* (2016), Music
- *Pawn Sacrifice* (2015), Orchestrator
- *People, Places, Things* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *My Old Lady* (2014), Music, Original Music Composer
- *La sedia della felicità* (2014), Music
- *Drunktown's Finest* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Nebraska* (2013), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/nebraska.md)
- *A Tangled Tale* (2013), Music
- *Felix Austria!* (2013), Music
- *360* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The Revisionaries* (2012), Music
- *Flat Daddy* (2011), Music
- *The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond* (2008), Music
- *Comrades in Dreams* (2006), Music
- *Sweet Land* (2005), Music
- *The Good Girl* (2002), Original Music Composer

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