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name: "Mason Daring"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mason-daring"
fi1m_id: "mason-daring"
imdb_id: "nm0006025"
tmdb_id: 20836
wikidata_id: "Q556556"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "21 September 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:10:50.358180+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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# Mason Daring

## Identity

Mason Daring

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mason-daring
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mason-daring
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006025
- **TMDB ID:** 20836
- **Wikidata ID:** Q556556
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Daring, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q556556, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006025/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20836

Composer. Born 21 September 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 21 September 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Daring, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q556556, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006025/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20836

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Lone Star*](https://film.one/film/lone-star.md) (86)

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## Biography

Mason Daring is an American composer and musician. Born on 21 September 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated cum laude in music from Amherst College in 1971 and earned a J.D. from Suffolk Law School in 1976. He practised entertainment law before turning to composition full time.

Daring began scoring films after meeting director John Sayles while serving as legal counsel on *Return of the Secaucus 7* (1980). He has composed for nearly all of Sayles's subsequent features, including *Matewan* (1987), *Lone Star* (1996) and *Go for Sisters* (2013), as well as other films such as *Eight Men Out* (1988), *The Opposite of Sex* (1998) and *Music of the Heart* (1999). He has also written themes for the PBS series *Frontline* and *Nova*, and maintains his own record label, Daring Records.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Lone Star* (1996), Fi1m 86, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/lone-star.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

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

- *The Healthcare Divide* (2021), Music
- *Saudi Arabia Uncovered* (2016), Music
- *Go for Sisters* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Suicide Plan* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Dollars and Dentists* (2012), Music Arranger
- *Amigo* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Honeydripper* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *State of Mind* (2007), series, Music
- *Walker Payne* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Silver City* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *A Separate Peace* (2004), Music
- *Casa de los Babys* (2003), Music
- *America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story* (2003), Music
- *Sunshine State* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Tru Confessions* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Ruby's Bucket of Blood* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Say It Isn't So* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Where the Heart Is* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Music of the Heart* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Limbo* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *A Walk on the Moon* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude* (1998), Additional Music
- *The Opposite of Sex* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Evidence of Blood* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *From the Earth to the Moon* (1998), series, Music
- *Men with Guns* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Dead by Midnight* (1997), Music
- *Prefontaine* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Hidden in America* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century* (1996), series, Music
- *Lone Star* (1996), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lone-star.md)
- *Letter to My Killer* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Old Curiosity Shop* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Young at Heart* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Secret of Roan Inish* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Getting Out* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Outlaw* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Ed and His Dead Mother* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Stolen Babies* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *The Ernest Green Story* (1993), Music
- *Passion Fish* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Fathers & Sons* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *City of Hope* (1991), as Peter · Original Music Composer
- *Dogfight* (1991), Music
- *Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken* (1991), Music
- *Off and Running* (1991), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Murder in Mississippi* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Mountain View* (1989), Music, Music Director
- *Day One* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Eight Men Out* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Shallow Grave* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Matewan* (1987), as Picker · Original Music Composer
- *Key Exchange* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *The Brother from Another Planet* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Lianna* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Return of the Secaucus Seven* (1980), Music Producer, Original Music Composer

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