---
name: "Michael J. McEvoy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-j-mcevoy"
fi1m_id: "michael-j-mcevoy"
imdb_id: "nm0568580"
tmdb_id: 1300471
wikidata_id: "Q6831540"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "29 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T20:52:39.379232+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."
---

# Michael J. McEvoy

## Identity

Michael J. McEvoy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-j-mcevoy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-j-mcevoy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0568580
- **TMDB ID:** 1300471
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6831540
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J_McEvoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6831540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1300471

Composer. Born 29 August 1961 in Nashville.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 29 August 1961, Nashville
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J_McEvoy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6831540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1300471

## Biography

Michael J. McEvoy (born 29 August 1961) is an American composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he worked as a session musician and songwriter in the 1980s and 1990s with artists including Ian Dury, Soul II Soul and Steve Winwood before studying composition for screen at the Royal College of Music in London.

He gained a master's degree there in 2005 and was awarded the Joseph Horovitz Prize for Screen Composition. McEvoy composed original music for Richard Linklater's *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), in which he also played a small acting role as Orson Welles' musical director Epstein. Other credits include the feature films *Finding Your Feet* (2017) and *Forget Me Not* (2010), as well as the documentaries *The Jazz Ambassadors* (2018) and *Alien Deep*.

He has collaborated with Paul Oakenfold on several scores, including *Vexille* (2007), and received Ivor Novello Award nominations and regional Emmy nominations.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, air-edel.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), Fi1m 72, as Epstein — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-orson-welles.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Tank Boy* (2025), Music
- *The Birdwatchers* (2025), Music
- *Point of Change* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Churchill and the Movie Mogul* (2019), Music
- *The Jazz Ambassadors* (2018), Music
- *Forget Me Not* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), as Epstein · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-orson-welles.md)
- *The Last Great Traffic Jam* (2005), Actor
- *Invasion* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale* (1989), Original Music Composer

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