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name: "Nathan Whitehead"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nathan-whitehead"
fi1m_id: "nathan-whitehead"
imdb_id: "nm1211040"
tmdb_id: 1186278
wikidata_id: "Q18692870"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T11:09:05.951997+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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# Nathan Whitehead

## Identity

Nathan Whitehead

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nathan-whitehead
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nathan-whitehead
- **IMDb ID:** nm1211040
- **TMDB ID:** 1186278
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18692870
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18692870, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1186278

Composer. Born 1 January 1950 in East Tennessee, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, East Tennessee, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18692870, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1211040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1186278

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Last Ship*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-ship.md) (67)

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## Biography

Nathan Whitehead is an American composer for film, television and video games. He began his career in Hollywood working in sound design before contributing additional music and arrangements to projects including *Pride and Glory* (2008), *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011) and entries in the *Gears of War* video game series.

Whitehead is best known for scoring the *The Purge* film series, including *The Purge* (2013), *The Purge: Anarchy* (2014) and *The Purge: Election Year* (2016). He provided the score for the TNT series *The Last Ship* (2014–2018), collaborating with Steve Jablonsky on the main themes. His other credits include *Keanu* (2016), *Beyond Skyline* (2017) and the video game *Days Gone* (2019).

Whitehead has received ASCAP Screen Music Awards for his work on *The Purge*, *The Purge: Anarchy* and *The Last Ship*. He is originally from East Tennessee and is based in Los Angeles.

*Sources: nathanwhitehead.com, filmmusicreporter.com, imdb.com, soundtracktracklist.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Last Ship* (2014), Fi1m 67, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-ship.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *The Home* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *This Is the Night* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *FBI: Most Wanted* (2020), series, Additional Music
- *SARAH* (2019), Musical
- *He's Out There* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Delirium* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Beyond Skyline* (2017), Music
- *Killing Hasselhoff* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Stephanie* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Interrogation* (2016), Music
- *He Does Not Want Peace* (2016), Music
- *The Purge: Election Year* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Citrus Springs* (2016), Music
- *Keanu* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The Veil* (2016), Music
- *South of Hell* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *12 Rounds 3: Lockdown* (2015), Music
- *By the Gun* (2014), Music
- *The Remaining* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Purge: Anarchy* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Ship* (2014), series, Music — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-ship.md)
- *The Purge* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *D4* (2010), Music
- *Pride and Glory* (2008), First Assistant Sound Editor
- *P2* (2007), First Assistant Sound Editor
- *Black Snake Moan* (2006), Assistant Sound Editor
- *Crank* (2006), Assistant Sound Editor
- *Dark Harvest III: Skarecrow* (2004), Music
- *Spartan* (2004), Assistant Sound Editor
- *The Matrix Revolutions* (2003), Assistant Sound Editor

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