--- name: "Pat Metheny" canonical: "https://film.one/person/pat-metheny" fi1m_id: "pat-metheny" imdb_id: "nm0582533" tmdb_id: 1098068 wikidata_id: "Q213887" roles: ["Composer"] born: "12 August 1954" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T19:24:34.132715+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." --- # Pat Metheny ## Identity Pat Metheny - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pat-metheny - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** pat-metheny - **IMDb ID:** nm0582533 - **TMDB ID:** 1098068 - **Wikidata ID:** Q213887 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Metheny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213887, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582533/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1098068 Composer. Born 12 August 1954 in Summit, Missouri, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 12 August 1954, Summit, Missouri, USA - **Also known as:** Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Metheny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213887, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582533/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1098068 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*The Falcon and the Snowman*](https://film.one/film/the-falcon-and-the-snowman.md) (54) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Pat Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Born on 12 August 1954 in Lee's Summit, Missouri, he formed the Pat Metheny Group in 1977 with pianist Lyle Mays, with whom he collaborated for several decades. Metheny composed the original score for the film *The Falcon and the Snowman* (1985), performed by the Pat Metheny Group. The soundtrack album includes the song "This Is Not America", a collaboration with David Bowie. He has also composed for films including *A Map of the World* (1999) and *Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed* (2013). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, patmetheny.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Falcon and the Snowman* (1985), Fi1m 54, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-falcon-and-the-snowman.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Eberhard Weber: The Jubilee Concert* (2016), Actor - *Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions* (2015), as electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synth, electronics, orchestrionics, synths - *Becoming California* (2014), Music - *Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed* (2013), Original Music Composer - *Pat Metheny - The Orchestrion Project* (2012), Actor - *Pat Metheny -The Making Of The Orchestrion Project* (2012), Actor - *Pat Metheny: Secret Story* (2008), as Guitar - *Imprisoned in Peru* (2007), Music - *Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up - Live* (2006), Producer - *Pat Metheny Trio - Estival Jazz Lugano* (2004), Actor - *Pat Metheny Group - Speaking Of Now Live* (2003), Producer - *Imaginative Esoteric Sounds* (2003), Actor - *Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden - Live Jazzwoche Burghausen* (2003), Actor - *Dominic Miller Project: Live at Jazzbaltica 2003* (2003), as Guitar - *Pat Metheny Group: We Live Here* (2001), Producer - *A Map of the World* (1999), Original Music Composer - *Pat Metheny Trio: Live At Umbria Jazz Festival* (1999), as Guitar - *Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live* (1998), Producer - *Joshua Redman 'Wish' Quartet: Live by the sea* (1997), as Guitar - *Passage to Paradise* (1996), Original Music Composer - *Pat Metheny Group - More Travels* (1993), Associate Producer - *Dejohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny in Concert* (1990), Actor - *Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland: Parallel Realities Live... (Live at Mellon Jazz Festival)* (1990), as Guitar - *Big Time* (1989), Original Music Composer - *Lemon Sky* (1988), Original Music Composer - *The Tender Age* (1986), Music - *Twice in a Lifetime* (1985), Original Music Composer - *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, Music - *The Falcon and the Snowman* (1985), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-falcon-and-the-snowman.md) - *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Original Music Composer - *The Search for Solutions* (1980), series, Music ## Gallery - ![Pat Metheny at KJAZ radio, Alameda CA December 1980. Photo by Brian McMillen / brianmcmillen@hotmail.com](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-e1f9b242f550.jpg) Pat Metheny at KJAZ radio, Alameda CA December 1980. Photo by Brian McMillen / brianmcmillen@hotmail.com — Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Pat_Metheny_KJAZ.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Pat Metheny](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-6fa015a123b9.jpg) Pat Metheny — badosa, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Pat_Metheny_Barcelona_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Pat Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Concert in Poland, in Katowice, 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-f81802e5b375.jpg) Pat Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Concert in Poland, in Katowice, 2019. — Dorota Koperska Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Pat_Metheny_2019_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Concierto de Pat Metheny en el Festival Internacional de Jazz de San Javier (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-ed36c24e3280.jpg) Concierto de Pat Metheny en el Festival Internacional de Jazz de San Javier (2018) — Esaenzdetejada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Concierto_Pat_Metheny_San_Javier_Jazz_2018_01.jpg/1280px-Concierto_Pat_Metheny_San_Javier_Jazz_2018_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Pat Metheny](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-c9e699ee3200.jpg) Pat Metheny — Image via TMDB - ![Pat Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Concert in Poland, in Katowice, 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-8aa1e7d91dd1.jpg) Pat Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Concert in Poland, in Katowice, 2019. — Dorota Koperska Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Pat_Metheny_2019_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Concert of Pat Metheny with the group Unity - Gwilym Simcock (piano) Linda May Han Oh (contrabajo) Antonio Sanchez (batería) - at San Javier International Jazz (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/5547751/gallery-960be3e60cea.jpg) Concert of Pat Metheny with the group Unity - Gwilym Simcock (piano) Linda May Han Oh (contrabajo) Antonio Sanchez (batería) - at San Javier International Jazz (2018) — Tsaorin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Pat_Metheny_Unity_San_Javier_Jazz_2018_04.jpg/1280px-Pat_Metheny_Unity_San_Javier_Jazz_2018_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - NEA Jazz Masters 2018: NEA Jazz Masters (won) - Kansas Music Hall of Fame 2008: Kansas Music Hall of Fame (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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