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name: "Paul Cantelon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-cantelon"
fi1m_id: "paul-cantelon"
imdb_id: "nm0134508"
tmdb_id: 4865
wikidata_id: "Q3370807"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:00:55.358120+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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# Paul Cantelon

## Identity

Paul Cantelon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-cantelon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-cantelon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0134508
- **TMDB ID:** 4865
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3370807
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cantelon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3370807, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134508/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4865

Composer. Born 1 January 1965 in Glendale, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1965, Glendale, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cantelon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3370807, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134508/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4865

## Biography

Paul Cantelon is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. He is also a violinist, pianist and accordionist, and a founding member of the alternative band Wild Colonials.

Cantelon was born in Glendale, California. He studied at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and the Conservatoire de Paris. He composed the score for *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007) and has written music for films including *Everything Is Illuminated* (2005), *The Other Boleyn Girl* (2008), *W.* (2008) and *At Eternity's Gate* (2018).

He suffered a serious bicycle accident at the age of 17 that resulted in a coma and amnesia, after which he relearned his musical skills.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007), Fi1m 87, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Agnelli* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Letters from Baghdad* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *God Knows Where I Am* (2016), Music
- *A Master Builder* (2014), Additional Music
- *Effie Gray* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Violet & Daisy* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Kiss the Water* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Firelight* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Woody Allen: A Documentary* (2011), Additional Music
- *The Music Never Stopped* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Conviction* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Remembrance* (2009), Music
- *W.* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *New York, I Love You* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Other Boleyn Girl* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Year of the Fish* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly.md)
- *Everything Is Illuminated* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *The River Wild* (1994), as Violinist

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