---
name: "Snuff Garrett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/snuff-garrett"
fi1m_id: "snuff-garrett"
imdb_id: "nm0308207"
tmdb_id: 73949
wikidata_id: "Q7548824"
roles: ["Music supervisor"]
born: "5 July 1938"
died: "16 December 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 45
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-04T18:40:17.792881+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."
---

# Snuff Garrett

## Identity

Snuff Garrett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/snuff-garrett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** snuff-garrett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0308207
- **TMDB ID:** 73949
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7548824
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Garrett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7548824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73949

Music supervisor. Born 5 July 1938 in Dallas, Texas, USA. Died 16 December 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Music supervisor
- **Born:** 5 July 1938, Dallas, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 16 December 2015
- **Active:** 1980–1984
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 4, Comedy 4, Adventure 1, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $265m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Garrett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7548824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73949

## Biography

Snuff Garrett (born Thomas Lesslie Garrett) was an American record producer and composer. Born on 5 July 1938 in Dallas, Texas, he died on 16 December 2015 in Arizona.

He began his career as a disc jockey in Texas before joining Liberty Records in Hollywood in 1959 as a staff producer, later becoming head of A&R. He produced numerous pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s for artists including Bobby Vee, Gary Lewis & the Playboys and Cher, and later moved into country music and film soundtracks.

Garrett worked as music supervisor or composer on several films, including *Every Which Way but Loose* (1978), *Smokey and the Bandit II* (1980), *Bronco Billy* (1980), *Any Which Way You Can* (1980), *The Cannonball Run* (1981) and *Cannonball Run II* (1984).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Cannonball Run II* (1984), Fi1m 35, Music Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/cannonball-run-ii.md)
- *The Cannonball Run* (1981), Fi1m 50, Music Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cannonball-run.md)
- *Any Which Way You Can* (1980), Fi1m 50, Music Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/any-which-way-you-can.md)
- *Smokey and the Bandit II* (1980), Fi1m 44, Original Music Composer, Music, Music Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/smokey-and-the-bandit-ii.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Hard Time: Hostage Hotel* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Hard Time: The Premonition* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Hard Time* (1998), Music, Music Supervisor
- *Cannonball Run II* (1984), Music Supervisor — Fi1m 35, [page](https://film.one/film/cannonball-run-ii.md)
- *The Cannonball Run* (1981), Music Supervisor — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cannonball-run.md)
- *Any Which Way You Can* (1980), Music Supervisor — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/any-which-way-you-can.md)
- *Smokey and the Bandit II* (1980), Original Music Composer, Music Supervisor — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/smokey-and-the-bandit-ii.md)
- *Bronco Billy* (1980), Music Supervisor
- *Every Which Way but Loose* (1978), Music Supervisor
- *The Day the Clown Cried*, Music

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