---
name: "Steffen Thum"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steffen-thum"
fi1m_id: "steffen-thum"
imdb_id: "nm3976053"
tmdb_id: 1736377
wikidata_id: "Q28538426"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "8 June 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:13.705168+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."
---

# Steffen Thum

## Identity

Steffen Thum

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/steffen-thum
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** steffen-thum
- **IMDb ID:** nm3976053
- **TMDB ID:** 1736377
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28538426
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffen_Thum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28538426, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3976053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1736377

Composer. Born 8 June 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 8 June 1988
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffen_Thum, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28538426, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3976053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1736377

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Crawl*](https://film.one/film/crawl.md) (76)

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## Biography

Steffen Thum is a German composer for film, television, video games and advertising. Born on 8 June 1988, he began working in film scoring after studying music and joined Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in Los Angeles in 2014, where he collaborated for six years with Zimmer and composer Lorne Balfe on additional music.

Thum is credited as composer on *Crawl* (2019, with Max Aruj), *iBoy* (2017), *Slingshot* (2024), *Stockholm Bloodbath* (2023), *Betrayal* (2023) and *The Old Guard 2* (2025). He provided additional music or arrangements for *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), *Mission: Impossible – Fallout* (2018), *Twisters* (2024) and *Alien: Romulus* (2024), among many other titles. He is also credited on *Blades of the Guardians* (2026).

In 2022 Thum was one of ten composers selected for the Cannes Film Festival “Spot the Composer” programme.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crawl* (2019), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/crawl.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Hunted* (2026), Music
- *Blades of the Guardians* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *The Old Guard 2* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Say You're Sorry* (2025), Music
- *Kill* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Slingshot* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Stockholm Bloodbath* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *When We Danced* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Murder Mystery 2* (2023), Additional Music
- *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022), Music Arranger — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun-maverick.md)
- *Heimat* (2021), Music
- *Tribal: Get Out Alive* (2020), Music
- *Looking Up* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Crawl* (2019), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/crawl.md)
- *iBoy* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Red Bloom*, Original Music Composer

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