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name: "Steve Dorff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steve-dorff"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "21 April 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:06.424723+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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# Steve Dorff

Composer. Born 21 April 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 21 April 1949, New York City, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Stephen Dorff, Steven Dorff

## Biography

Steve Dorff is an American songwriter and composer. Born in New York City on 21 April 1949, he has written numerous pop and country hits recorded by artists including Kenny Rogers, George Strait, Anne Murray and Eddie Rabbitt, as well as film and television scores.

Dorff composed themes for the series *Spenser: For Hire*, *Murphy Brown*, *Growing Pains*, *Just the Ten of Us* and *The Singing Bee*, and contributed music to *Murder, She Wrote* and *Reba*. His film work includes scores and songs for *Every Which Way but Loose* (1978), *Bronco Billy* (1980), *Honkytonk Man* (1982), *Pink Cadillac* (1989) and *Blast from the Past* (1999). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 and has received multiple Grammy and Emmy nominations. He is the father of actor Stephen Dorff.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Murphy Brown* (1988), Fi1m 77, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/murphy-brown.md)

## Also known for

- *Blast from the Past* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Every Which Way but Loose* (1978), Music
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Music
- *Bronco Billy* (1980), Conductor
- *Pink Cadillac* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), Music
- *Dudley Do-Right* (1999), Music
- *Honkytonk Man* (1982), Original Music Composer

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