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name: "Todd Boekelheide"
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born: "27 June 1954"
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average_fi1m_score: 86
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# Todd Boekelheide

Composer. Born 27 June 1954 in Chico, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 27 June 1954, Chico, California, USA
- **Active:** 1983–1999
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (2), 1990s 82 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7812278, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091250/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/957928

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse*](https://film.one/film/hearts-of-darkness-a-filmmakers-apocalypse.md) (84)

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## Biography

Todd Boekelheide (born 27 June 1954) is an American composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is best known for his scores for documentary films. He began working in film in 1974 as a projectionist at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope in San Francisco, later editing picture and sound on *Star Wars* (1977) and *The Black Stallion* (1979). He studied music at Mills College in Oakland before scoring his first films.

Boekelheide composed the score for *Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse* (1991). His other documentary credits include *Kids of Survival: The Life and Art of Tim Rollins and K.O.S.* (1997), for which he won an Emmy, *Ballets Russes* (2005) and *3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets* (2015). He has also worked extensively as a sound re-recording mixer, winning an Academy Award for *Amadeus* (1984) and receiving a nomination for *Never Cry Wolf* (1983).

He has received further Emmy nominations for his scores for *Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters* (2006) and *Blessed Is the Match* (2008).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Fight Club* (1999), Fi1m 81, Sound Re-Recording Mixer — [page](https://film.one/film/fight-club.md)
- *Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse* (1991), Fi1m 84, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-of-darkness-a-filmmakers-apocalypse.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, Sound Re-Recording Mixer — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *The Right Stuff* (1983), Fi1m 86, Sound Re-Recording Mixer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-right-stuff.md)

## Also known for

- *The Game* (1997), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *Panic Room* (2002), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *Autumn in New York* (2000), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *The Unbearable Lightness of Being* (1988), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *River's Edge* (1986), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *Henry & June* (1990), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *Pin* (1988), Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- *The Blood of Heroes* (1989), Original Music Composer

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