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name: "Van Dyke Parks"
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fi1m_id: "van-dyke-parks"
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tmdb_id: 58099
wikidata_id: "Q339031"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "3 January 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:10:32.858476+00:00"
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# Van Dyke Parks

## Identity

Van Dyke Parks

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/van-dyke-parks
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** van-dyke-parks
- **IMDb ID:** nm0663026
- **TMDB ID:** 58099
- **Wikidata ID:** Q339031
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339031, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663026/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58099

Songs. Born 3 January 1943 in Hattiesburg - Mississippi - USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 3 January 1943, Hattiesburg - Mississippi - USA
- **Active:** 1987–1990
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 77 (1), 1990s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339031, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663026/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58099

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Brave Little Toaster*](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, songwriter, arranger and musician. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he trained as a musician from childhood and studied at the American Boychoir School and the University of Pennsylvania before working as a session musician and arranger in the 1960s.

He has composed scores and songs for several films, including *Goin' South* (1978), *Popeye* (1980), *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987), for which he wrote the songs, *The Two Jakes* (1990) and *Wild Bill* (1995). His film work also includes contributions to *Broken Trail* (2006) and *The Company* (2003).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, as Jack Racine — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987), Fi1m 77, Songs, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

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

- *Sayonara America* (2021), Actor
- *Ceremony* (2010), Additional Music
- *Dark Matter* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Broken Trail* (2006), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Adventures of Ociee Nash* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Company* (2003), Music
- *Stuart Little: The Animated Series* (2003), series, Music
- *Charms for the Easy Life* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story* (2002), Music
- *Monday Night Mayhem* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Call Me Claus* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *In the Time of the Butterflies* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *The Ponder Heart* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Harlan County War* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Border Line* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *A Chance of Snow* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Noah* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Shadrach* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Barney's Great Adventure* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Oliver Twist* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Bastard Out of Carolina* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *The Summer of Ben Tyler* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Wild Bill* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *One Christmas* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Next Door* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Out on a Limb* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Eerie, Indiana* (1991), series, Original Music Composer
- *Frogs!* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *The Two Jakes* (1990), as Francis Hannah · Original Music Composer
- *Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme* (1990), as Minister of Merriment · Original Music Composer
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, as Jack Racine — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife* (1989), Music
- *Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Vibes* (1988), as Dr. Weiner
- *Rented Lips* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Casual Sex?* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987), Music, Songs — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md)
- *Ponce de Leon* (1986), Music
- *Club Paradise* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Darlin' Clementine* (1986), Music
- *Tall Tales & Legends* (1985), series, Music
- *Follow That Bird* (1985), Music
- *Little Red Riding Hood* (1983), Music Director
- *Jack and the Beanstalk* (1983), Music Consultant
- *Faerie Tale Theatre* (1982), series, as The Musician
- *The Tale of the Frog Prince* (1982), as The Musician
- *Popeye* (1980), as Hoagy the Piano Player · Conductor
- *Goin' South* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Loose Shoes* (1978), as Indian #2
- *Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?* (1970), Actor
- *The Swan* (1956), as George
- *Bonino* (1953), series, as Andrew Bonino
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Horace
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Eddie Stone, Robbie, Lawrence Alden

## Gallery

- ![Van Dyke Parks signing SMiLE programs at the Royal Festival Hall on February 21, 2004.](https://film.one/media/person/390171/gallery-85fbac3a2a1a.jpg) Van Dyke Parks signing SMiLE programs at the Royal Festival Hall on February 21, 2004. — J-Ham2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/VDParks_02212004.jpg/1280px-VDParks_02212004.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Van Dyke Parks](https://film.one/media/person/390171/gallery-057a5aba602a.png) Van Dyke Parks — Warner Bros. Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Van_Dyke_Parks_1967.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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