---
name: "Wendy Carlos"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wendy-carlos"
fi1m_id: "wendy-carlos"
imdb_id: "nm0137793"
tmdb_id: 2284
wikidata_id: "Q44641"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "14 November 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:20:10.123920+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."
---

# Wendy Carlos

## Identity

Wendy Carlos

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wendy-carlos
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wendy-carlos
- **IMDb ID:** nm0137793
- **TMDB ID:** 2284
- **Wikidata ID:** Q44641
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44641, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2284

Composer. Born 14 November 1939 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 November 1939, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
- **Active:** 1971–1980
- **Frequently works with:** [Stanley Kubrick](https://film.one/person/stanley-kubrick.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 1980s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44641, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2284

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*A Clockwork Orange*](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. She studied physics and music at Brown University and composition at Columbia University, where she worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Carlos is known for her pioneering use of the Moog synthesizer. Her 1968 album *Switched-On Bach* brought electronic arrangements of classical music to a wide audience. She composed the scores for Stanley Kubrick’s *A Clockwork Orange* (1971) and *The Shining* (1980), as well as *Tron* (1982).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, classicfm.com, musicradar.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *A Clockwork Orange* (1971), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Wendy Carlos, Composer* (2007), Actor
- *Woundings* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *listen...* (1982), Music Arranger, Musician
- *Tron* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *The Cosmic Machine* (1981), Music
- *The Shining* (1980), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *A Clockwork Orange* (1971), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md)
- *Gallery* (1971), Music
- *Image* (1963), Music

## Gallery

- ![Wendy Carlos](https://film.one/media/person/59418/gallery-1ffb1064ef89.jpg) Wendy Carlos — V.L. Smith / Bay Area Reporter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Wendy_Carlos_%28Bay_Area_Reporter%2C_1985%29.jpg/1280px-Wendy_Carlos_%28Bay_Area_Reporter%2C_1985%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wendy Carlos demonstrating stereo sound for a high school science project. (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/59418/gallery-6bba244ca313.jpg) Wendy Carlos demonstrating stereo sound for a high school science project. (1958) — The 1958 senior class of St. Rafael Academy., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Wendy_Carlos_HS_Project.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award 2005: SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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