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James Dooley (composer)

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James Dooley
Background information
Birth nameJames Michael Dooley
Also known asJim Dooley
Born (1976-08-22) August 22, 1976 (age 48)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationComposer
Websitejimdooley.com

James Michael "Jim" Dooley (born August 22, 1976) is an American film score composer.

Biography

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Dooley was born in New York City and studied music at New York University, majoring in music composition. After finishing the university he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied music with prolific film score composers Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. In 1999, Dooley started working for Hans Zimmer as his chief technical assistant.[1] He works in Santa Monica in Zimmer's film music studio Remote Control Productions (formerly Media Ventures). He composed, arranged, and orchestrated music for films like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Da Vinci Code. He also composed music for inFAMOUS 2, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and the Epic Mickey series and has collaborated with Celldweller and Tarja Turunen. He released his debut album, Veiled Nation, in 2013.

Work

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Film

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Year Title Director(s) Notes
1999 The Good Man's Sin Peter Sullivan Short film
2000 Bit Players Andy Berman Short film, [1]
Gladiator Ridley Scott Assistant to Hans Zimmer
Mission: Impossible II John Woo
An Everlasting Piece Barry Levinson
2001 Pearl Harbor Michael Bay
Riding in Cars with Boys Penny Marshall
Hannibal Ridley Scott Additional music, with Hans Zimmer
Black Hawk Down
The Clayfather Ryan Nellis & Jose Solis [2]
2002 Untitled: 003-Embryo Mike Goedecke Short film, [3]
Papal Cab Kevin Susman [4]
The Ring Gore Verbinski Additional music, with Hans Zimmer
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook Additional arrangements
The Time Machine Simon Wells
2003 Agua Dulce Edgar Pablos Short
Come Lovely Jake Davis
Things Fall Apart Yaniv Raz
Life After War Brian Knappenberger Documentary
Something's Gotta Give Nancy Meyers Additional music
Matchstick Men Ridley Scott
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Gore Verbinski
Tears of the Sun Antoine Fuqua
2004 Thunderbirds Jonathan Frakes
King Arthur Antoine Fuqua
Frenching Kellie Martin Short film
2005 The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper Gary Trousdale
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Park and Steve Box Additional music
Madagascar Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
The Amityville Horror Andrew Douglas
2006 The Da Vinci Code Ron Howard
First Flight Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson Short film
Impy's Island Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe
When a Stranger Calls Simon West
2007 Daddy Day Camp Fred Savage
The Simpsons Movie David Silverman Additional music
Electroland Gabriel London Documentary short
The Mars Underground Scott Gill Documentary, [5]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Gore Verbinski Additional arrangements
Young@Heart Stephen Walker Documentary, wrote and performed "Crimson Joy"
2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath Additional music
Impy's Island 2 Reinhard Klooss & Holger Tappe [6]
Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation James Ryan Video
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Peggy Holmes
2009 Obsessed Steve Shill
2011 Son of Mourning Yaniv Raz
The Forger Lawrence Roeck
2012 Slumber Party Slaughter Rebekah Chaney
The Longest Daycare David Silverman Short, additional music
Buzkashi Boys Sam French Short
2013 Barbie in the Pink Shoes Owen Hurley Video
2014 10 Cent Pistol Michael C. Martin
Barbie: The Pearl Princess Ezekiel Norton Video
The Simpsons Take the Bowl David Silverman and Mike Anderson
2015 Toxin Jason Dudek
2016 Fifty Shades of Black Michael Tiddes
Satanic Jeffrey G. Hunt
2017 Heartthrob Chris Sivertson
2019 Secret Obsession Peter Sullivan
2020 Playdate with Destiny David Silverman Short
TBA Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets Yaniv Raz Post-production

TV

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Year Title Notes
2001 Area 52 TV movie
2002 ESPN – "Citation"
ESPN – "Richard Flowers"
Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr TV movie documentary
2003 Dean Kamen
The Louisiana Purchase TV movie
Frontline/World TV series documentary, 2 episodes
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s TV movie documentary
Space Ghost Coast to Coast 1 episode
2003–2004 Skin Mini-series
2004 Life on Liberty Street TV movie
Hollywood Mom's Mystery
2005 Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Detective
Ordinary Miracles
The Contender
2006 What About Brian 2 episodes
2007–2009 Pushing Daisies
2009 Crisis: New York Under Water TV movie
2010 Neighbors from Hell
2011 Wilfred
Franklin & Bash 2 episodes
Poe TV movie
2012 Best Friends Forever
Mockingbird Lane TV special
Emily Owens M.D. 3 episodes
2013–2014 Doctor Who Online Adventures TV series short, 3 episodes
2013 Jinxed TV movie
Murder in Manhattan
2014 Deliverance Creek
Dead Boss
2015 Barbie in Princess Power
Splitting Adam
Bad Blood
2017 A Midsummer's Nightmare
2018 A Tale of Two Corey's
2014–2018 The Last Ship
2018–2019 A Series of Unfortunate Events
2019 Kim Possible TV movie

Video games

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Year Title Notes
2005 Dead to Rights II
SOCOM 3 U.S. Navy SEALs
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo
2006 SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault
SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2
2007 The Simpsons Game With Hans Zimmer, Chris Lennertz and Tim Wynn
Def Jam: Icon Technical staff
Bee Movie Game Cinematic score
2009 Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
Infamous
Nerf N-Strike
Monsters vs. Aliens
2010 Epic Mickey
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
2011 Infamous 2 With Bryan Mantia, Melissa Reese, Galactic and Jonathan Mayer
2012 Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two With Mike Himelstein
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion With Sean Beeson
2013 BioShock Infinite Special thanks
Knack
2014 Disney Infinity – Marvel Super Heroes
2015 Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition – Starter Pack

Other

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Title Notes
The Simpsons Ride Universal Studios Theme Park Attraction
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: Legends National tour

Awards

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Year Award Recipient
2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Pushing Daisies: Pigeon[2]
2008 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best TV Composer Pushing Daisies Season 1
2009 ASCAP Award for Top-Grossing Film Obsessed[3]
2009 G.A.N.G. Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album inFamous[4]

References

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  1. ^ László, Kulics. "When a composer calls – Interview with James Dooley". Filmzene.net (in Hungarian). Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  2. ^ IMDB. "James Dooley Awards". Internet Movie Database.
  3. ^ Christopher Morris (June 24, 2010). "ASCAP honors for film, TV". Variety. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  4. ^ Rick Damigella. "inFAMOUS Soundtrack Review plus G.A.N.G. Awards Wrap Up". G4TV. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
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