About Elia Cmíral
Born 1950. Elia Cmíral is a Czech and American composer, film score composer and musician.
Elia David Cmíral (; born October 1, 1950) is a Czech composer for film, television, ballet, and video games. He has worked on numerous projects across multiple genres, though he is arguably best known for his work in the thriller and horror cinema, and has collaborated with filmmakers like Wes Craven, John Frankenheimer, John Travolta, and Ernest Dickerson.
Early life and career Cmíral was born in Czechoslovakia, to an actress and a stage director, and was the grandson of one of Antonín Dvořák's pupils. Cmiral attended the Prague Conservatory, where he studied composition and double bass. His first scoring opportunity came with his father's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. He also composed music for the award-winning adventure game The Last Express and the third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line. As well as working in Hollywood, he has also composed numerous scores for films made in Sweden and the Czech Republic.
Personal life Cmíral currently resides in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.
Filmography
Feature films 2019 - Safe Inside 2016 - Doubles 2015 - Any Day 2014 - Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? 2014 - Cam2Cam 2012 - Piranha 3DD 2012 - Rites of Passage 2011 - Atlas Shrugged: Part I 2010 - Lost Boys: The Thirst (video) 2010 - Habermann 2010 - The Killing Jar 2009 - Forget Me Not 2008 - Pulse 3 (video) 2008 - Splinter 2008 - Pulse 2: Afterlife (video) 2007 - Missionary Man 2007 - Tooth and Nail 2007 - The Deaths of Ian Stone 2006 - Pulse 2006 - Journey to the End of the Night 2005 - The Cutter (video) 2005 - The Mechanik 2005 - Iowa 2003 - Wrong Turn 2002 - They 2001 - Bones 2000 - Battlefield Earth 1999 - Stigmata 1999 - The Wishing Tree 1998 - Ronin 1996 - Somebody Is Waiting 1995 - The Way Through Hell 1993 - (Sökarna) 1988 - Apartment Zero 1988 - En hundsaga 1986 - A Matter of Life and Death
Other 2017 - Lacrimosa (short) 2010 - Call Me Bill (short) 2003 - Son of Satan 2003 - Eliza Dushku: Babe in the Woods (video documentary short) 2003 - Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn''' (video documentary short) 2003 - Stan Winston: Monster Mogul (video documentary short) 2002 - Diggin' Up 'Bones' (video short) 1999 - The Decadent Visitor (short) 1998 - Prophecies (documentary) 1998 - Visions of America (documentary) 1997 - Babies for Babies (documentary) 1997 - Sunsets by Candlelight (documentary) 1988 - Alfred Jarry - Superfreak (short)
Television
2007 - While the Children Sleep (TV movie) 2006 - Blackbeard (TV movie) 2005 - The Reading Room (TV movie) 2004 - Species III (TV movie) 2002 - The Rats (TV movie) 1996 - Nash Bridges (TV series; Season 1, and first theme) 1993 - Macklean (TV mini-series) 1991 - Rosenholm (TV series) 1991 - Barnens Detektivbyrå (TV movie) 1991 - Kopplingen (TV movie) 1989 - Flickan vid stenbänken (TV series)
Video games 2012 - Spec Ops: The Line 1997 - The Last Express''
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Who is Elia Cmíral?
Czech composer (born 1950)
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Elia Cmíral was born on 1 October 1950 in Zlín.
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Elia Cmíral is a composer, film score composer and musician.
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Elia Cmíral is Czech and American.
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