John Frizzell (composer)

John Frizzell (born 1966) is an American film and television composer. As a young boy, Frizzell sang soprano in the National Cathedral Choir, the Paris Opera Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Company. However, once he hit puberty, his voice changed. He continued his study of music at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music, but he began to focus more on the jazz guitar than voice. After he finished college, Frizzell worked with Michael Mainieri, a famous producer and became exposed to synthesis and helped Mainieri on many commercials, movies, and records.

Frizzell's career excelled and he worked with many more renowned composers, directors and producers including Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Sacret Young, James Newton Howard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Joel Silver, Randy Edelman and Mark Rydell. However, Frizzell is best known for his work with Mike Judge. He did the scores for Judge's films Beavis and Butthead Do America and Office Space as well as the music for Judge's TV series King of the Hill. His other film scores include I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Alien: Resurrection, Dante's Peak, Thirteen Ghosts, Ghost Ship, Gods and Generals, Stay Alive and The Reaping. He also composed the TV musical score for VR.5 and more recently the thriller drama television series The Following.

1995

 * Whose Daughter Is She?
 * It Was Him or Us

1996

 * Deadly Pursuits
 * Undertow
 * Red Ribbon Blues
 * Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
 * The Rich Man's Wife (main theme by James Newton Howard)
 * Crime of the Century
 * The Empty Mirror

1997

 * Opposite Corners
 * Dante's Peak (theme by James Newton Howard)
 * Alien: Resurrection (theme by Jerry Goldsmith)

1998

 * Mafia! (as Gianni Frizzelli)
 * I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

1999

 * Office Space
 * Teaching Mrs. Tingle
 * The White River Kid

2000

 * Beautiful
 * Lockdown
 * Possessed

2001

 * Josie and the Pussycats
 * James Dean
 * Thirteen Ghosts

2002

 * Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
 * Ghost Ship

2003

 * Gods and Generals (with Randy Edelman)
 * Cradle 2 the Grave (with Dame Grease)
 * The Whizzard of Ow

2004

 * The Goodbye Girl
 * Karroll's Christmas

2005

 * The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
 * Four Minutes
 * Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

2006

 * A Little Thing Called Murder
 * Stay Alive
 * The Woods

2007

 * Careless
 * Primeval
 * First Born
 * The Reaping
 * Black Irish
 * Beneath

2008

 * Henry Poole Is Here
 * Wisegal
 * 100 Feet
 * Tenure

2009

 * Evil Angel
 * The Lodger
 * From Mexico with Love
 * Whiteout

2010

 * Legion
 * Shelter

2011

 * The Roommate

2013

 * Texas Chainsaw 3D

2014

 * The Loft''

2016

 * When the Bough Breaks

2017

 * Leatherface