Geoff Levin

Geoff Levin

Nacimiento : 1945-09-14, San Francisco, California, USA

Historia

Geoff Levin (born September 14, 1945) is an American rock musician, film/television composer and songwriter. Performing as part of the Black Mountain Boys with Jerry Garcia in the early years of his career, in 1968 his own group, People!, scored a hit record "I Love You" on Capital Records.[1][2] Together with Geoffrey Lewis in 1970, he created Celestial Navigations, a storytelling group, that produced 8 albums, several made the Billboard (New Age) charts. He co-composed and co-produced "The Janitor", an Academy Award-nominated animated short based on a story by Geoffrey Lewis from the album Celestial Navigations.[3][4][5] Levin has scored over 40 full-length films and has created music used in many TV shows including The Sopranos, Chicago Fire, The Good Wife, Friends, Bloodline, SNL, Game of Thrones, Friday Night Lights, CSI, and Weeds. He co-wrote the theme song for Jakers, an Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning PBS animated series. In addition, he composed music for James Cameron's deep sea documentary, Last Mysteries of the Titanic.[6] In 2007, as part of People!, Levin was inducted into San Jose's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Perfil

Geoff Levin

Películas

Acts of Desperation
Music
A desperate cop on the edge is obsessed over the fact that his beautiful but desperate wife is having an affair. At the same time, he tracks a desperately shrewd bank robber who is falling in love with a desperately obsessed woman whose life he just saved from suicide. As if that's not enough, he is also being blackmailed by two desperately unhinged street criminals who will stop at nothing to get their money. Time is running out for all of them as their worlds collide in in this intensely unique and desperately compelling and unpredictable thriller!
Set Apart
Original Music Composer
Four troubled, inner city kids get a western-style shot at redemption when a cowboy pastor invites them to his country ranch and offers them a chance to put their lives in perspective. Korina, Rey, Anthony, and Marcus all grew up on the streets. Every decision they make in that volatile environment could affect the rest of their lives. Pastor John Gunn (John Schneider) runs the Power Company Kids' ministry, an organization dedicated to giving at-risk kids the tools they need to build brighter futures. He's convinced that the four teens would benefit from going back to the basics and experiencing the cowboy lifestyle, and with a little help from ranch owners Randy and Heidi Gunn, Pastor Gunn shows the kids that there's much more to life than hustling on the streets. Though reluctant to participate at first, the kids quickly adjust to their new surroundings as their eyes are opened to a whole new world of opportunity.
Kemper
Music
A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
The Grift
Music
A 1940's period drama about about a woman who has been wronged by her husband, but must help him after he has fallen in with a family of grifters.
Succubus: Hell-Bent
Music
Sometimes what happens at Spring Break doesn't stay at Spring Break... it follows you home.
Born. El embrión del mal
Music
Mary Elizabeth, una joven de 21 años, se acuesta a solas una noche siendo virgen y a la mañana siguiente se despierta estando embarazada. Poseída por el demoníaco feto que crece dentro de su interior, la joven se ve obligada a asesinar para satisfacer la sed de mal de su retoño. Esto la conduce a una transformación oscura, controlada por las maliciosas ansias del demonio. Una vez que el bebé nazca, el infierno reinará sobre la tierra...
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
Original Music Composer
Una comedia romántica urbana sobre un joven policía de San Diego que viaja a Los Ángeles con su novio para conocer a su familia disfuncional y anunciar su compromiso.
Maisie Undercover: Shadow Boxer
Original Music Composer
The beautiful ex-cop/bar owner/private eye goes undercover as a boxer at an illegal underground fight club in order to find the killer of a female boxer.
Maisie Undercover: Old Flames
Music
Maisie Calloway, a beautiful ex-cop, bar owner and now private investigator, takes the case when one of her bar patrons is searching for his missing girlfriend, a call girl trying to leave her pimp.
Naked Surrender
Music
Maisie Calloway, a sexy former policewoman, is now the owner of the hip club, Dames. When Ally, a sexy coed she employs confesses to being blackmailed, Maisie is plunged back into the world of investigation. As she unravels the dark erotic secrets around her, she puts her won life in danger.
Deuce Bigalow: Gigoló europeo
Additional Music
Deuce (Rob Schneider), un limpiador de peceras ingenuo y de buen corazón, creía que su carrera de gigoló había terminado. Pero cuando se veía lejos de todo aquello, es tentado a regresar a su increíble profesión de 'placer pagado'. Hicks (Eddie Griffin), su antiguo proxeneta, se ve implicado en los asesinatos de los gigolós más prestigiosos de Europa. Deuce se ve obligado a regresar como espía de incógnito para limpiar el nombre de su gran amigo. Para conseguir sus propósitos, éste debe competir con la poderosa Unidad Europea de Prostitutos e incluso exponerse a otra serie de estrafalarias clientes. Entre todos estos líos, conoce a la hermosa Eva (Hanna Verboom), que sufre de un desorden crónico obsesivo-compulsivo y a su vez es extremadamente talentosa.
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
Music
"From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my redemption. This is my confession." (Eddie Castillo 2005)
Undercover Kids
Music
Nicole and Nelson are twins with psychic powers. On the first day of school everyone is talking about the recent vandalism at school. Nicole and Nelson decide to go undercover to find the culprit. The twins get child genius George & his high tech gadgets to help them solve the mystery. With the clock ticking, the kids race to break the case open before the big school board meeting where they must reveal the true person responsible for the vandalism. Will the Undercover Kids solve the crime before time runs out?
Dark Wolf
Original Music Composer
A hip, very erotic twist on the werewolf thriller, this atmospheric horror film adds a a wickedly sexy appetite to the bloodthirsty cravings of its monster. A vicious werewolf stalks the streets of Los Angeles. Between killings, its desperate goal is to mate with unsuspecting Josie, who is unaware of her special power attracting the beast. Forced to take over an investigation involving werewolves after his partner is killed, an LAPD Detective is led to the trail of this ravenously deadly hybrid werewolf.
Se montó la gorda
Music Programmer
Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) es un abogado divorciado, mojigato y deprimido que sigue enamorado de su ex-mujer Kate (Jean Smart) y que no acaba de entender por qué ella le abandonó. Sin embargo, Peter intenta seguir adelante y liga con una inteligente y explosiva abogada a la que ha conocido en un chat de Internet. Pero cuando deciden verse las caras en casa de Peter, descubre que la chica es bastante vulgar, no pertenece a la elitista Liga Ivy y ni siquiera es abogada. En realidad se trata de Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), una joven de color que se ha escapado de la cárcel y quiere que Peter le ayude a demostrar su inocencia.
Hungry Hearts
Original Music Composer
The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Código de honor
Music
Mientras trabaja como agente secreto de la CIA, el condecorado Comandante de la Marina John Kennedy (Dan Andersen) y su compañero Cody (Olivier Gruner) descubre una operación del gobierno para vender secretos oficiales.
The Smokers
Original Music Composer
Tired of being used and abused by the opposite sex, three girlfriends decide to turn the tables on the guys who cross them by teaching them a sex-ed lesson they'll never forget! But their little scheme backfires when their secret gets out, and when one of the school's jocks goes too far, he sets into motion a chain of events that could change all their lives forever.
Hot Boyz
Music
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
As Time Runs Out
Music
A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.
Jimmy Zip
Music
An abused runaway with pyromaniac tendencies teams up with a metal sculptor. Together they blow away the art world and a local crime boss.
The Last Great Ride
Music
A kid, his new friend who's a girl, his grandmother and their old neighbor who used to work as a driver for a gangster, search for the treasure supposedly hidden nearby by the gangster long time ago, to help the neighbor keep his house.
Instinto criminal
Original Music Composer
Cuando el doctor Ben Carroway se ve envuelto en un caso de asesinato en el que los asesinos se suicidan una vez detenidos, descubre que éstos no están fichados. Sin embargo todos ellos fueron niños desaparecidos y decide iniciar una investigación con la ayuda de la hermana de uno de los asesinos y con un asesino a sueldo de la mafia. En Méjico descubrirán una mansión en la que los chicos son entrenados para convertirse en asesinos.
Beauty
Music
Alix Miller arrives at the isolated Crompton mansion in New Hampshire to paint the portrait of the mysterious Leland Crompton. When they meet, she discovers that he is horribly disfigured from a disease called acromegaly. Nevertheless, friendship, romance, and a deeper understanding develop between the two.
Gang Boys
Music
Linda Blair's gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back.
The Price She Paid
Music
Twelve years ago, Lacey was raped and had a son as a result. Now her rapist is out on parole, and since he's the father of the child and has shown signs of rehabilitation, he's been granted visitation rights by a judge. Slowly but predictably, Lacey realizes things just aren't right with him, but thanks to her rapists manipulation, everybody she knows, from her boss to her friends, dismisses her feelings and thinks she's crazy. Meanwhile, her attacker is primed to finish what he started 12 years ago.
Nerds of a Feather
Music
Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-American Nerd and puts him where he belongs - on a top secret spy mission.
Mas allá de las estrellas
Music
Eric Michaels es un muchacho de 17 años cuya mayor ilusión es convertirse en astronauta. Todo su tiempo lo emplea construyendo modelos a escala de naves espaciales. Durante una temporada que pasa con su padre en su casa de Oregón, éste, que es ingeniero aeroespacial, le introduce en el mundo del espacio y le anima en su entusiasmo por las estrellas y los planetas. Allí conoce a Paul Andrews, el último hombre que pisó la luna. Cuando Eric debe volver a Oklahoma junto a su madre, Paul le enseña una preciosa cadena de oro con una piedra... un recuerdo de su paseo por la Luna, y le cuenta un secreto... una visión, algo que cambiará para siempre el futuro de los viajes espaciales y de toda la humanidad.
Grizzly Diaries
Music
Made famous by Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, late bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell spent several months each year living among the grizzlies in Alaska's Katmai National Park. This riveting documentary follows Treadwell on one of his last journeys into the wilderness. Recording the activities of the bears he encounters on his video camera, he comes face-to-face with a giant male and witnesses a brutal turf war between rival clans.
Natural Selection
Music
In 2097 in Los Angeles two men take in on themselves to counter the efforts of others to sell some eggs of a rare species of a highly predatory, highly loyal bird.