John Morris

John Morris

出生 : 1926-10-18, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

死亡 : 2018-01-25

略歴

John Leonard Morris (October 18, 1926 – January 25, 2018) was an American film, television, and Broadway composer, dance arranger, conductor, and trained concert pianist. He collaborated with filmmakers Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Morris (composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Within the Shadow of the Tree: Dark Dreams
The Small One's Father
A little character named The Small One must try and set a spell right that was cast by his adopted father, a powerful wizard, who was once the protector of the land Marimdorph before he died.
Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Self
A featurette about Silent Movie's origins, inspirations and development, direct cinematic influences, cast and performances, some gag specifics and cut scenes, Brooks’ directorial style, and a few other tidbits.
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Self
Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."
The Blackwater Lightship
Original Music Composer
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
The Making of 'The Producers'
Self
An hour-long making-of featurette which features interviews and anecdotes from the likes of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Lee "Ulla" Meredith, assistant director Michael Hertzberg, composer John Morris, choreographer Alan Johnson, production designer Charles Rosen, casting director Alfa-Betty Olsen, among others.
愛さずにはいられない
Supervising Sound Editor
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
逆転人生
Original Music Composer
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Our Sons
Original Music Composer
When James admits to his mother that he is gay it strains her liberal attitude. A San Diego businesswoman, Audrey believes she is a modern, open-minded mother, but the news sends her reeling. However, the real shock comes when James asks her to travel to Arkansas and inform his lover's estranged mom, Luanne, that her son has AIDS. As Audrey and Luanne learn to put aside their prejudice toward each other, they soon discover how to share their thoughts, hopes and fears for their sons.
The Last to Go
Music
Tyne Daly plays a woman who sees the dreams of her youth change over a 22-year period as, first, her surgeon husband leaves her for another relationship, and then, her children, on reaching adulthood, go their separate ways. Adapted from the 1988 novel by Rand Richards Cooper.
ステラ
Original Music Composer
貧しくても、明るく力強く生きてきたステラ。店を訪れた青年と恋に落ちるが、相手は輝ける将来が約束された名家の青年。そしていずれはニューヨークに帰ってしまうという期限付きの恋だった。しかし思いもかけない妊娠によってステラの運命は大きく変わってしまう。“住む世界が違う”とプロポーズも断り、金銭的な援助も一切受け付けず、ステラは女手一つで子供を育てる道を選ぶ。─月日は流れ、ステラと娘ジェニーは、一緒にはしゃぎ、一緒に泣く、まるで最高の女友達のような仲の良い親子になっていた。だがジェニーに恋人ができた時、ステラは改めて彼女の幸せを考える。“このまま自分と同じ道を歩ませてはならない…”と。そして自分自身の夢を捨て娘を幸せにしようとする、ある悲しい決断をする。
Second Sight
Original Music Composer
Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.
Johnny Handsome
Sound Editor
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
D.O.A.
Dialogue Editor
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
黄昏に燃えて
Music
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.
ダーティ・ダンシング
Original Music Composer
とある夏、家族と共に避暑地にやってきた17才の少女ベイビーはそこで、ダンス・インストラクターのジョニーと出会い、愛し合うようになる。上流階級のお嬢様はやがて大人の女へと成長する。
スペースボール
Original Music Composer
コメディ界の帝王メル・ブルックスによるパロディ満載コメディ。『スター・ウォーズ』を筆頭に、SF界の傑作を盛りだくさんにパロディ化。“SW”本家同様ILMがSFXを担当、ニヤリとせずにはいられないシーンも結構スゴい。
Haunted Honeymoon
Original Music Composer
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
殺人ゲームへの招待
Original Music Composer
1954年、ニュー・イングランドのとある地域にある大邸宅で、ディナー・パーティが開かれる。ゲストの顔ぶれは、上院議員ピーコック夫人、ワシントンのホステスとしてすご腕を発揮している。ワズワース、殺人を目のあたりにしても少しも騒がない無表情な男だ。ある重要人物の未亡人で腹黒い女ホワイト夫人、精神料医プラム教授、上品な官僚グリーン氏。いばりちらしてばかりいるマスタード大佐、セクシーでずる賢く自分の欲しいものを手に入れる術を心得ているスカーレット。他にフランス人メイド、イヴェット、ボディ氏らの面々だ。その夜、パーティーは緊張の中で開かれやがて彼らの秘密が暴かれる。
Johnny Dangerously
Original Music Composer
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
ウーマン・イン・レッド
Original Music Composer
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
メル・ブルックスの大脱走
Original Music Composer
ポーランド人の劇団スターを巡る三角関係がなぜかナチのスパイ追跡劇となり、それが総勢50人もの脱出劇に発展するという奇想天外なコメディ。才人メル・ブルックスやアン・バンクロフトら演技派名優で送る抱腹絶倒の内容。
Yellowbeard
Original Music Composer
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Table for Five
Original Music Composer
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.
Splendor in the Grass
Original Music Composer
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.
メル・ブルックス/珍説世界史PART I
Original Music Composer
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
The Mating Season
Original Music Composer
They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose main interest is birdwatching?
エレファント・マン
Original Music Composer
19世紀末、ロンドン。医師トリーブスは、街の見世物小屋で象人間と呼ばれていたジョン・メリックに出会う。研究のために彼を病院で生活させるが、やがてメリックの知性と純粋な心に触れ、人間らしい交流が生まれる。<19世紀末に実在した奇型の青年の数奇な運命と、彼をとりまく人々との交流を描き世界的に大ヒットした不朽の名作。鬼才デイヴィッド・リンチは本作の成功で一躍脚光を浴びた。出演には、本作で英国アカデミー賞主演男優賞に輝いたジョン・ハート、アンソニー・ホプキンス、サー・ジョン・ギールグッドら>
In God We Tru$t
Music
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
Doctor Franken
Music
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors.
The In-Laws
Music
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
メル・ブルックス/新サイコ
Orchestrator
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
メル・ブルックス/新サイコ
Conductor
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
メル・ブルックス/新サイコ
Original Music Composer
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
The World's Greatest Lover
Music
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
メル・ブルックスのサイレント・ムービー
Original Music Composer
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Music
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
ヤング・フランケンシュタイン
Conductor
アメリカの脳外科医フレデリックは、かのフランケンシュタイン博士の孫。彼は家督を継ぐため祖父の城に行くが、その城の地下に実験室と実験ノートを発見、誘惑にかられて怪物を甦らせてしまう。しかもアブノーマルな脳みそを入れてしまった為に、村中が大騒動に……!
ヤング・フランケンシュタイン
Original Music Composer
アメリカの脳外科医フレデリックは、かのフランケンシュタイン博士の孫。彼は家督を継ぐため祖父の城に行くが、その城の地下に実験室と実験ノートを発見、誘惑にかられて怪物を甦らせてしまう。しかもアブノーマルな脳みそを入れてしまった為に、村中が大騒動に……!
ヤング・フランケンシュタイン
Orchestrator
アメリカの脳外科医フレデリックは、かのフランケンシュタイン博士の孫。彼は家督を継ぐため祖父の城に行くが、その城の地下に実験室と実験ノートを発見、誘惑にかられて怪物を甦らせてしまう。しかもアブノーマルな脳みそを入れてしまった為に、村中が大騒動に……!
ブレージングサドル
Orchestrator
法も秩序もない西部のある町。腹黒い知事は、黒人奴隷バートを保安官にして住民の不安を募らせ、彼らを町から追い出すことを企てる。だがバートは監獄の常連ジムと意気投合し、知事が送り込んだ無法者一味に立ち向かうのだった。
ブレージングサドル
Songs
法も秩序もない西部のある町。腹黒い知事は、黒人奴隷バートを保安官にして住民の不安を募らせ、彼らを町から追い出すことを企てる。だがバートは監獄の常連ジムと意気投合し、知事が送り込んだ無法者一味に立ち向かうのだった。
ブレージングサドル
Original Music Composer
法も秩序もない西部のある町。腹黒い知事は、黒人奴隷バートを保安官にして住民の不安を募らせ、彼らを町から追い出すことを企てる。だがバートは監獄の常連ジムと意気投合し、知事が送り込んだ無法者一味に立ち向かうのだった。
The Twelve Chairs
Original Music Composer
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
The Producers
Conductor
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
The Producers
Original Music Composer
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
The New Clue
Compositor
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.