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Vangelis

Known for: Sound

Biography: 1943-03-29

Deathday: 2022-05-17 (79 years old)

Biography

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, best known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and composing scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).

Filmography

all 51

Movies 45

self 7

TV Shows 6

Vangelis

Biography

Filmography

all 51

Movies 45

self 7

TV Shows 6

Director 1

We are Stardust (2023)

Nuclear Now (2023)

Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)

The Creator of the Jungle (2014)

Twilight of Shadows (2014)

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies (2013)

Trashed (2012)

Rupture: A Matter of Life OR Death (2011)

Świadectwo (2008)

The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick (2007)

El Greco (2007)

Alexander (2004)

Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey) (2002)

Cavafy (1996)

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Bitter Moon (1992)

ECHO-Verleihung (1992)

Vangelis – Eureka (Live at Rotterdam, 1991) (1991)

Starwatcher (1991)

De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (1989)

De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (1989)

Francesco (1989)

Nosferatu in Venice (1988)

Catwalk (1985)

Sauvage et beau (1984)

The Bounty (1984)

Antarctica (1983)

Blade Runner (1982)

Pablo Picasso Painter (1982)

Missing (1982)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

The Cosmic Machine (1981)

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

Mater amatísima (1980)

Death of a Princess (1980)

Defiant Delta (1980)

The Mantle of Love (1978)

Crime and Passion (1976)

The Wild Nation (1976)

Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? (1975)

Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (1975)

Love (1974)

The Apocalypse of the Animals (1972)

Frenzy (1971)

Sex Power (1970)

Vortex (1967)

Five Thousand Lies (1966)

4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1966)

Ο Αδελφός μου... ο Τροχονόμος (1963)

Discorama (1959)

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Information

Known ForSound

GenderMale

Birthday1943-03-29

Deathday2022-05-17 (79 years old)

Birth NameΕυάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου

Birth PlaceAgria, Greece

CitizenshipsGreece

Also Known AsEvángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou

AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

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Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1943-03-29

Deathday
2022-05-17 (79 years old)

Birth Name
Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου

Birth Place
Agria, Greece

Citizenships
Greece

Also Known As
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou

Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres