Biography
Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist.
He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni.
After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music.
From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: Trois mouvements d'été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas...).
In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for Alexandre le Bienheureux.
Vladimir Cosma has since composed more than three hundred scores for feature films and TV series. His numerous successes in the cinema have notably been in collaboration with Yves Robert, Gérard Oury, Francis Veber, Claude Pinoteau, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Claude Zidi, Ettore Scola, Pascal Thomas, Pierre Richard, Yves Boisset, André Cayatte, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Edouard Molinaro, Jean-Marie Poiré... and among which: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, Diva, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, La Boum, le Bal, l'As des As, la Chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Les Zozos, Pleure pas la bouche pleine, Dupont Lajoie, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, La Dérobade, Le Père Noël est une ordure, L'Étudiante, La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le dîner de cons ...
Vladimir Cosma also featured in major French and American television productions: Michel Strogoff, Kidnapped, Mistral's Daughter, Châteauvallon, Les Mystères de Paris, Les Cœurs Brûlés...
Film music allowed him to approach and develop many different musical styles: jazz (with music written for famous soloists such as Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Don Byas, Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Philip Catherine, Tony Coe, Pepper Adams, la chanson (pour Nana Mouskouri, Marie Laforêt, Richard Sanderson, Diane Dufresne, Herbert Léonard, Mireille Mathieu, Nicole Croisille, Lara Fabian, Guy Marchand), original compositions inspired by folk-music (for Gheorghe Zamfir, Stanciu Simion Syrinx, pan-flute, Liam O'Flynn- pipes, Romane-guitar), as well as classical music (Berlin Concerto for violin and orchestra, Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra, Concerto Ibérique for trumpet and orchestra, Courts Métrages for brass quintet...). ...
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Filmography
all 219
Movies 202
TV Shows 17
self 5
Director 2
Producer 1
Les Affaires sont les affaires (2024)
Life Lessons (2023)
Ballet... ballet (2023)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel (2023)
The Neverending Party (2023)
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber (2022)
Tous flics ! (2022)
Piano Cinéma (2022)
Octave (2017)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
Vénéneuses (2017)
Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017)
Chess (2016)
Rouges étaient les lilas (2016)
Le cabanon rose (2016)
Je veux être actrice (2016)
Le chapeau de Mitterrand (2016)
Agafia (2015)
Le Rustre et le Juge (2015)
Le Magicien et les Siamois (2015)
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette (2015)
Tu es si jolie ce soir (2015)
Calomnies (2014)
Le mystère des jonquilles (2014)
Dors mon lapin (2014)
À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)
Le Renard jaune (2013)
Le Mentor (2013)
Vladimir Cosma, tout pour la musique (2012)
Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011)
Hitler in Hollywood (2011)
Les Insomniaques (2011)
Dossier Toroto (2011)
Crédit pour tous (2011)
Colère (2010)
Climax (2009)
Un risque à courir (2009)
13 French Street (2007)
Le Bénévole (2007)
Touristes? Oh Yes! (2007)
Les Ballets écarlates (2007)
Le deal (2007)
A Year in My Life (2006)
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre (2005)
Grabuge! (2005)
Albert est méchant (2004)
Le Furet (2003)
Marche et rêve ! Les homards de l'utopie (2002)
The Closet (2001)
The Cow and the President (2000)
César (2000)
Fanny (2000)
Marius (2000)
The Son of Français (1999)
Le Schpountz (1999)
La femme du boulanger (1999)
The News Puppets (1999)
The Dinner Game (1998)
Soleil (1997)
Pierre and Marie (1997)
The Best Job in the World (1996)
Jaguar (1996)
Le Cheval de cœur (1996)
Quicksand (1996)
Dazzle (1995)
L'Affaire (1994)
Cache Cash (1994)
Bonsoir (1994)
Montparnasse-Pondichéry (1994)
The Thirst for Gold (1993)
Coup de jeune (1993)
Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
Leon's Husband (1993)
The Yellow Mercedes (1993)
The Supper (1992)
La Femme abandonnée (1992)
Ville à vendre (1992)
Le Bal des casse-pieds (1992)
The Jackpot! (1991)
Snow and Fire (1991)
The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
La Pagaille (1991)
Night of the Fox (1990)
My Mother's Castle (1990)
My Father's Glory (1990)
Il gèle en enfer (1990)
Der Atem (1989)
L'Été de la Révolution (1989)
La Vouivre (1989)
La Belle Anglaise (1988)
The Student (1988)
Corps z'à corps (1988)
Promised... sworn! (1987)
Rahan, fils des ages farouches (1987)
Nitwits (1987)
The Little Coquette (1987)
Cœurs croisés (1987)
Le Moustachu (1987)
Levy & Goliath (1987)
The Fugitives (1986)
Le Tiroir secret (1986)
Asterix in Britain (1986)
Death on a Rainy Sunday (1986)
L'été 36 (1986)
La Galette du roi (1986)
La poudre aux yeux (1985)
Le Gaffeur (1985)
Drôle de samedi (1985)
Les Rois du gag (1985)
Asterix vs. Caesar (1985)
Châteauvallon (1985)
Edgar et sa bonne - Voyage autour de ma marmite (1985)
The Seventh Target (1984)
Just the Way You Are (1984)
Led by the Nose (1984)
The Defective Detective (1984)
The Twin (1984)
Billet doux (1984)
Mistral's Daughter (1984)
L'étincelle (1984)
Petit Con (1984)
La Chambre des dames (1983)
Le Bal (1983)
The ComDads (1983)
Banzaï (1983)
Tout le monde peut se tromper (1983)
The Prize of Peril (1983)
The Party 2 (1982)
Ace of Aces (1982)
Jamais avant le mariage (1982)
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Les p’tites têtes (1982)
The Under-Gifted In Vacation (1982)
La Chèvre (1981)
Les Roses de Dublin (1981)
A Business of Men (1981)
Secrets of the Satin Blues (1981)
Next Year If All Goes Well (1981)
Pourquoi pas nous ? (1981)
Diva (1981)
The Ones That Got Away (1981)
The Collector of Brains (1981)
The Party (1980)
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Les Mystères de Paris (1980)
Umbrella Coup (1980)
The Child Woman (1980)
The Telephone Bar (1980)
Laat de dokter maar schuiven (1980)
Petit déjeuner compris (1980)
It's Not Me, It's Him (1980)
Les Jeunes Filles (1979)
Duets on Sofa (1979)
Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Courage fuyons (1979)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses (1979)
These Kids Are Grown-Ups (1979)
Les marloupins (1979)
Heart to Heart (1979)
Plein les poches pour pas un rond... (1978)
Kidnapped (1978)
Too Shy to Try (1978)
State Reasons (1978)
The Discord (1978)
Le Loup blanc (1977)
A Sea Urchin in the Pocket (1977)
Le Loup blanc (1977)
We Will All Meet in Paradise (1977)
Richelieu (1977)
Animal (1977)
To Each His Hell (1977)
Confessions of a Choir Boy (1977)
Mr. Michel's Dog (1977)
The Toy (1976)
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
Adios (1976)
Dracula and Son (1976)
La Surprise du chef (1976)
Scrambled Eggs (1976)
Michael Strogoff (1975)
Catherine & Co. (1975)
The Pink Telephone (1975)
The Phoney (1975)
The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
Sherlock Holmes: Le signe des quatre (1975)
Callaghan: un rendez-vous dans les ténèbres (1975)
The Common Man (1975)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
La main enchantée (1974)
My Husband, His Mistress and I (1974)
Le Chaud Lapin (1974)
The Superb Trip (1974)
La Gueule de l’emploi (1974)
The Girl's Dead, Man (1974)
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973)
Hail the Artist (1973)
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris (1973)
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full (1973)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
The Crazy Capo Affair (1973)
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973)
The Adulteress (1973)
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)
The Madman (1973)
The Right of the Maddest (1973)
Les Zozos (1973)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
Neither by Day Nor by Night (1972)
The Troubles of Alfred (1972)
Chaleurs (1971)
Distracted (1970)
Teresa (1970)
Misdeal (1969)
Clerambard (1969)
The Death of Joe the Indian (1968)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1968)
Very Happy Alexander (1968)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1940-04-13 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceBucharest, Romania
FatherTeodor Cosma
CitizenshipsFrance, Romania
ResidencesGheboaia, Romania
Also Known AsMiroslav Cadim, Wladimir Coma, Wladimir Cosma, Richard Eldwyn, C. Pïmper, C. Pinter
AwardsCommandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Henri-Langlois award, Order of Cultural Merit, Grand Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit
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