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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 56

Movies 50

self 8

TV Shows 6

Director 1

Music

Vangelis

Biography

Filmography

all 56

Movies 50

self 8

TV Shows 6

Director 1

Beyond, ode to the Earth (2024)

We are Stardust (2023)

Nuclear Now (2022)

Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)

The Creator of the Jungle (2014)

Twilight of Shadows (2014)

Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka (2013)

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: ing 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)

The Plague (1992)

ECHO-Verleihung (1992)

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

Black Ink (1991)

Starwatcher (1991)

De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (1989)

De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (1989)

sco (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 ion (1976)

The Wild Nation (1976)

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

Credited with

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

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