COMPOSER

Alex North

1910 - 1991

Photo of Alex North

Icon of person Alex North

Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer. He wrote the music for Unchained Melody as the theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), It has become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex North has received more than 523,166 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alex North is the 670th most popular composer (down from 646th in 2019), the 3,181st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,061st in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alex North ranks 670 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Strauss III, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, William Boyce, Antoine François Marmontel, Antoine Forqueray, and Antônio Carlos Gomes. After him are Otakar Ševčík, Johann Joseph Abert, Sergei Lyapunov, Louise Farrenc, Elfrida Andrée, and Ferdinand David.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Alex North ranks 129. Before him are Suleiman Frangieh, Ai Qing, Karl Kling, Richard Conte, Helene Mayer, and Artie Shaw. After him are Barbara O'Neil, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Franz Kline, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Scatman Crothers, and Rachel Kempson. Among people deceased in 1991, Alex North ranks 93. Before him are Kevin Peter Hall, Vasko Popa, Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, Richard Thorpe, and Otl Aicher. After him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Mikheil Meskhi, Schubert Gambetta, Artur Lundkvist, Luigi Zampa, and Yasushi Inoue.

Others Born in 1910

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1991

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex North ranks 3,181 out of 20,380. Before him are Marlena Shaw (1939), Joseph Strauss (1870), Ron Kovic (1946), Tallulah Bankhead (1902), Sally Ride (1951), and Tatum O'Neal (1963). After him are Chris Sarandon (1942), Anthony Fauci (1940), Josh Duhamel (1972), Thomas Curtis (1873), Donald E. Westlake (1933), and Zoe Saldana (1978).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alex North ranks 37. Before him are Stephen Sondheim (1930), Basil Poledouris (1945), Morton Feldman (1926), Stephen Foster (1826), Alfred Newman (1900), and Sun Ra (1914). After him are Amy Beach (1867), Jerome Kern (1885), Dave Grusin (1934), La Monte Young (1935), Lee Konitz (1927), and Thomas Newman (1955).

American born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous