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My Take
Marco Beltrami is, to me, one of the most underrated names in modern film scoring. The Scream scores alone earned him my respect, but what impresses me is the range, jumping from horror to 3:10 to Yuma's Western textures to the near-silence of A Quiet Place, where the music had to almost disappear. That last one is the kind of restraint a lot of composers never learn. Fellow Brown University alum to Bess Armstrong, oddly enough. I tend to notice his work without noticing his name, which is honestly the highest compliment you can pay a film composer. He serves the picture first.
Overview
Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place, the Fear Street trilogy, and The Nun II), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science fiction (I, Robot; Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma,…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marco Beltrami
- Name (Japanese)
- マルコ・ベルトラミ
- Reading
- まるこ・べるとらみ
- Born
- October 7, 1966 (age 59)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Horse
- Origin
- Long Island, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- composer / film score composer / conductor / musician / bandleader
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Ward Melville High School
- University
- Brown University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.