Elmer Bernstein: movies and TV shows
Elmer Bernstein has 230 credits in the archive: 222 films and 8 TV series, from 1951 to 2026. Highest rated: Michael Jackson's Thriller (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2026 · busiest year: 1957 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cape Fear | TV | 7.0 | 104 | |
| 2011 | Torrente 4: Lethal crisis | Film | 5.5 | 89 | |
| 2007 | Return Of The Ghostbusters | Film | 6.0 | 85 | |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | Film | 6.5 | 82 | |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Film | 7.1 | 80 | |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Cape Fear' | Self | Film | 7.4 | 79 |
| 2000 | Keeping the Faith | Film | 6.1 | 78 | |
| 2000 | Chinese Coffee | Film | 6.7 | 78 | |
| 2000 | A Storm in Summer | Film | 6.4 | 78 | |
| 2000 | Frank Sinatra Memorial | Self | Film | — | 78 |
| 2000 | Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 1999 | Wild Wild West | Film | 5.3 | 77 | |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead | Film | 6.6 | 77 | |
| 1999 | Bringing Out the Dead | Film | 6.6 | 77 | |
| 1999 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Film | 6.6 | 77 | |
| 1999 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Film | 6.4 | 77 | |
| 1999 | Making 'Taxi Driver' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 77 |
| 1999 | Imagining 'Heavy Metal' | Film | 10.0 | 77 | |
| 1998 | Twilight | Film | 6.1 | 76 | |
| 1998 | Puppies for Sale | Film | — | 76 | |
| 1998 | The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion | Self - Composer | Film | 7.3 | 76 |
| 1998 | Fearful Symmetry | Self | Film | 5.3 | 76 |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Film | 7.0 | 75 | |
| 1997 | Hoodlum | Film | 6.5 | 75 | |
| 1997 | Buddy | Film | 5.0 | 75 | |
| 1996 | Bulletproof | Film | 5.8 | 74 | |
| 1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Film | 6.5 | 73 | |
| 1995 | A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | TV | 8.5 | 73 | |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | Film | 5.8 | 73 | |
| 1995 | Roommates | Film | 5.7 | 73 | |
| 1995 | Roommates | Film | 5.7 | 73 | |
| 1995 | Frankie Starlight | Film | 5.3 | 73 | |
| 1995 | Search and Destroy | Film | 4.8 | 73 | |
| 1995 | The Hollywood Soundtrack Story | Self | Film | — | 73 |
| 1994 | The Bible According to Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | TV | 6.6 | 71 | |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Film | 7.0 | 71 | |
| 1993 | The Good Son | Film | 6.8 | 71 | |
| 1993 | Mad Dog and Glory | Film | 6.0 | 71 | |
| 1993 | The Cemetery Club | Film | 5.5 | 71 | |
| 1993 | Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' | Self | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Film | 6.3 | 71 | |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Film | 6.3 | 71 | |
| 1992 | The Babe | Film | 5.7 | 70 | |
| 1992 | Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann | Self | Film | 6.8 | 70 |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | Film | 7.3 | 69 | |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | Film | 7.3 | 69 | |
| 1991 | Oscar | Film | 6.4 | 69 | |
| 1991 | Rambling Rose | Film | 6.2 | 69 | |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Film | 5.4 | 69 | |
| 1990 | The Field | Film | 7.0 | 68 | |
| 1990 | The Grifters | Film | 6.5 | 68 | |
| 1989 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Film | 7.5 | 67 | |
| 1989 | Slipstream | Film | 4.3 | 67 | |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | Film | 5.7 | 66 | |
| 1988 | Da | Film | 6.9 | 66 | |
| 1988 | Funny Farm | Film | 6.2 | 66 | |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck | Film | 5.8 | 65 | |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck | Film | 5.8 | 65 | |
| 1987 | Leonard Part 6 | Film | 2.9 | 65 | |
| 1986 | ¡Three Amigos! | Film | 6.3 | 64 | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Film | 6.1 | 64 | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Film | 6.1 | 64 | |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | Film | 6.4 | 63 | |
| 1985 | Spies Like Us | Film | 6.2 | 63 | |
| 1985 | Prince Jack | Film | 9.0 | 63 | |
| 1985 | Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie | Film | 9.0 | 63 | |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Film | 7.5 | 62 | |
| 1983 | Trading Places | Film | 7.2 | 61 | |
| 1983 | Michael Jackson's Thriller | Film | 8.3 | 61 | |
| 1983 | Class | Film | 5.9 | 61 | |
| 1983 | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Film | 5.4 | 61 | |
| 1982 | Airplane II: The Sequel | Film | 6.1 | 60 | |
| 1982 | Five Days One Summer | Film | 5.7 | 60 | |
| 1982 | Genocide | Film | 7.6 | 60 | |
| 1982 | Genocide | Film | 7.6 | 60 | |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London | Film | 7.4 | 59 | |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London | Film | 7.4 | 59 | |
| 1981 | Stripes | Film | 6.6 | 59 | |
| 1981 | Heavy Metal | Film | 6.5 | 59 | |
| 1981 | The Chosen | Film | 7.1 | 59 | |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway | Film | 5.3 | 59 | |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway | Film | 5.3 | 59 | |
| 1981 | Going Ape! | Film | 4.5 | 59 | |
| 1980 | Airplane! | Film | 7.3 | 58 | |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Film | 7.7 | 58 | |
| 1980 | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | TV | 7.3 | 58 | |
| 1980 | Saturn 3 | Film | 5.3 | 58 | |
| 1980 | This Year's Blonde | Film | 6.3 | 58 | |
| 1979 | Meatballs | Film | 5.8 | 57 | |
| 1979 | Zulu Dawn | Film | 6.1 | 57 | |
| 1979 | The Great Santini | Film | 6.8 | 57 | |
| 1979 | Charleston | Film | 8.0 | 57 | |
| 1978 | Animal House | Film | 7.0 | 56 | |
| 1978 | Little Women | TV | 6.3 | 56 | |
| 1978 | Bloodbrothers | Film | 5.8 | 56 | |
| 1978 | Cezanne | Film | 7.0 | 56 | |
| 1977 | Calypso's Search for the Britannic | Film | — | 55 | |
| 1977 | Powers of Ten | Film | 7.7 | 55 | |
| 1977 | The 3,000 Mile Chase | Film | 7.0 | 55 | |
| 1977 | Billy Jack Goes to Washington | Film | 6.5 | 55 | |
| 1976 | The Shootist | Film | 7.1 | 54 | |
| 1976 | From Noon Till Three | Songwriter (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1976 | From Noon Till Three | Film | 5.9 | 54 | |
| 1976 | Serpico: The Deadly Game | Film | 9.0 | 54 | |
| 1976 | The Incredible Sarah | Film | 5.6 | 54 | |
| 1975 | Report to the Commissioner | Film | 6.6 | 53 | |
| 1975 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Film | 4.8 | 53 | |
| 1975 | Metropolitan Overview | Film | — | 53 | |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects | Film | 8.0 | 53 | |
| 1974 | McQ | Film | 6.1 | 52 | |
| 1974 | Gold | Film | 5.8 | 52 | |
| 1974 | Gold | Film | 5.8 | 52 | |
| 1974 | Gold | Film | 5.8 | 52 | |
| 1974 | Nightmare Honeymoon | Film | 5.5 | 52 | |
| 1974 | The Trial of Billy Jack | Film | 5.9 | 52 | |
| 1974 | Men of the Dragon | Film | 7.0 | 52 | |
| 1973 | Cahill: United States Marshal | Film | 6.1 | 51 | |
| 1973 | Incident on a Dark Street | Film | 5.3 | 51 | |
| 1973 | Nicholas Copernicus | Film | 8.0 | 51 | |
| 1972 | The Magnificent Seven Ride! | Film | 5.6 | 50 | |
| 1972 | The Magnificent Seven Ride! | Film | 5.6 | 50 | |
| 1972 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Film | 6.6 | 50 | |
| 1972 | The Rookies | Film | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 1972 | Computer Perspective | Film | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 1971 | Big Jake | Film | 6.9 | 49 | |
| 1971 | Appointment With Destiny | TV | 10.0 | 49 | |
| 1971 | See No Evil | Film | 6.5 | 49 | |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Film | 5.0 | 49 | |
| 1971 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Film | 7.8 | 49 | |
| 1971 | Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age | Film | — | 49 | |
| 1971 | Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger | Film | 10.0 | 49 | |
| 1970 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones | Film | 6.0 | 48 | |
| 1970 | Cannon for Cordoba | Film | 5.6 | 48 | |
| 1970 | A Walk in the Spring Rain | Film | 5.7 | 48 | |
| 1969 | True Grit | Film | 7.3 | 47 | |
| 1969 | True Grit | Film | 7.3 | 47 | |
| 1969 | The Bridge at Remagen | Film | 6.7 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Film | 5.4 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Film | 5.4 | 47 | |
| 1969 | The Gypsy Moths | Film | 6.1 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Where's Jack? | Film | 7.5 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Midas Run | Film | 4.7 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Tops | Film | 8.3 | 47 | |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters | Film | 6.4 | 46 | |
| 1968 | I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! | Film | 5.1 | 46 | |
| 1968 | A Computer Glossary | Film | 7.5 | 46 | |
| 1968 | A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1967 | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Film | 6.9 | 45 | |
| 1966 | Cast a Giant Shadow | Film | 6.4 | 44 | |
| 1966 | Return of the Seven | Film | 6.1 | 44 | |
| 1966 | The Silencers | Film | 6.0 | 44 | |
| 1966 | Hawaii | Film | 6.3 | 44 | |
| 1966 | View from the People Wall | Film | — | 44 | |
| 1965 | The Sons of Katie Elder | Film | 7.1 | 43 | |
| 1965 | 7 Women | Film | 6.5 | 43 | |
| 1965 | The Hallelujah Trail | Film | 6.1 | 43 | |
| 1965 | Baby the Rain Must Fall | Film | 6.0 | 43 | |
| 1965 | Baby the Rain Must Fall | Film | 6.0 | 43 | |
| 1965 | The Reward | Film | 6.0 | 43 | |
| 1965 | The Bold Men | Film | — | 43 | |
| 1965 | The Smithsonian Institution | Film | 9.0 | 43 | |
| 1965 | IBM at the Fair | Film | 6.0 | 43 | |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers | Film | 5.9 | 42 | |
| 1964 | The World of Henry Orient | Film | 5.9 | 42 | |
| 1964 | Four Days In November | Film | 6.4 | 42 | |
| 1963 | The Great Escape | Film | 7.9 | 41 | |
| 1963 | Hud | Film | 7.2 | 41 | |
| 1963 | Kings of the Sun | Film | 6.1 | 41 | |
| 1963 | Love with the Proper Stranger | Film | 6.8 | 41 | |
| 1963 | The Caretakers | Film | 6.4 | 41 | |
| 1963 | Rampage | Film | 5.3 | 41 | |
| 1963 | The Making of the President 1960 | Film | — | 41 | |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Film | 8.0 | 40 | |
| 1962 | Birdman of Alcatraz | Film | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Film | 6.6 | 40 | |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Film | 6.6 | 40 | |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Film | 6.6 | 40 | |
| 1962 | A Girl Named Tamiko | Film | 5.8 | 40 | |
| 1961 | The Comancheros | Film | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1961 | Summer and Smoke | Film | 6.6 | 39 | |
| 1961 | By Love Possessed | Film | 5.3 | 39 | |
| 1961 | Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem | Film | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1961 | The Young Doctors | Film | 5.8 | 39 | |
| 1961 | 2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers | Film | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven | Film | 7.5 | 38 | |
| 1960 | The Fabulous Fifties | Film | 6.0 | 38 | |
| 1960 | From the Terrace | Film | 6.6 | 38 | |
| 1960 | The Rat Race | Film | 6.8 | 38 | |
| 1960 | An Introduction to Feedback | Film | 10.0 | 38 | |
| 1959 | The Miracle | Film | 6.7 | 37 | |
| 1959 | The Story on Page One | Film | 5.1 | 37 | |
| 1958 | Some Came Running | Film | 7.0 | 36 | |
| 1958 | Saddle the Wind | Film | 6.7 | 36 | |
| 1958 | The Buccaneer | Film | 6.5 | 36 | |
| 1958 | God's Little Acre | Film | 6.2 | 36 | |
| 1958 | Desire Under the Elms | Film | 6.8 | 36 | |
| 1958 | Kings Go Forth | Film | 6.1 | 36 | |
| 1958 | Anna Lucasta | Film | 6.2 | 36 | |
| 1957 | Sweet Smell of Success | Film | 7.6 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Sweet Smell of Success | Film | 7.6 | 35 | |
| 1957 | The Tin Star | Film | 7.0 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Fear Strikes Out | Film | 7.2 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Men in War | Film | 6.7 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Men in War | Film | 6.7 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Drango | Film | 5.6 | 35 | |
| 1957 | The Information Machine | Film | 6.0 | 35 | |
| 1957 | Toccata for Toy Trains | Film | 7.5 | 35 | |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Film | 7.8 | 34 | |
| 1956 | The Naked Eye | Film | — | 34 | |
| 1955 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Film | 7.2 | 33 | |
| 1955 | The Eternal Sea | Film | 6.6 | 33 | |
| 1955 | It's a Dog's Life | Film | 4.3 | 33 | |
| 1955 | Storm Fear | Film | 6.0 | 33 | |
| 1955 | The View from Pompey's Head | Film | 3.8 | 33 | |
| 1955 | House: After Five Years of Living | Film | 5.8 | 33 | |
| 1954 | Make Haste to Live | Film | 6.0 | 32 | |
| 1954 | Silent Raiders | Film | 6.3 | 32 | |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | TV | 6.8 | 31 | |
| 1953 | Never Wave at a WAC | Film | 5.0 | 31 | |
| 1953 | Cat-Women of the Moon | Film | 4.1 | 31 | |
| 1953 | Robot Monster | Film | 4.5 | 31 | |
| 1953 | Miss Robin Crusoe | Film | 6.5 | 31 | |
| 1953 | A Communications Primer | Film | 5.0 | 31 | |
| 1952 | Sudden Fear | Film | 7.3 | 30 | |
| 1952 | Boots Malone | Film | 8.1 | 30 | |
| 1952 | Battles of Chief Pontiac | Film | 5.7 | 30 | |
| 1951 | Saturday's Hero | Film | 6.3 | 29 | |
| Taking The Wheel | Film | 9.0 | — |