American composer and conductor

John Debney

John Cardon Debney is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres like comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of Disney and has written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors including Donald Petrie, Beau Bridges, Rob Cohen, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Ivan Reitman, Adam Shankman, Walt Becker, Brian Robbins, Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A.

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1956

August 18

Died

Living

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1950s

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The world in 1956

When John arrived

april 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
april 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
april 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
april 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

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