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Hummie Mann

Hummie Mann (born October 29, 1955) is a Canadian-born American film score composer. His credits include the Mel Brooks films ' and ', as well as Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Mann was awarded an Emmy for arranging Billy Crystal's opening number for the 1992 Academy Awards and another Emmy in 1996 for an episode of Showtime's miniseries Picture Windows called "Language of the Heart". He was nominated for two more for arrangements on the series Moonlighting.

Biography

In addition to composing for television and film, Mann has orchestrated several film scores including Addams Family Values, Sister Act, Georgia Rule and Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

In 1997, Mann established the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, Washington to instruct students in film scoring, music technology, songwriting for film, and video game audio. This program merged with the Seattle Film Institute in 2011 and became accredited to confer a Masters of Music degree in Film Composition. In 2010, Mann was cited as one of the top 10 "Leaders in Learning" by Variety magazine.

Filmography

Film

  • Stoogemania (1986)
  • In Gold We Trust (1990)
  • Box-Office Bunny (1991)
  • Year of the Comet (1992)
  • Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
  • ' (1993)
  • The Red Coat (1993) (short)
  • A Test of Will (1994) (short)
  • Fall Time (1995)
  • ' (1995)
  • Sticks & Stones (1996)
  • Moving Pieces (1998) (short)
  • After the Rain (1999)
  • The Engagement Party (1999)
  • Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
  • CyberWorld (2000) (with Paul Haslinger)
  • Milk (2001) (short)
  • Wooly Boys (2001)
  • Rocket Man: Death from Above (2003) (short)
  • Bamboo Shoot (2004)
  • Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art (2006) (short)
  • Giants (2010)
  • Rocket Man and the Aerial Fortress (2013) (short)
  • A Sense of Sound (2015) (short)
  • Thomas and the Magic Railroad: 20th Anniversary Celebration (2020)
  • Rocket Man and the Phantom Baron (2020) (short)
  • The Automat (2021)
  • Vincent the Artist (TBD)

Television

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