William Ross Biography ((?)-)
Addresses: Office: Blue Focus Management, 15233 Ventura Blvd., Suite 2A, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Composer, orchestrator, conductor, arranger
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Orchestrator
- (Uncredited) Lethal Weapon, Warner Bros., 1987
- Catchfire (also known as Backtrack and Do It the Hard Way), Vestron Video, 1989
- Die Hard 2 (also known as Die Hard 2: Die Harder), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990
- One Good Cop, Buena Vista, 1991
- Ricochet, Warner Bros., 1991
- If Looks Could Kill (also known as Teen Agent), Warner Bros., 1991
- Father of the Bride, Buena Vista, 1991
- Lethal Weapon 3, Warner Bros., 1992
- (And music arranger) Death Becomes Her, Universal, 1992
- (Uncredited) The Bodyguard, Warner Bros., 1992
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest (animated), Twentieth Century-Fox,1992
- Super Mario Bros., Buena Vista, 1993
- Grumpy Old Men, Warner Bros., 1993
- Cop and a Half, 1993
- Last Action Hero, 1993
- The Three Musketeers, 1993
- Forrest Gump, Paramount, 1994
- Star Trek: Generations (also known as Star Trek 7), Paramount, 1994
- Richie Rich, Warner Bros., 1994
- The Flintstones, Universal, 1994
- Clean Slate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1994
- Blown Away, 1994
- The Little Rascals, Universal, 1994
- (And conductor) Waiting to Exhale, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1995
- The Perez Family, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1995
- Judge Dredd, Buena Vista, 1995
- Operation Dumbo Drop (also known as Dumbo Drop), Buena Vista, 1995
- Father of the Bride Part II, Buena Vista, 1995
- Grumpier Old Men (also known as Grumpy Old Men 2), Warner Bros., 1995
- And orchestra conductor, Black Sheep, Paramount, 1996
- Eraser, Warner Bros., 1996
- Tin Cup, Warner Bros., 1996
- The Long Kiss Goodnight, New Line Cinema, 1996
- Sgt. Bilko, 1996
- The Evening Star, Paramount, 1996
- Contact, Warner Bros., 1997
- Mouse Hunt, 1997
- Volcano, 1997
- The Odd Couple II (also known as Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II), Paramount, 1998
- The Parent Trap (also known as Disney's The Parent Trap), Buena Vista, 1998
- Holy Man, Buena Vista, 1998
- Practical Magic, Warner Bros., 1998
- T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous, IMAX Corp., 1998
- Payback, Paramount, 1999
- Stuart Little, 1999
- (And conductor) My Dog Skip, Warner Bros., 2000
- Reindeer Games, Dimension Films, 2000
- What Women Want, 2000
- The Mummy Returns, 2001
- Film Work
- Other
- Music conductor, Jennifer 8, 1992
- Additional orchestrations, Coneheads, 1993
- Music conductor, Thumbelina (animated; also known as Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina), Warner Bros., 1994
- Theme song orchestrator and arranger, The Little Rascals, Universal, 1994
- Song producer and arranger, Tin Cup, Warner Bros., 1996
- Song producer, A Smile Like Yours, Paramount, 1997
- Music arranger and producer, Titanic, 1997
- Additional song orchestral arrangements and song orchestrations, Questfor Camelot, 1998
- Stage Musical Arranger
- Blue Suede Shoes, State Theater, Cleveland Ballet, 1996
- WRITINGS
- Film Scores
- One Good Cop, Buena Vista, 1991
- Look Who's Talking Now, TriStar, 1993
- Cops and Robbersons, TriStar, 1994
- The Little Rascals, Universal, 1994
- Thumbelina (animated; also known as Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina), Warner Bros., 1994
- The Amazing Panda Adventure (also known as The Amazing Panda Rescue and Little Panda), Warner Bros., 1995
- Big Sheep, Paramount, 1996
- Tin Cup, Warner Bros., 1996
- The Evening Star, Paramount, 1996
- Black Sheep, Paramount, 1996
- My Fellow Americans, Warner Bros., 1996
- A Smile Like Yours, Paramount, 1997
- T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous, IMAX Corp., 1998
- Escape from Dino Island, Iwerks Entertainment, 1998
- My Dog Skip, Warner Bros., 2000
- Berlin Symphony, Iwerks Entertainment, 2000
- Tuck Everlasting, The Walt Disney Company, 2002
- Television Scores
- Miniseries
- Golden Fiddles, 1990
- Movies
- Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, ABC, 2001
- Episodic
- MacGyver, ABC, 1990-91
- Also composed for Tiny Toon Adventures (animated; also known as Steven Spielberg Presents ... Tiny Toon Adventures), Fox, then The WB.
- Suites
- Composed "Truman Suite for Speaker and Orchestra."