David Mansfield Biography (1956-)

Born September 13, 1956, in Pittsburgh, PA; son of Newton Mansfield and Gwyndolyn Graves (maiden name, Lewis) Holtham; married Joann Carelli, September 28, 1979 (marriage ended); married Maggie Greenwald, 1994; children: (first marriage) Calantha. Addresses: Agent: Joseph Cohen, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Contact: Rich Jacobellis,Ingenuity Entertainment, 9000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 300, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer, musician
Birth Details: September 13, 1956; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Music arranger and band member, Heaven's Gate (also known as Johnson County Wars), United Artists, 1980
Music performer, Timerider, Jensen Farley, 1982
Music arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and song performer, Year of the Dragon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1985
Music arranger and conductor, The Sicilian, Twentieth Century-Fox,1987
Music arranger (with others) and conductor, Desperate Hours, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1990
Music performer, The Apostle, October Films, 1997
Music performer, Harvest, Artisan Entertainment, 1998
Music arranger, director, and performer, Songcatcher, Lions Gate Films, 2001
Music arranger (with others), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., 2002
Film Appearances
Appeared in the film Renaldo and Clara.
Television Work
Movies
Music performer, A Good Baby, Cinemax, 2000
Television Appearances
Specials
Appeared in Hard Rain, NBC.
RECORDINGS
Albums
(With Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends) Media Push, Warner Bros., 1973
(With Alpha) The Alpha Band, Arista, 1976
(With Alpha) Spark in the Dark, Arista, 1977
(With Alpha) The Statue Makers of Hollywood, Arista, 1978
Heaven's Gate (soundtrack recording), EMI/Liberty, 1980
Year of the Dragon (soundtrack recording), Varese-Sarabande, 1985
(With Evercall Ready) Evercall Ready, Maranatha! Music, 1985
(With Bruce Hornsby and the Range) The Way It Is, RCA, 1986
The Sicilian (soundtrack recording), Virgin, 1987
(With Alpha) Interviews, Edsel, 1988
The Desperate Hours (soundtrack recording), Varese-Sarabande, 1990
(With Bruce Hornsby and the Range) A Night on the Town, RCA, 1990
(Contributor) Tales from the Crypt (soundtrack recordings), Big Screen, 1992
The Ballad of Little Jo (soundtrack recording), Intrada, 1994
(Contributor) Lonesome Dove: Classics Western Scores 2 (soundtrackrecordings), Silva America, 1996
Contributor to albums recorded by many other artists, including Murray Attaway, Vince Bell, Cindy Bullens, T-Bone Burnett, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Loudon Wainwright III, and Dwight Yoakum. Singles include "Desire" and "Hard Rain."
Music Videos
Appeared in "Mandolin Rain," "A Night on the Town," and "The Way It Is."

WRITINGS
Film Music
Heaven's Gate (also known as Johnson County Wars), United Artists, 1980
Year of the Dragon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1985
Club Paradise, Warner Bros., 1986
The Sicilian, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
Miss Firecracker, Corsair, 1989
Desperate Hours, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1990
Late for Dinner, Columbia, 1991
Me and Veronica, Arrow, 1993
The Ballad of Little Jo, Fine Line, 1993
The Outlaws: Legend of O. B. Taggart, EnterTech Media Group, 1994
Profundo carmesi (also known as Deep Crimson and Carminprofond), 1996, with English subtitles, New Yorker, 1997
The Apostle, October Films, 1997
El evangelio de las maravillas (also known as Divine), Keyfilms Roma/Mondo Films/Wanda Distribucion Cinematografica de Films, 1998
Dark Harbor, New City Releasing, 1998
Tumbleweeds, Fine Line, 1999
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (also known as No One Writes to the Colonel, Pas de lettre pour le colonel, and Personnen'ecrit au colonel), Alta Films/DMVB Films/Eurocine/Keyfilms Roma, 1999
Floating, Phaedra Cinema, 1999
Ropewalk (also known as Hanginaround), Winter Films, 2000
Asi es la vida (also known as Such Is Life and C'est lavie), Wanda Vision, 2000
Songcatcher, Lions Gate Films, 2001
Flora's Garment Bursting into Bloom, Dameworks, 2001
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., 2002
Television Music
Movies
Into the Homeland, HBO, 1987
David's Mother, CBS, 1994
Dangerous Affair, ABC, 1995
Truman, HBO, 1995
The Stranger beside Me, ABC, 1995
A Streetcar Named Desire, CBS, 1995
Radiant City, ABC, 1996
The People Next Door, CBS, 1996
Suddenly, ABC, 1996
The Advocate's Devil, ABC, 1997
Road Ends, Cinemax, 1997
Outrage, ABC, 1998
A Winter's Tale, CBS, 2000
A Good Baby, Cinemax, 2000
Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story, CBS, 2000
What Makes a Family, Lifetime, 2001
Get a Clue, The Disney Channel, 2002
Tempted, Lifetime, 2003
Specials
"The Mouse and the Motorcycle," ABC Weekend Special, ABC, 1986
"Mrs. Cage," American Playhouse, PBS, 1992
Great Books: The Right Stuff (also known as The Right Stuff), The Discovery Channel/The Learning Channel, 2001
Episodic
"Dead Wait," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's Tales from the Crypt), HBO, 1991
Also composer for "The Box," Tribeca, Fox.
Television Pilots
Hard Copy, CBS, 1987
Tribeca, Fox, 1993
Other
Songwriter.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic

David Mansfield Official Site, http://members.aol.com/smashprod, May 20, 2003

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