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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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John Romano to Waldo Salt
Jeff Rona Biography (1957-)
Born March 3, 1957, in Culver City, CA; father, a research chemist; married Judy Silk (divorced). Addresses: Agent: Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, 13245Riverside Dr., Suite 450, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423; Soundtrack Music Associates, 15760 Ventura Blvd., Suite 2021, Encino, CA 91436.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Composer, orchestrator, music arranger, conductor, sound designer, and musician
- Birth Details
- March 3, 1957
- Culver City, California, United States
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Film Work
- (As Jeffrey Rona) Sound designer, sound effects editor, and music performer, Powaqqatsi (also known as Powwaqatsi: Life in Transformation), Cannon/New Yorker Films, 1988
- Music performer, Double Impact, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1991
- Music programmer, Kafka, Miramax, 1991
- Score sounds technician and music performer, Toys, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
- Music arranger and conductor, The Prince of Egypt (animated), DreamWorks, 1998
- Member of Mission Impossible II Band, Mission: Impossible 2, Paramount, 2000
- Music conductor, Picking Up the Pieces, Kushner-Locke, 2000
- Music programmer and orchestrator, Traffic (also known as Traffic--Die Macht des Kartells), USA Films, 2000
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RECORDINGS
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Album Producer
- Jon Hassell, City: Works of Fiction, Opal/Warner Bros., 1990
- Affiliated with other albums, including Leaves from the Tree: A Tribute to Peter Gabriel, Vitamin Records, 2002; and Transplanet (series), Triloka Records.
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WRITINGS
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Film Music
- (Uncredited) Additional music, Kafka, Miramax, 1991
- Additional music, Toys, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
- Additional music, Younger and Younger, Kushner-Locke, 1993
- Additional music, The Lion King (animated; also known as King of the Jungle), Buena Vista, 1994, also released in an IMAX format
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Lipstick Camera, Triboro Entertainment Group, 1994
- Additional music, Assassins (also known as Day of Reckoning), Warner Bros., 1995
- Additional music, The Net, Columbia, 1995
- Additional music, The Fan, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1996
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White Squall, Buena Vista, 1996
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Do Me a Favor (also known as Trading Favors), Imperial Entertainment, 1997
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Schizopolis (also known as Steven Soderbergh's "Schizopolis"), Northern Arts Entertainment, 1997
- Additional ambient music, The Thin Red Line (also known as La mince ligne rouge), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
- Additional music, Chill Factor, Warner Bros., 1999
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The In Crowd, Warner Bros., 2000
- (Uncredited) Additional music, Traffic (also known as Traffic--Die Macht des Kartells), USA Films, 2000
- Additional music, Black Hawk Down, Columbia, 2001
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Exit Wounds, Warner Bros., 2001
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The Hire: The Follow, BMW Films, 2001
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The Mothman Prophecies (also known as Mothman and The Mothman), Sony Pictures Entertainment/Screen Gems, 2002
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Little Black Boot, Power Up Films, 2003
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Slow Burn, GreeneStreet Films/Bonnie Timmerman Productions, 2004
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A Thousand Roads, 2005
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Phoenix Pictures, 2005
- Provided music for the documentary The Art of Survival.
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Television Music
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Series
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Homicide: Life on the Street (also known as H: LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1993-99
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The Critic (animated), ABC, 1994, Fox, 1995
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Chicago Hope, CBS, 1994-98
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High Incident, ABC, 1996-97
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Profiler, NBC, 1996-97
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Gun (also known as Robert Altman's "Gun"), ABC, 1997
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Sleepwalkers (also known as The Sleepwalker Project), NBC,1997-98
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Teen Angel, ABC, 1997-98
- Main theme music, L.A. Doctors (also known as L.A. Docs), CBS, 1998-99
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The Residents, Fit TV, beginning 2003
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Miniseries
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NetForce (also known as Tom Clancy's "NetForce"), ABC, 1999
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Category 6: Day of Destruction, CBS, 2004
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Legend of Earthsea (also known as Earthsea), Sci-Fi Channel, 2004
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Traffic (also known as Traffic: The Miniseries), USA Network, 2004
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Movies
- Additional music, Black Magic, Showtime, 1992
- Additional music, Sensation, HBO, 1995
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Death in Small Doses, ABC, 1995
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Black Cat Run, HBO, 1998
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Mind Prey (also known as John Sanford's "Mind Prey"), ABC,1999
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Shelter Island, Showtime, 2003
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The Riverman, Arts and Entertainment, 2004
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Pilots
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The Dead Zone (also known as Stephen King's "Dead Zone"), USA Network, 2002
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Nonfiction
- (As Jeff C. Rona; with Ronny S. Schiff) MIDI: The In's, Out's, and Thru's, Hal Leonard, 1990
- (With Schiff and Scott R. Wilkinson) Synchronization from Reel to Reel: A Complete Guide for the Synchronization of Audio, Film and Video, HalLeonard, 1990
- (Editor with Wilkinson) The MIDI Companion, Hal Leonard, 1994
- (As Jeff C. Rona) The Reel World, Backbeat Books, 1999
- Columnist for Keyboard magazine for several years.
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Albums
- (With others) Jon Hassell, City: Works of Fiction, Opal/Warner Bros., 1990
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Soundtrack Albums
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White Squall, Hollywood Records, 1996
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Chicago Hope, Sonic Images, 1997
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Traffic, 2000
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Black Hawk Down, Decca, 2002
- Rona's film and television music has been recorded on other soundtrack albums.
Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES
Electronic
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Jeff Rona Official Site, http://www.jeffrona.com, February 9, 2005
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