John Beal Biography (1947-)

Born January 20, 1947, in Santa Monica, CA; son of Ralph Raymond and MarjoryMay Beal; married Karen Laidlaw (an associate producer), October 23, 1993 (died March 16, 1998); children: Matthew. Addresses: Office: Reeltime Music Inc., 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 340, Beverly Hills, CA 90210-5206.; Agent: Winogradsky Company, 11240 Magnolia Blvd., Suite 104, North Hollywood, CA 91601.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer
Birth Details: January 20, 1947; Santa Monica, California, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Music Supervisor
Movies
Black Market Baby (also known as A Dangerous Love and Don't Steal My Baby), ABC, 1977
(Uncredited) A Shining Season, CBS, 1979
The Other Victim, 1981
(And orchestrator) Money on the Side, ABC, 1982
Lone Star Bar & Grill, Showtime, 1983
(Uncredited; and orchestrator) Shattered Innocence, CBS, 1988
Addicted to His Love (also known as Sisterhood), ABC, 1988
Doublecrossed, HBO, 1991
Television Work
Movies
Conductor, Swing Out, Sweet Land, NBC, 1970
Orchestrator, Velvet, ABC, 1984
Specials
Music director, Ed Sullivan's Armed Forces Tour, CBS, 1970
Conductor, The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World, 1971
Orchestrator, Lou Rawls: Soul on Ice!, 1975
Orchestrator, A Special Olivia Newton-John, ABC, 1976
Music director, The Captain & Tennille Songbook, ABC, 1979
Television Music Supervisor
Miniseries
(And orchestrator) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, ABC, 1979
(Uncredited) It (also known as Stephen King's It), ABC, 1990
Television Work
Series
Music arranger, Make Your Own Kind of Music, NBC, 1971
Orchestrator, $weepstake$ (also known as Sweepstakes), NBC,1979
Orchestrator of theme, Matt Houston, ABC, 1982
RECORDINGS
Album Producer
Produced Analyze This!, Opus Pocus; Apocalypse 'Nam, Cinerama; (with Dennis McCarthy) Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion Original Score; The Best of Stephen King, vol. 1, Cinerama; Carolyn Dennis:Skatetown USA; Civil War: The Sound and Fury, Opus Pocus; D-Force/Triumph, Opus Pocus; Disturbing Behavior: The Score by Mark Snow; (and performer and arranger) Dream Music II: Film Music of Tangerine Dream; The Funhouse: Original Score by John Beal; Futurama, Opus Pocus; (and performer and arranger) Evergreen: Music from the Films ofBarbra Streisand; (and performer and arranger) Heart of the Ocean: Film Music of James Horner, Sonic Images; Herotica: Themes for Heroes, Opus Pocus; The John Beal Trailer Project: Coming Soon!, Sonic Images; (and performer and arranger) Schwarzenegger: "I'll Be Back"; Semper Fi, OPM; (and arranger) The Snow Files (Music of Mark Snow),Sonic Images; Super Scary Monster Party, GNP/Crescendo; Terror in the Aisles, Opus Pocus; (and performer and arranger) Watch the Skies, Sonic Images.
WRITINGS
Television Music
Series
Happy Days (also known as Happy Days Again), ABC, 1974

Laverne & Shirley (also known as Laverne & Shirley & Friends), ABC, 1976
Eight Is Enough, ABC, 1977
(Additional music) Legends of the Super-Heroes, 1977
The Challenge of the SuperFriends (also known as SuperFriends III), ABC, 1978
(Additional music) The All-New Popeye Hour, CBS, 1978
Vega$, ABC, 1978
(Additional music) The Dukes of Hazzard, CBS, 1979
Whodunnit?, NBC, 1979
(Additional music) The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove, ABC, 1979
Goodtime Girls, ABC, 1980
(Additional music) Cassie & Co., NBC, 1982
Chicago Story, NBC, 1982
Legmen, NBC, 1984
(Additional music) Life Goes On, ABC, 1989
Specials
The Captain & Tennille Songbook, ABC, 1979
More Than Brothers, ABC, 1985
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump (documentary), HBO, 1994
Movies
(Additional music) The Death of Ocean View Park, ABC, 1979
Getting in Shape for the Main Event, 1979
Lights, Camera, Annie!, 1982
Shooting Stars, 1983
Littleshots, 1983
The Secret World of Spying, 1992
Making Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992
Making Gilbert Grape, 1993
(Additional music) Miracle on the 17th Green, CBS, 1999
Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (also known as Alien Furyand Countdown to Invasion), UPN, 2000
(Additional source music) My Sister's Keeper, CBS, 2002
Film Scores
(As John-Everett Beal) Zero to Sixty, Samuel Goldwyn, 1978
Circus Challenge, Hanna-Barbera, 1978
(Additional music and title song) Skatetown, U.S.A., Columbia, 1979
(Additional music) The Man with Bogart's Face (also known as Sam Marlowe, Private Eye), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980
(Additional music) Defiance, American International, 1980
The Funhouse (also known as Carnival of Terror), Universal,1981
(Additional music) Roar, Roadshow, 1981
(Additional music) Lookin' to Get Out, Paramount, 1982
(Uncredited; additional music) Under the Volcanao, Universal, 1984
Terror in the Aisles (also known as Time for Terror), Universal, 1984
(Additional music) The Stone Boy, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984
Killer Party, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1986
(Additional music) A Whisper to a Scream (also known as Love You to Death), Virgin Vision, 1989
(Additional music) Carpool, Warner Bros., 1996
Making Hamlet, 1996
(Additional music) Barney's Great Adventure (also known as Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie), PolyGram, 1998
A Journey in Faith, 1999
Return to Haight, Grade A, 2000
Junkies at the Gate, Grade A, 2001
Bay Boyz, Grade A, 2002
Cultivision (Collapsing Stars), 2002
Video Game Music
Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Activision, 1997

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic

John Beal Web Site, http://www.beal-net.com/john, November 11, 2002

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