Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American film composer and musician born in Paterson, New Jersey.
Beginning as a pianist (and recording a few albums in the process), Edelman's first film score was the 1973 film Executive Action. He didn't go into film scoring full-time until the 1980's, when he scored for TV movies for Henry Winkler (Fonzie from Happy Days) and series from his production company (Ryan's Four
and MacGyver). Since then, he's been known as a composer who is able to tackle multiple genres (mostly action and comedy but he's done a few dramas as well) and has a few cases of Awesome Music to his name.
You've probably heard his music in plenty of movie trailers and commercials.
Films and television shows scored by Edelman include:
- MacGyver (1985-92) - theme and some episode scores
- The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
- Twins (1988) - with Georges Delerue
- Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
- Ghostbusters II (1989)
- Quick Change (1990) - additional music by Howard Shore
- Come See The Paradise (1990) (the source of this staple of trailers)
- Kindergarten Cop (1990)
- Drop Dead Fred (1991)
- Eyes of an Angel (1991)
- My Cousin Vinny (1992)
- Beethoven and its first sequel (1992, 1993)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - with Trevor Jones
- The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
- Gettysburg (1993)
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993) - theme (he also scored the two-hour pilot)
- Angels in the Outfield (1994)
- The Mask and Son of the Mask (1994, 2005)
- Billy Madison (1995)
- While You Were Sleeping (1995)
- Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures Of Pecos Bill (1995)
- The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
- The Big Green (1995)
- Dragonheart (1996)
- Daylight (1996)
- The Quest (1996)
- Anaconda (1997)
- Gone Fishin' (1997)
- Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
- Ed TV (1999)
- The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
- The Skulls (2000)
- Shanghai Noon and its sequel (2000, 2003)
- Osmosis Jones (2001)
- Black Knight (2001)
- xXx (2002)
- Gods and Generals (2003) - with John Frizzell
- Underdog (2007)
- Balls of Fury (2007)
- 27 Dresses (2008)
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) - additional music by John Debney
- Leap Year (2010)
- The Boy Next Door (2015) - with Nathan Barr
- Backdraft 2 (2019)
