Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York City, New York) is an American film composer (not to be confused with football player Brad Friedel). A popular and progressive composer in the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers, before almost disappearing from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s. He began his career in film in the late 1970s, … Wikipedia
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His most famous piece is the The Terminator (1984) theme tune. Director Jonathan Kaplan, who previously had hired Fiedel to score his film Girls of the White Orchid (1983) (TV), wanted to work with Fiedel again on his film, The Accused (1988), starring Jo www.imdb.com/name/nm0006075/
Whether you agree with Fiedel's bleak style and harsh musical accompaniment for the movie is an entirely different affair. Wherever you fall in that debate, it's widely agreed upon that Fiedel seemed more comfortable in this environment that he did in th www.filmtracks.com/titles/terminator2.html
