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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Glass worked in his father's radio store and discovered music listening to the offbeat Western classical records customers didn't seem to want. He studied the violin and flute, and obtained early admission to the University of Chicago. After graduating in mathematics and philosophy... See full bio »

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Hide HideComposer (108 titles)
2012 Journey of Hanuman (video documentary) (post-production)
 
2013 The Perfect American (TV movie)
 
2012 Zejsc na ziemie (documentary short)
 
2012 O Apóstolo
 
2011 Portals (short)
 
2011 Londoness (documentary short)
 
2011 Elena
 
2011/II Rebirth (documentary)
 
2011 They Were There (documentary short)
 
2010 Kepler (TV movie)
 
2010 Icarus at the Edge of Time (short)
 
2010 Mr. Nice
 
2009 Transcendent Man (documentary)
 
2009 Les regrets
 
2008 What Are You Looking For? (documentary short)
 
2008 Objects and Memory (documentary)
 
2007 Repeat (short)
 
2007 Animals in Love (documentary)
 
2007 No Reservations
 
2007 Hard-Hearted
 
2007 Deferred (video documentary short)
 
2007 Little Things (short)
 
2006 A Broken Sole
 
2006/II Imaginary Friend
 
2006 Black Box: UFO Secrets (TV movie)
 
2006 White Shadows (video documentary)
 
2006 The Seeds (documentary short)
 
2006 Abused (documentary)
 
2006 The Illusionist
 
2006 A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (video documentary)
 
2006 El drama de la memoria (short)
 
2006 Roving Mars (documentary short)
 
2006 Tiger (documentary)
 
2005 The Giant Buddhas (documentary)
 
2005 Neverwas
 
2005 Faith's Corner
 
2005 Disparait, v. (short)
 
2005 La moustache (musical composition by)
 
2004 Undertow
 
2004 Secret Window: Secrets Revealed (video documentary short)
 
2004 Secret Window: From Book to Film (video documentary short)
 
2004 Secret Window: A Look Through It (video documentary short)
 
2004 The Origins of AIDS (documentary)
 
2004 Taking Lives
 
2004 Secret Window
 
2004 Aztec Legend (short)
 
2004 Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos (video documentary short)
 
2004 Clive Barker: Raising Hell (video documentary short)
 
2003 Pandemic: Facing AIDS (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2002 The Hours
 
2002 Naqoyqatsi (documentary)
 
2002 The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf (video short)
 
2002/I Passage (short)
 
2001 The Man in the Bath (short)
 
2001 L'anima in luce (documentary)
 
2001 Diaspora (short)
 
2000 Armonie dell'Estasi (documentary)
 
1999 Le corset (short)
 
1999 The Eden Myth
 
1999 Sin ceder (documentary short)
 
1998 Fast Track (short)
 
1997 Kundun
 
1997 Ballad of the Skeletons (short)
 
1997 Bent
 
1996 Départ immédiat (short)
 
1996 Absence Stronger Than Presence (documentary short)
 
1995 The Interview
 
1995 Journey to Enlightenment (TV documentary)
 
1995 Impetus Apaches (short)
 
1995 Evidence (documentary short)
 
1994 The Death of Molière (video)
 
1994 3000 scénarios contre un virus (TV series)
La chambre (1994)
 
1992 Candyman
 
1992 Anima Mundi (documentary short)
 
1992 Privé de vieillesse (short)
 
1992 The Arctic (TV series documentary)
 
1991 A Brief History of Time (documentary)
 
1991 A Walk Through Prospero's Library (TV documentary short)
 
1990 Mindwalk
 
1989 The Church
 
1988 The Thin Blue Line (documentary)
 
1988 Powaqqatsi (documentary)
 
1987 Monolithe (TV documentary short)
 
1987 Hamburger Hill
 
1986 Dead End Kids (documentary)
 
1986 The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (documentary)
 
1985 Empire City (documentary)
 
1984 High Wire (documentary short)
 
1983 Four American Composers (TV documentary)
 
1982 Koyaanisqatsi (documentary)
 
1971 End of the Art World (documentary short)
 
1970 Marco (documentary)
 
1968 Inquiring Nuns (documentary)
 
1931 Dracula (1999)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (40 titles)
2013 Stoker (writer: "Duet" / performer: "Duet")
 
2012 Dormant Beauty (writer: "Abdulmajid")
 
2011 Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A Film by Orson Welles (short) (writer: "Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra, Movement II")
 
2010 La Rafle (music: "Concerto for violin and orchestra")
 
2010 Catfish (documentary) (writer: "Truman Sleeps")
 
2010 Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (documentary) (writer: "Metamorphosis, No. 2" / performer: "Metamorphosis, No. 2")
 
2009 House M.D. (TV series)
Under My Skin (2009) (writer: "Company: II. -" - uncredited)
 
2009 Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain (documentary) (writer: "Knee Play No. 5")
 
2009 Watchmen (writer: "Protest" Act II, Scene 3, "Something She Has to Do", "Prophecies", "Pruit Igoe")
 
2009 Certainty (documentary) (writer: "The Wayside", "The Ropes")
 
2008 What Are You Looking For? (documentary short) (writer: "Metamorphosis 1" / performer: "Metamorphosis 1")
 
2008 Embrión (writer: "Aria")
 
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) ("Pruit Igoe")
 
2007 Repeat (short) (writer: "Metamorphosis 2 & 3")
 
2006 Absolute Wilson (documentary) ("The Civil Wars", "White Raven", "Einstein on the Beach")
 
2006 Counting Water (short) ("Knee Play No. 1")
 
2006 Scrubs (TV series)
My New God (2006) (writer: "Koyaanisqatsi" / performer: "Koyaanisqatsi")
 
2005 The Giant Buddhas (documentary) (writer: "Distraught", "Reting's Eyes", "Lord Chamberlain", "Escape to India")
 
2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (documentary) (writer: "Knee Play 1" / performer: "Knee Play 1")
 
2005 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) (writer: "Knee Play 1" / performer: "Knee Play 1")
 
2004/I Yes ("PARU RIVER")
 
2004 Declaring Genius (short) (writer: "Metamorphosis One" / performer: "Metamorphosis One")
 
2003 Rua Alguem 5555: My Father ("Xingu River")
 
2003 The Barbarian Invasions (writer: "Façade" / performer: "Façade")
 
2003 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (documentary) ("100,000 People" - uncredited, "Target Destruction" - uncredited, "Revolution in the Pentagon" - uncredited, "Low Evil" - uncredited, "Blind Moles" - uncredited, "Behind the Moon" - uncredited, "November 1, 1967" - uncredited, "IBM Punch Cards" - uncredited, "The War to End All Wars" - uncredited, "Statistical Control" - uncredited, "A New Weapon" - uncredited, "Damned if I Don't" - uncredited, "The Family" - uncredited, "Chengtu" - uncredited, "Dominoes" - uncredited, "67 Cities" - uncredited, "Rolling Thunder" - uncredited, "Invitation" - uncredited, "Success" - uncredited, "Data" - uncredited, "Across the World" - uncredited, "5 Weeks" - uncredited, "Norman Morrison" - uncredited, "Snowing" - uncredited, "Gulf of Tonkin" - uncredited)
 
2003 Six Feet Under (TV series)
Timing & Space (2003) ("1937: Saint Sebastian from Mishima", "1939: Grandmother and Kimitake from Mishima")
 
2002 The Hours ("Metamorphosis 2", "Satyagraha")
 
2002 How to Draw a Bunny (documentary) (writer: "String Quartet No. 3 Mishima: Mishima/Closing")
 
2001 The Pornographer (music: "OPENING")
 
2001 Aleph, lectures contades (TV series documentary)
Michel Tournier (2001) (writer: "Negro River", "Madeira River")
 
2000 Condo Painting (documentary) (writer: "Compassion In Exile" / performer: "Compassion In Exile")
 
1999 One Day in September (documentary) (writer: "Facades", "Closing", "Symphony No. 2", "Reting's Eyes" / performer: "Facades", "Closing", "Reting's Eyes")
 
1998 The Pear Tree (writer: "Mad Rush")
 
1998 Beware of My Love (writer: "Protest")
 
1998 The Truman Show (writer: "The Beginning", "Living Waters", "Anthem - Part 1", "Opening" / performer: "The Beginning", "Living Waters", "Anthem - Part 1", "Opening")
 
1991 A Grande Arte (writer: "The Photographer A Gentleman's Honor" / arranger: "The Photographer A Gentleman's Honor")
 
1991 'Merci la vie' (writer: "Three Truths", "Labyrinth", "What Time Is Grey", "City Walk", "Screens of Memory", "Façades", "Closing", "Metamorphosis Two" / performer: "Three Truths", "Labyrinth", "What Time Is Grey", "City Walk", "Screens of Memory", "Façades", "Closing", "Metamorphosis Two")
 
1989 The Church (writer: "Floe", "Civil Wars")
 
1983 Breathless (performer: "Openings" / as Phillip Glass)
 
1946 Beauty and the Beast ("La belle et la bête")
 
Show ShowMusic Department (19 titles)
2012 O Apóstolo (composer: theme music)
 
2012 Digital Dharma (documentary) (composer: additional music)
 
2011 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series) (music by - 1 episode)
Philip Glass: Satyagraha (2011) (music by)
 
2010 When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (documentary) (composer: theme music)
 
2010 The Colbert Report (TV series) (musician: piano - 1 episode)
Raj Patel (2010) (musician: piano)
 
2009 These Vagabond Shoes (short) (composer: theme music)
 
2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series) (composer: additional music - 1 episode)
Meet Market (2007) (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
2006/III Hope (short) (composer: stock music)
 
2006 UFO Files (TV series documentary) (composer: additional music - 1 episode)
Black Box UFO Secrets (2006) (composer: additional music)
 
Night Stalker (TV series) (composer: theme - 3 episodes, 2005-2006) (composer: theme music - 1 episode, 2005)
Timeless (2006) (composer: theme)
The Sea (2006) (composer: theme)
The Source (2005) (composer: theme music)
Malum (2005) (composer: theme)
 
2005 The Loss (short) (composer: additional music)
 
2004/I Yes (composer: song "Paru River" from "Aguas de Amazonia")
 
2001 Haj med luftpost (TV documentary) (composer: song "The Beginning")
 
1998 The Truman Show (composer: additional music)
 
1991 Closet Land (creative musical supervision)
 
1985 Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (documentary) (music by)
 
1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (music arranger)
 
1983 Satyagraha (TV movie) (music by)
 
1966 Chappaqua (music supervisor - as Phil Glass)
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
2007 No Reservations
Man at Bistro (uncredited)
 
2007 Live from Lincoln Center (TV series)
Composer / Performer
 
1998 The Truman Show
Keyboard Artist
 
Show ShowWriter (2 titles)
2011 The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (TV series)
Philip Glass: Satyagraha (2011) (libretto)
 
1983 Satyagraha (TV movie) (libretto)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1988 Powaqqatsi (documentary) (script consultant)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2011 Kobresia: Fragments (short) (inspirational thanks)
 
2010 My America (special thanks)
 
1999 Being John Malkovich (acknowledgment)
 
Show ShowSelf (42 titles)
2012 Under African Skies (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Music (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Invitation to World Literature (TV series documentary)
Himself
The Bhagavad Gita (2010) … Himself
 
2010 Dancing Across Borders (documentary)
Himself - Musician
 
2010 The Colbert Report (TV series)
Himself
Raj Patel (2010) … Himself
 
2009 P.O.V. (TV series documentary)
 
2009 BBC Proms (TV series)
Himself
Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (2009) … Himself
 
2008 What Are You Looking For? (documentary short)
Himself
 
2008 9am with David & Kim (TV series)
Himself - Guest
Episode dated 14 October 2008 (2008) … Himself - Guest
 
2008 The Dixie Hummingbirds: 80 Years Young (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 Patti Smith: Dream of Life (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Chuck Close (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Absolute Wilson (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Imagine (TV series)
Himself
Chuck Close, Close Up (2005) … Himself
 
2005 Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Kiki and Herb Reloaded
Himself
 
2005 The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Jonas at the Ocean (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 Essence of Life (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2000 Armonie dell'Estasi (documentary)
 
2000 A Brief History of Errol Morris (documentary)
 
1995-1999 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul (1995) … Himself
 
1997 Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Sessions at West 54th (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode #1.9 (1997) … Himself
 
1992 The Making of 'A Brief History of Time' (TV documentary short)
Himself - Composer
 
1990 John Cage: Man and Myth (video documentary)
Himself
 
1986 VH1 New Visions (TV series)
Himself - Guest Host (1986-1988)
 
1986 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Himself - Musical Guest
George Wendt and Francis Ford Coppola/Philip Glass (1986) … Himself - Musical Guest
 
1986 The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (documentary)
 
1983 Four American Composers (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV series)
 

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Scored a TV commercial for American Express, with Robert De Niro, directed by Martin Scorsese (2004). See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 5 Interviews  | 2 Articles  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Official Sites:

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Alternate Names:

Phil Glass

Height:

5' 8½" (1.74 m)
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Personal Quote:

[on 'The Perfect American', his opera about Walt Disney] The unique thing about American culture is that high and popular culture are closely related. Disney understood that. What makes this opera interesting is that it shows the best of American character - and some of the worst. See more »

Trivia:

Biography and bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pp. 169-180. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. See more »

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The Last Romantic See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius