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Filmography

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2000 Angels in the Infield (TV movie)
 
1999 View Askew's Look Back at 'Mallrats' (video documentary short) (musical score)
 
1998 BASEketball (as James Ira Newborn)
 
1997 Bad Manners
 
1996 The Late Shift (TV movie)
 
1995 Mallrats
 
1995 The Jerky Boys
 
1992 Innocent Blood
 
1992 Tales from the Crypt (TV series)
This'll Kill Ya (1992)
 
1992 Brain Donors
 
1990/I My Blue Heaven
 
1990 Short Time
 
1989 Cast the First Stone (TV movie)
 
1989 Uncle Buck
 
1988 Caddyshack II
 
1987 Planes, Trains & Automobiles (music score)
 
1987 Dragnet
 
1986 Wise Guys
 
1985 Weird Science
 
1985 Into the Night
 
1984 Sixteen Candles
 
1981 SCTV Network (TV series)
 
1981 All Night Long (music composed by)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (10 titles)
1997 The Pest (music consultant)
 
1995 Mallrats (orchestration)
 
1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (conductor, orchestrator)
 
1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (orchestrator)
 
1983 Doctor Detroit (musical numbers supervisor)
 
1980 The Blues Brothers (conductor, music supervisor)
 
1980 The Toni Tennille Show (TV series) (musical director)
 
1978 American Hot Wax (arranger and conductor)
 
1976 Mary's Incredible Dream (TV movie) (musical arrangement)
 
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1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (writer: "The Food Song" / producer: "This Could Be the Start of Something", "The Food Song")
 
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (writer: "DANCE FOR NORMAN" / performer: "DANCE FOR NORMAN")
 
1991 Problem Child 2 (writer: "Turtle Death" / performer: "Turtle Death")
 
1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (music: "I GUESS I'M JUST SCREWED")
 
1990 Another 48 Hrs. ("THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN")
 
1987 The Secret of My Succe$s (writer: "GEEK BOOGIE" / performer: "GEEK BOOGIE")
 
1985 Into the Night (writer: "INTO THE NIGHT", "MY LUCILLE")
 
1984 Sixteen Candles (music: "Geek Boogie" Instrumental)
 
1982 48 Hrs. (music: "LOVE SONGS ARE FOR CRAZIES" / "TORCHY'S BOOGIE")
 
Show ShowActor (7 titles)
2000 Ivansxtc
Rabbi No. 2
 
1994 Junior
Lyndon Executive
 
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon
Fred (segment "Silly Pate")
 
1980 Xanadu
40's Band Leader
 
1978 American Hot Wax
Band Leader (uncredited)
 
1975 Manhattan Transfer (TV series)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1985 B.B. King: Into the Night (video documentary short)
Himself
 

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Alternate Names:

James Ira Newborn
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Personal Quote:

Billy took me over to this... little white piano that had eight thousand cigarette burns on the keys, and a whole bunch of keys didn't work at all... Billy told me he played around those keys. And I saw him playing and he didn't just skip the keys, he played around them! And I said 'oh boy...'. See more »

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