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Joe Kraemer(I)

  • Composer
  • Music Department
  • Actor
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Joe Kraemer at an event for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
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Joe Kraemer has been scoring films since the age of 15, when he composed the soundtrack for his high school classmate's The Chiming Hour, a feature-length indie shot on Super 8 in 1986. This lead to three career-defining projects for Kraemer: The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

Kraemer attended the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film composition. In the following years, Kraemer carved out an eclectic career scoring various genres. He has written music for over 100 films, with about 40 of those just for the Hallmark Channel/Larry Levinson Productions. Furthermore, he has scored for episodic television, television movies, documentaries, and short films, including his scores for John Putch's The Poseidon Adventure and A Time To Remember, as well as the Mystery Woman series, and westerns such as Hard Ground, Lone Rider, and The Trail To Hope Rose.

Kraemer frequently does Masterclasses in composition for media for various colleges and organizations, including Columbia College Chicago, Media Sound Hamburg, and the Hollywood Music Workshop.
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  • Awards
    • 3 wins & 1 nomination

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Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
7.4
  • Composer
  • 2015
Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012)
Jack Reacher
7.0
  • Composer
  • 2012
Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis, James Caan, Benicio Del Toro, and Taye Diggs in The Way of the Gun (2000)
The Way of the Gun
6.6
  • Composer
  • 2000
Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Vanessa Angel in Kingpin (1996)
Kingpin
6.9
  • Music Department
  • 1996

Credits

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Composer

  • T-minus
    • Composer
    • Completed
    • Short
    • 2023
  • Fluorescent Beast
    • Composer
    • Completed
  • Scapegoat
    • Composer
    • Post-production
  • Beyond the Dark (2022)
    Beyond the Dark
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Stephen Lang in Old Man (2022)
    Old Man
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • 88 (2022)
    88
    • Composer
    • 2022
  • Zac David Taylor, Giselle Marie, and Aaron G. Hale in Sclera Absentia (2022)
    Sclera Absentia
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • The Best Man's Privilege (2022)
    The Best Man's Privilege
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • The middle ages
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Sacha Dhawan, Paterson Joseph, and Genevieve Gaunt in First Action Bureau (2020)
    First Action Bureau
    • Composer
    • Podcast Series
    • 2020
  • Emily and the Magical Journey (2020)
    Emily and the Magical Journey
    • Composer
    • 2020
  • Elisabeth Larena and Kimberley Tell in Eve's Comet (2020)
    Eve's Comet
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • Final Stare (2020)
    Final Stare
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond (2020)
    The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond
    • Composer
    • Video
    • 2020
  • The Wound
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Pandora (2019)
    Pandora
    • composer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Kindred Spirits (2019)
    Kindred Spirits
    • Composer
    • 2019
  • Cruel Hearts (2018)
    Cruel Hearts
    • Composer
    • 2018

Music Department

  • Headroom 3 (2019)
    Headroom 3
    • additional music
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    • conductor
    • 2015
  • Sweethearts of the Gridiron (2015)
    Sweethearts of the Gridiron
    • composer: theme music
    • 2015
  • Jacko's Wild Ride
    • composer: theme music (2012)
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012)
    Jack Reacher
    • conductor
    • 2012
  • The Perfect Teacher (2010)
    The Perfect Teacher
    • composer: theme music
    • TV Movie
    • 2010
  • Burt Reynolds, Bruce Dern, Amy Jo Johnson, and Seth Peterson in Hard Ground (2003)
    Hard Ground
    • music arranger
    • music producer
    • TV Movie
    • 2003
  • The Circle
    • composer: additional music
    • Short
    • 2001
  • Ryan Phillippe, Juliette Lewis, James Caan, Benicio Del Toro, and Taye Diggs in The Way of the Gun (2000)
    The Way of the Gun
    • conductor
    • 2000
  • We Married Margo (2000)
    We Married Margo
    • composer: additional music
    • 2000
  • Undressed (1999)
    Undressed
    • composer: contributing composer
    • TV Series
    • 1999
  • Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Vanessa Angel in Kingpin (1996)
    Kingpin
    • music editor
    • 1996
  • Land's End (1995)
    Land's End
    • composer: source music
    • TV Series
    • 1995

Actor

  • Aggregate (2017)
    Aggregate
    • Pete
    • 2017
  • Tanit Phoenix in Femme Fatales (2011)
    Femme Fatales
    • Officer Taylor
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • American Decaf (2011)
    American Decaf
    • Joe
    • 2011
  • Chasm
    • Kraditch
    • Short
    • 2010
  • Monday (2006)
    Monday
    • The Loser
    • 2006
  • Chi Girl (1999)
    Chi Girl
    • Randy (voice)
    • 1999
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From Silence to Sound
So Right So Smart
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So Right So Smart

Personal details

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      Marra KraemerDecember 28, 2012 - present (2 children)

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    While in junior high, he met filmmaker Scott Storm, who cast him in a Super 8 film project for which he also wrote the music. He later attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. Through Storm, he later met Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie and these meetings led to him getting work as a film music editor, then eventually as a film music composer.

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