- Born
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Bear McCreary is a degreed graduate of the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music (in 'Composition and Recording Arts'). Bear McCreary was one of a small and select group of proteges of the late, many-honored film composer Elmer Bernstein. Although he is now firmly in the mainstream of film composition, many of McCreary's earliest soundtrack-music compositions were for independent motion picture productions.- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani
- SpouseRaya Yarbrough(August 31, 2010 - present) (1 child)
- ParentsJay McCrearyLaura Kalpakian
- Worked for and studied with film music legend Elmer Bernstein for nearly a decade, including reconstructing and re-orchestrating his long-lost score for Kings of the Sun (1963) from the original pencil manuscripts.
- Son of Laura Kalpakian.
- His maternal grandmother was of Armenian descent.
- Brother of Brendan McKian.
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