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Michel Colombier is a Actor and Sound French born on 23 may 1939 at Lyon (France)

Michel Colombier

Michel Colombier
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Nationality France
Birth 23 may 1939 at Lyon (France)
Death 14 november 2004 (at 65 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 – November 14, 2004) was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor.

He wrote the scores of several motion pictures and TV productions. He also wrote chamber music and ballets. With composer Pierre Henry, he wrote music for Messe pour le temps présent, a piece created by choreographer Maurice Béjart in 1967.

He was married to Dana Colombier with whom he had two children. He is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Biography

Initié au piano par son père à 6 ans, il entre au conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris en 1959 et le quitte deux ans plus tard.

Repéré par Michel Magne qui l'engage comme pianiste et arrangeur, il devient, peu après, à 22 ans, directeur musical des Disques Barclay ; il arrange le premier album anglophone de Charles Aznavour, produit par Quincy Jones.

Il a notamment travaillé avec Pierre Henry (Messe pour le temps présent, 1967), Serge Gainsbourg (Bonnie and Clyde, Anna, Requiem pour un con, Élisa), Pascal Danel (divers 45 tours dans les années 1960), Barbara (album L'Aigle noir, 1970), Michel Polnareff (albums Coucou me revoilou et Ménage à trois), Brigitte Fontaine (Maman j'ai peur), Claude Nougaro (album Pacifique, 1988), Mary-Christine (divers 45 tours 1964-65).

Au début des années 1970, il écrit l'indicatif de la chaîne Antenne 2 qui est probablement son œuvre la plus connue. Inspiré du concerto pour hautbois en ré mineur d'Alessandro Marcello, ce titre a servi, de 1975 à 1983, de musique au premier générique d'ouverture et de fermeture d'antenne de la chaîne de télévision Antenne 2 - un film d'animation de 80 secondes de Jean-Michel Folon, représentant des « bonshommes volants », apparaissant, puis disparaissant dans un ciel étoilé. Michel Colombier intitula cette musique Emmanuel en souvenir de son fils mort tout enfant.

En 1977, il écrit les arrangements de l'album Even in the Quietest Moments... de Supertramp.

En 2003, il arrange les cordes sur l'album American Life de Madonna. Il avait auparavant arrangé les cordes pour le titre et single Don't Tell Me, extrait de l'album Music, en 2000.

Il collabore avec le groupe Air pour l'album, Talkie Walkie, en 2004.

Best films

The Golden Child (1986)
(Orchestrator)
Ruthless People (1986)
(Music)
Purple Rain (1984)
(Original Music Composer)
White Nights (1985)
(Original Music Composer)
Major League II (1994)
(Original Music Composer)
Élisa (1995)
(Music)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michel Colombier (75 films)

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Actor

A Room in Town, 1h32
Directed by Jacques Demy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, Musical films
Actors Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Fabienne Guyon, Anna Gaylor
Roles un ouvrier (voix chantée)
Rating67% 3.3902053.3902053.3902053.3902053.390205
The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Young shipyard worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Madame Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class, born a baroness. His girlfriend Violette Pelletier, who works in a shop and lives with her mother, wants to get married but he is unwilling, partly because they have no money and nowhere to live.

Sound

Deacons for Defense, 1h35
Directed by Bill Duke
Genres Drama
Actors Forest Whitaker, Christopher Britton, Ossie Davis, Jonathan Silverman, Mpho Koaho, Melanie Nicholls-King
Roles Music
Rating69% 3.485633.485633.485633.485633.48563
In 1965 Louisiana, war veteran Marcus (Forest Whitaker) works in the town's mill for meager wages, and must endure the ongoing humiliation meted out by his white supervisors. Encouraged by an idealistic white Northerner (Jonathan Silverman), his daughter becomes a civil rights activist. When his daughter is abused at a nonviolent demonstration, Marcus is pushed too far. Marcus organizes the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an all-black defense group dedicated to patrolling the black section of town and protecting its residents from the aspects of "white backlash".
Swept Away
Swept Away (2002)
, 1h29
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Beattie
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating36% 1.809871.809871.809871.809871.80987
Amber Leighton is 40: beautiful, rich, spoiled, foul-mouthed and arrogant beyond measure. Nothing makes this woman happy, including her wealthy but passive husband, Tony, a pharmaceutical kingpin.
Innocents
Innocents (2000)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Keith David, Connie Nielsen, Mia Kirshner, Frank Langella, Joseph Culp
Roles Music
Rating47% 2.364542.364542.364542.364542.36454
Un violoncelliste tombe sous le charme d'une infirmière, dont l'équilibre psychologique semble perturbé... celui de sa sœur n'est pas pour arranger les choses ; qui plus est, les routes des États-Unis ne sont pas des plus sûres...
Screwed
Screwed (2000)
, 1h21
Directed by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Buddy films
Actors Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Danny DeVito, Elaine Stritch, Sarah Silverman, Daniel Benzali
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56% 2.800472.800472.800472.800472.80047
Willard (Norm Macdonald) is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who works for a mean-spirited pie heiress named Mrs. Crock (Elaine Stritch), just as his father did before him. All Willard wants for Christmas is a new uniform, as the one he currently wears is the one his father was buried in, but Crock gives him a cheap pair of cuff links and a pie instead, while lavishing expensive gifts on her business partner Chip Oswald (Sherman Hemsley) and her prized dog Muffin. Finally fed up with being mistreated, Willard and his best friend, local chicken restaurant owner Rusty (Dave Chappelle), concoct a scheme to kidnap the dog and hold it for a $1,000,000 ransom. Muffin attacks him, leaving a great deal of destruction and Willard's blood at the scene, and the plan fails when the dog later escapes.
Trippin'
Trippin' (1999)
, 1h34
Directed by David Raynr
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Deon Richmond, Countess Vaughn, Maia Campbell, Donald Faison, Guy Torry, Bill Henderson
Roles Music
Rating53% 2.6542952.6542952.6542952.6542952.654295
Greg (Deon Richmond) is nearing the end of his high school days as graduation slowly approaches. He is also anxiously awaiting prom and has the hopes of going with Cinny (Maia Campbell), the school's local beauty. Along with these wants, Greg is also an avid daydreamer and daydreams (trippin') over everything. Most of his "trips" are reversals of real world events, such as visualizing himself as a military commando when confronted by bullies, or as a super genius when in fact he struggles academically. Since he is about to graduate his mother and a teacher encourage him to apply for college. He finally realizes asking for help with the college applications is a great way for him to get in good with Cinny. So they slowly start a friendship but Greg wants it to blossom into a romance so he begins to lie about things. Things go smoothly and are believable until they fall apart one day. Afterward, Greg realizes he needs to stop daydreaming ("trippin'") and focus.
Sabrina, Down Under, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film
Actors Melissa Joan Hart, Tara Strong, Scott Michaelson, Lindsay Sloane, Nick Bakay, Peter O'Brien
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.941192.941192.941192.941192.94119
Sabrina travels to Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Gwen, a fellow witch from England, for a week-long vacation where they try to help protect a hidden mermaid colony whose habitat is threatened by ocean pollution, and by local marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin, who is determined to find the colony as his claim to fame. While Sabrina finds a friendship with Barnaby, a "merman" from the mermaid colony, Salem the cat finds a possible romance with another witch-turned-into-a-cat named Hilary, but finds Sabrina's problems interfering with his plans. In order to prevent Julian from launching a search for the mermaid colony, she casts a spell to create a storm to keep him in port, which succeeds except that a lightning bolt knocks Sabrina unconscious, and when she comes to she learns she has lost her powers, at least temporarily.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 2h4
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan
Roles Music
Rating57% 2.8515952.8515952.8515952.8515952.851595
Stella Payne is a very successful 40-year-old stockbroker raising her son, Quincy, and living in Marin County, California, who is persuaded by her New York friend Delilah Abraham to take a well-deserved, first-class vacation to Montego Bay, Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a handsome young islander, Winston Shakespeare, who is twenty years younger. His pursuit of her turns into a blossoming romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.
Woo
Woo (1998)
, 1h24
Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Dave Chappelle, Paula Jai Parker, LL Cool J, Michael Ralph
Roles Music
Rating42% 2.1090252.1090252.1090252.1090252.109025
Woo (Smith) is an extroverted woman living in New York City, and she has a notorious knack for turning men into mush. When Woo's psychic friend Celestrial (Girlina) predicts that the man of her dreams is about to enter her life, Woo doesn't believe it is true. Celestrial, however, is convinced that Woo is destined to meet a tall, debonair Virgo. Woo's cousin Claudette (Paula Jai Parker) and Claudette's boyfriend Lenny (Dave Chappelle) plan to spend the night together but find themselves entertaining Woo instead. Lenny begs his best friend Tim Jackson (Davidson) to take Woo out - even though shy, strait-laced law clerk Tim is the polar opposite of the sassy and brassy Woo. That same night, Lenny and Claudette's night goes wrong when his sick obsession with chicken drives her to be forced to dress up as a sexy but awkward "chicken ho" (he makes her cluck and walk like a chicken) but she is allergic to feathers.
Meet Wally Sparks, 1h45
Directed by Peter Baldwin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Michael Weatherly, Cindy Williams, Alan Rachins, Burt Reynolds
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating51% 2.599672.599672.599672.599672.59967
Wally Sparks (Rodney Dangerfield) is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style TV talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem gentle by comparison. His show has become so foul that he's alienated his not-especially-discriminating viewers, and his ratings are taking a nosedive.
Buried Alive II, 1h37
Directed by Tim Matheson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tim Matheson, Tracey Needham, Tommy Hinkley, Mike Pniewski
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53% 2.662062.662062.662062.662062.66206
The film takes place ten years later after the events of the first film. Clint Goodman, the man whose wife, Joanna and lover,
Murder in My Mind, 1h28
Directed by Robert Iscove
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Actors Nicollette Sheridan, Peter Coyote, Stacy Keach, Peter Outerbridge, Ian Tracey, Peter Flemming
Roles Music
Rating49% 2.4816052.4816052.4816052.4816052.481605
When a serial killer preys on blondes, a blonde federal law enforcement officer investigating the case decides to take a drastic step. Her husband, a scientist experimenting only on lab animals, transplants brain cells from a comatose patient into the agent's brain, hoping it will stimulate memories that will help her find the killer.
Scattering Dad
Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg
Roles Music
Rating52% 2.606862.606862.606862.606862.60686
An agorophobic woman who hasn't left her home in 20 years receives a visit from the spirit of her deceased husband who reminds her of a promise she made to scatter his ashes at his favorite vacation spot. With her daughters unavailable, she sets off to fulfill the promise herself.
Mary & Tim
Mary & Tim (1996)
, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Candice Bergen, Tom McCarthy, Kelli Williams, Richard Kiley, Louise Latham, Shirley Knight
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.582813.582813.582813.582813.58281