Charles Gross

  • Charles Gross - Country [Windham Hill Records  WH-1039] (1984)

Biography

Charles ''Charlie'' Gross is an American Film and TV composer, living in New York City.

Gross was educated at Harvard University (BA), the New England Conservatory and Mills College (teaching fellowship) and a student of Darius Milhaud. He arranged for the West Point Band for three years, and served in the US Army. Later he became a writer for industrial films and cartoons.

He wrote original music for the 1976 Broadway production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.

His film and television scores included Valdez Is Coming (1971), The Tenth Level (1976), Blue Sunshine (1978), The Dain Curse (1978), Heartland (1979), My Body, My Child (1982), Terrible Joe Moran (1984), Country (1984), The Burning Bed (1984), The Night They Saved Christmas (1984), Arthur the King (1985), Sweet Dreams (1985), Between Two Women (1986) , Punchline (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), Another You (1991), A Family Thing (1996) and Fakin' Da Funk (1997).