Person · Composer · Active since 1975
Ira Newborn
b. 1949, New York City
American composer, born in New York City. Wrote the music for 22 films on this site, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
Newborn wrote two songs performed by B.B. King for the Into the Night soundtrack: "My Lucille" and "Into the Night."
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He co-wrote "I Guess I'm Just Screwed" for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear with David Zucker and Robert LoCash.
Ira Newborn · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Regulars
Films in this guide
Best known
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994composer
- The Blues Brothers 1980composer
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986composer
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988composer
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987composer
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult 1994composer
1980s
- The Blues Brothers (1980)composer
- All Night Long (1981)composer
- Sixteen Candles (1984)composer
- Into the Night (1985)composer
- Weird Science (1985)composer
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)composer
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)composer
- Dragnet (1987)composer
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)composer
- Caddyshack II (1988)composer
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)composer
- Collision Course (1989)composer
- Uncle Buck (1989)composer
1990s
- My Blue Heaven (1990)composer
- Short Time (1990)composer
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)composer
- Innocent Blood (1992)composer
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)composer
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)composer
- Mallrats (1995)composer
- High School High (1996)composer
- BASEketball (1998)composer