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Michael Josephs(II)

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Michael Josephs
The work of the award-winning American composer Michael Josephs includes concert music, film scoring, and solo work.

Drawing from a multitude of styles and genres, Josephs' music is often a third unspoken voice in a film, an equal partner with picture and dialog.

Recent projects include scores for Wild Kingdom, National Geographic, HBO, BBC, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, The History Channel, and many others.

Michael received a National Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for his score for the series Thoroughbred. He has received numerous other awards.

Michael was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He spent his formative musical years in Detroit, Michigan.
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 nomination total

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    Known for

    Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (2002)
    Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
    8.0
    TV Series
    • Composer
    Dateline: Saigon (2016)
    Dateline: Saigon
    9.0
    • Composer
    • 2016
    Brian Thompson, Brian Thomas Smith, Kassandra Clementi, and Elle Evans in Big Muddy (2018)
    Big Muddy
    5.8
    • Composer
    • 2018
    Newseum 4D Experience (2008)
    Newseum 4D Experience
    7.6
    Short
    • Composer
    • 2008

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    Composer



    • The New Frontier
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Brian Thompson, Brian Thomas Smith, Kassandra Clementi, and Elle Evans in Big Muddy (2018)
      Big Muddy
      5.8
      • Composer
      • 2018
    • PBS News Hour (1975)
      PBS News Hour
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Composer (1975-)
      • 2000–2017
    • Dateline: Saigon (2016)
      Dateline: Saigon
      9.0
      • Composer
      • 2016
    • Southeast 67 (2015)
      Southeast 67
      7.9
      • Composer
      • 2015
    • Full Body Whisper
      • Composer
      • 2013
    • “No serious writer of the twentieth century has more thoroughly influenced the public imagination than Graham Greene.” -Time magazine
      Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
      7.5
      • Composer
      • 2013
    • Between Western and California (2012)
      Between Western and California
      • Composer
      • 2012
    • Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (2002)
      Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2011
    • Extraordinary Fidelity
      8.8
      • Composer
      • 2011
    • Don LaFontaine and John Walsh in America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988)
      America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2010
    • America at Risk (2010)
      America at Risk
      4.1
      Video
      • Composer (original music by)
      • 2010
    • Nine Days That Changed the World (2010)
      Nine Days That Changed the World
      7.2
      • Composer
      • 2010
    • Generation Zero (2010)
      Generation Zero
      3.3
      • Composer (music by)
      • 2010
    • Expedition Great White (2009)
      Expedition Great White
      8.4
      TV Movie
      • Composer (uncredited)
      • 2009

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    • Dateline: Saigon (2016)
      Dateline: Saigon
      9.0
      • composer: theme music
      • 2016
    • Andrew Zimmern in Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (2006)
      Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
      7.7
      TV Series
      • theme music
      • 2011
    • Thoroughbred (2001)
      Thoroughbred
      TV Series
      • composer: title music
      • 2001

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