James Dooley (composer)

James Michael "Jim" Dooley (born August 22, 1976) is an American film score composer.

James Dooley
Background information
Birth name	James Michael Dooley
Also known as	Jim Dooley
Born	(1976-08-22) August 22, 1976 (age 48) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Composer
Website	jimdooley.com

Biography

Dooley was born in New York City and studied music at New York University, majoring in music composition. After finishing the university he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied music with prolific film score composers Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. In 1999, Dooley started working for Hans Zimmer as his chief technical assistant.^[1] He works in Santa Monica in Zimmer's film music studio Remote Control Productions (formerly Media Ventures). He composed, arranged, and orchestrated music for films like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Da Vinci Code. He also composed music for inFAMOUS 2, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and the Epic Mickey series and has collaborated with Celldweller and Tarja Turunen. He released his debut album, Veiled Nation, in 2013.

Work

Film

Year	Title	Director(s)	Notes
1999	The Good Man's Sin	Peter Sullivan	Short film
2000	Bit Players	Andy Berman	Short film,
	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	Assistant to Hans Zimmer
	Mission: Impossible II	John Woo
	An Everlasting Piece	Barry Levinson
2001	Pearl Harbor	Michael Bay
	Riding in Cars with Boys	Penny Marshall
	Hannibal	Ridley Scott	Additional music, with Hans Zimmer
	Black Hawk Down
	The Clayfather	Ryan Nellis & Jose Solis
2002	Untitled: 003-Embryo	Mike Goedecke	Short film,
	Papal Cab	Kevin Susman
	The Ring	Gore Verbinski	Additional music, with Hans Zimmer
	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook	Additional arrangements
	The Time Machine	Simon Wells
2003	Agua Dulce	Edgar Pablos	Short
	Come Lovely	Jake Davis
	Things Fall Apart	Yaniv Raz
	Life After War	Brian Knappenberger	Documentary
	Something's Gotta Give	Nancy Meyers	Additional music
	Matchstick Men	Ridley Scott
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski
	Tears of the Sun	Antoine Fuqua
2004	Thunderbirds	Jonathan Frakes
	King Arthur	Antoine Fuqua
	Frenching	Kellie Martin	Short film
2005	The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper	Gary Trousdale
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Nick Park and Steve Box	Additional music
	Madagascar	Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
	The Amityville Horror	Andrew Douglas
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Ron Howard
	First Flight	Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson	Short film
	Impy's Island	Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe
	When a Stranger Calls	Simon West
2007	Daddy Day Camp	Fred Savage
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman	Additional music
	Electroland	Gabriel London	Documentary short
	The Mars Underground	Scott Gill	Documentary,
	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Gore Verbinski	Additional arrangements
	Young@Heart	Stephen Walker	Documentary, wrote and performed "Crimson Joy"
2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath	Additional music
	Impy's Island 2	Reinhard Klooss & Holger Tappe
	Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation	James Ryan	Video
	The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning	Peggy Holmes
2009	Obsessed	Steve Shill
2011	Son of Mourning	Yaniv Raz
	The Forger	Lawrence Roeck
2012	Slumber Party Slaughter	Rebekah Chaney
	The Longest Daycare	David Silverman	Short, additional music
	Buzkashi Boys	Sam French	Short
2013	Barbie in the Pink Shoes	Owen Hurley	Video
2014	10 Cent Pistol	Michael C. Martin
	Barbie: The Pearl Princess	Ezekiel Norton	Video
	The Simpsons Take the Bowl	David Silverman and Mike Anderson
2015	Toxin	Jason Dudek
2016	Fifty Shades of Black	Michael Tiddes
	Satanic	Jeffrey G. Hunt
2017	Heartthrob	Chris Sivertson
2019	Secret Obsession	Peter Sullivan
2020	Playdate with Destiny	David Silverman	Short
TBA	Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets	Yaniv Raz	Post-production

TV

Year	Title	Notes
2001	Area 52	TV movie
2002	ESPN – "Citation"
	ESPN – "Richard Flowers"
	Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr	TV movie documentary
2003	Dean Kamen
	The Louisiana Purchase	TV movie
	Frontline/World	TV series documentary, 2 episodes
	Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s	TV movie documentary
	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	1 episode
2003–2004	Skin	Mini-series
2004	Life on Liberty Street	TV movie
	Hollywood Mom's Mystery
2005	Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
	Detective
	Ordinary Miracles
	The Contender
2006	What About Brian	2 episodes
2007–2009	Pushing Daisies
2009	Crisis: New York Under Water	TV movie
2010	Neighbors from Hell
2011	Wilfred
	Franklin & Bash	2 episodes
	Poe	TV movie
2012	Best Friends Forever
	Mockingbird Lane	TV special
	Emily Owens M.D.	3 episodes
2013–2014	Doctor Who Online Adventures	TV series short, 3 episodes
2013	Jinxed	TV movie
	Murder in Manhattan
2014	Deliverance Creek
	Dead Boss
2015	Barbie in Princess Power
	Splitting Adam
	Bad Blood
2017	A Midsummer's Nightmare
2018	A Tale of Two Corey's
2014–2018	The Last Ship
2018–2019	A Series of Unfortunate Events
2019	Kim Possible	TV movie

Video games

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Dead to Rights II
	SOCOM 3 U.S. Navy SEALs
	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo
2006	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault
	SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2
2007	The Simpsons Game	With Hans Zimmer, Chris Lennertz and Tim Wynn
	Def Jam: Icon	Technical staff
	Bee Movie Game	Cinematic score
2009	Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
	Infamous
	Nerf N-Strike
	Monsters vs. Aliens
2010	Epic Mickey
	Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
2011	Infamous 2	With Bryan Mantia, Melissa Reese, Galactic and Jonathan Mayer
2012	Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two	With Mike Himelstein
	Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion	With Sean Beeson
2013	BioShock Infinite	Special thanks
	Knack
2014	Disney Infinity – Marvel Super Heroes
2015	Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition – Starter Pack

Other

Title	Notes
The Simpsons Ride	Universal Studios Theme Park Attraction
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: Legends	National tour

Awards

Year	Award	Recipient
2008	Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series	Pushing Daisies: Pigeon[2]
2008	Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best TV Composer	Pushing Daisies Season 1
2009	ASCAP Award for Top-Grossing Film	Obsessed[3]
2009	G.A.N.G. Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album	inFamous[4]