Steve Rucker (composer)

This article is about the television composer. For the Bee Gees drummer, see Steve Rucker.

Stephen Donald Rucker (born June 27, 1949) is an American composer. Rucker studied piano with M. Mendelsohn of the Paris Conservatory. He has composed and conducted for the London Symphony Orchestra in the animated film, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, with Thomas Chase. He has worked on film scores for animated series including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls,^[1] and Jonny Quest. He also composed the score for another Cartoon Network series, Codename: Kids Next Door, with Thomas Chase. Rucker and Chase also provided musical score for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Steve Rucker
Born	(1949-06-27) June 27, 1949 (age 75) Glendale, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Composer
Website	Official website

He was awarded Best Original Score for the Civil War drama Josephine at the 2016 Richmond International Film Festival. He composed film trailer cues including work for Goldwing (1978) Coco, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Hidden Figures, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and Designated Survivor (ABC). He also continues to contribute for reality TV including Survivor and The Dog Whisperer.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1984	Mister T
1985	Adventures of the Gummi Bears
	The Wuzzles
1987	Bionic Six
	Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
1988-1990	Alvin and the Chipmunks
1989	Hard Time on Planet Earth	episode: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
	Freddy's Nightmares	episode: "Photo Finish"
1990-1991	The Real Ghostbusters
	Timeless Tales from Hallmark
1991-1993	The Pirates of Dark Water
1993-1996	Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1995-1996	What a Cartoon!	Episodes: "Dexter's Laboratory" segments, "Mina and the Count: Interlude with a Vampire", "Gramps"
1996-2003	Dexter's Laboratory
1996-1997	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Episodes: "Undersea Urgency" and "The Haunted Sonata"
	Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1998-2002	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	Episodes: "ChalkZone" segments, "Mina and the Count" segments, "Ask Edward: All About Babies", "Olly and Frank", "My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot", "Baxter and Bananas: Monkey See, Monkey Don't!"
1998	Stories from My Childhood
1998-2005	The Powerpuff Girls
1999-2000	Detention
2002-2007	Codename: Kids Next Door

Accolades

Date	Award	Category	Work	Shared with	Result
1997	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Music Direction and Composition	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Bodie Chandler, Gary Lionelli, Thomas Chase, Larry Brown, Guy Moon, Kevin Kiner, Mark Koval	Nominated
	Annie Awards	Best Individual Achievement: Music in a TV Production	Dexter's Laboratory	Thomas Chase	Nominated
1998		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Television Production	Dexter's Laboratory (for "LABretto")	Thomas Chase	Nominated
2001		Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Television Production	The Powerpuff Girls (for "Meet the Beat-Alls")	James L. Venable and Thomas Chase	Won