Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951) is a retired American composer for fi… Read Full Bio ↴Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951) is a retired American composer for film and television. Known for his signature synthesizer-heavy style, Fiedel is perhaps best known for his now-iconic collaborations with director James Cameron on The Terminator and its critically acclaimed sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Working primarily in the genres of science fiction, action, and horror, his filmography includes Fright Night and its sequel, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Blue Steel, True Lies, and Johnny Mnemonic.
Raised in Bayville, New York on Long Island, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School. After college, he became a popular and progressive composer, and in the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers—almost disappearing from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s. He was the keyboardist for Hall and Oates.
He began his career in film in the late 1970s, and wrote extensively for television films and minor cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction film The Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career.
Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), The Big Easy (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Blink (1994), and True Lies (1994), although in recent years, Fiedel has moved on to other creative areas, writing original musicals and designing and building a surf resort in La Saladita, Mexico.
His last major theatrical score was in 1995, and although he enjoyed a brief period of renewed interest following the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003, when Marco Beltrami wrote an orchestral arrangement of his theme, he shows no sign of returning to the film music field.
Fiedel has been married to actress Ann Dusenberry since 1975; the couple has two children.
Working primarily in the genres of science fiction, action, and horror, his filmography includes Fright Night and its sequel, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Blue Steel, True Lies, and Johnny Mnemonic.
Raised in Bayville, New York on Long Island, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School. After college, he became a popular and progressive composer, and in the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers—almost disappearing from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s. He was the keyboardist for Hall and Oates.
He began his career in film in the late 1970s, and wrote extensively for television films and minor cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction film The Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career.
Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), The Big Easy (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Blink (1994), and True Lies (1994), although in recent years, Fiedel has moved on to other creative areas, writing original musicals and designing and building a surf resort in La Saladita, Mexico.
His last major theatrical score was in 1995, and although he enjoyed a brief period of renewed interest following the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003, when Marco Beltrami wrote an orchestral arrangement of his theme, he shows no sign of returning to the film music field.
Fiedel has been married to actress Ann Dusenberry since 1975; the couple has two children.
The Terminator Theme
Brad Fiedel Lyrics
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Come To Me Your life is the same Day after day Everything that you do Y…
Darkness Darkness Darkness, darkness, be my pillow Take my head and let me…
Entity I find myself in silent daydreams That lock me deep within…
Main Title There's an old Kodak camera in my dresser drawer I ran…
Main Title (Terminator 2 Theme) There's an old Kodak camera in my dresser drawer I ran…
Sunshine of Your Love It's getting near dawn, When lights close their tired eyes. …
Tanker Chase Saian Ölüm gömülemedi sır sulara kerkez Saian mezarsız bu ş…
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Matthew Barich
I learned about the Terminator movies in the 1990s, when I was a kid, but wasn't able to see them at the time.
I saw the second Terminator movie in 2003, when I was 16 years old. It was one of the first action films I saw. I thought it was decent, but not great.
I didn't see the first Terminator movie until 2017. When I saw it then, it blew me away. It is far better.
It had a big impact on me, even though I was much older when I saw it, and had seen many more action films.
It is much more like I imagined the Terminator movies to be when I first learned about them. From what I learned, I imagined that they focused on horror, and intense scenes.
Rick Ogden
I'm 53 years old ..watched this at the cinema assuming it was going to be a cops v bad guy thriller set in anywhere USA...first the intro music blew me away then the rest of the film....an absolute classic
Ridam Misra
you are one lucky fella sir.
DCM
I’m 17 now, I’m the same age you were when this came out 😂
Darian the Scorpion
I’ll be honest, I’m very late on the Terminator bandwagon. A common late 90s kid cliché. But I gave the first film a shot and it blew my mind. 😎👍👍 The 2nd was also a masterpiece, but it all started to go downhill with 3, 4, 5 and 6. In my opinion, 3 to 6 weren’t garbage, just ok-ish. If there was never a 3rd onward, it would’ve been perfect.
Rick Ogden
@Ridam Misra Yes I was...the only thing I regret was that the beautiful lady I watched it with (my girlfriend at the time) and myself split 3 years later..the biggest mistake I ever made..but hindsight is always 20/20
Rick Ogden
Factual Fox All I can say is I watched T1 and T2 in a cinema where they were meant to be seen...all the other sequels don,t count in my book
Martín Camarillo
This theme is three in one; haunting, emotional and robotic. One of the greatest films of all time.
Locahaskatexu
It's... more, in a way... If you close your eyes you can feel that anxiety of "How am I going to survive?!" combined with a desolate loss of hope that makes you realise you probably won't. And yet, there's also the will to fight for your right to live. The song sort of tells you it's idle hope to even want to fight, and yet it spurs you on to do just that, time and again, to make sure the machines can't win. It's a phenomenal effect to achieve this notion with simple synthesized sound, to use machined music to achieve human emotion, it neatly works itself into the theme of the movie.
Alex DeLarge
As you get older you realise that the original is in a league of its own. Shame they don’t make them like that anymore.
bobc4d
yeah, hollywood is a dearth of creativity by remakes of movies and television shows. playing it safe, little originality