Nick Glennie-Smith

Nick Glennie-Smith
Also known as	Nickolas Glennie-Smith
Born	London, England
Genres	Film score, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, conductor
Instrument(s)	Keyboards, guitar
Years active	1976–present

Nickolas Glennie-Smith is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including The Rock (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound), the 2006 historical film Children of Glory and the 1993 spy thriller Point of No Return. Glennie-Smith has also composed the scores for the films Home Alone 3, The Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Secretariat, the score for the Disney direct-to-video animated film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Lauras Stern, Der kleine Eisbär 2 - Die geheimnisvolle Insel and A Sound of Thunder.

Glennie-Smith is a part of Hans Zimmer's film score company Remote Control Productions, for which he has conducted music for the soundtracks on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He was Zimmer's accompanist on the score for Man of Steel.

Glennie-Smith is the master composer of the music in the French theme park le Puy du Fou. He has collaborated with the former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters. He worked on Waters' score for the 1986 film When the Wind Blows, then provided some of the keyboard overdubbing for the song "The Powers that Be" on Waters' 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. album. He performed at the 1990 concert The Wall Live in Berlin as a keyboardist alongside Peter Wood. He also toured in the 1980s with Cliff Richard, again playing keyboards. In 1987, he was responsible, with producer Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and singer Kenny Young, for the album Transmissions^[1] under the group name Gentlemen Without Weapons.

Musical career

Glennie-Smith was born in London. In 1975 he started his musical career with the band Wally, performing keyboards on their second album, Valley Gardens. In 1980, he played keyboards on Leo Sayer's album Living in a Fantasy. Also in 1980, he started recording and touring with Cliff Richard, appearing on three albums, I'm No Hero (synthesizer), Wired for Sound (engineer, piano on one song), and The Rock Connection (synthesizer on one song).^[2][3][4]

Glennie-Smith is also known for his contributions to Roger Daltrey's solo albums, Under a Raging Moon, and Can't Wait to See the Movie, and Paul McCartney's solo albums Press to Play, and Flowers in the Dirt.

He has also worked with many other artists including Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Elvis Costello, Pharrell Williams, Nik Kershaw, Duane Eddy, Katrina & the Waves, and The Adventures.^[5]

Filmography

As primary composer

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
1996	Two If by Sea	Bill Bennett	Morgan Creek Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
	The Rock	Michael Bay	Hollywood Pictures	with Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams
1997	Fire Down Below	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Warner Bros. Pictures	—
	Home Alone 3	Raja Gosnell	20th Century Fox	—
	Cyclops, Baby	D. J. Caruso	Touchstone Pictures	Short film
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	Randall Wallace	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists	—
	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Darrell Rooney	Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment DisneyToon Studios	Direct-to-video film
	Max Q	Michael Shapiro	Touchstone Television ABC	Television film
1999	Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits	Steve Binder	ABC Family	Television film. Reuses music from The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), The Lion King (1994), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998), and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998).
2000	Highlander: Endgame	Doug Aarniokoski	Dimension Films	with Stephen Graziano
2001	Attila	Dick Lowry	Alphaville Films	Gerard Butler
2002	We Were Soldiers	Randall Wallace	Paramount Pictures	—
2004	Ella Enchanted	Tommy O'Haver	Miramax Films	—
	Laura's Star	Piet De Rycker [fr] Thilo Rothkirch [de]	Warner Bros. Pictures	with Hans Zimmer and Henning Lohner
2005	A Sound of Thunder	Peter Hyams		—
	The Little Polar Bear 2 – The Mysterious Island	Piet De Rycker [fr] Thilo Rothkirch [de]	Warner Bros. Pictures Rothkirch Cartoon Film	with Hans Zimmer
2006	Children of Glory	Krisztina Goda	C2 Pictures	—
2010	Secretariat	Randall Wallace	Walt Disney Pictures	—
2013	A Belfast Story	Nathan Todd	Adnuco Pictures	—
2014	Heaven Is for Real	Randall Wallace	TriStar Pictures	—
2021	Laura's Star	Joya Thome	Warner Bros. Pictures	with Hans Zimmer and Henning Lohner

As Other

Year	Title	Director(s)	Composer(s)	Role
1986	When the Wind Blows	Jimmy T. Murakami	Roger Waters	Musician: Synthesizers
1990	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Tom Stoppard	Stanley Myers
1991	Cold Heaven	Nicolas Roeg
	K2	Franc Roddam	Hans Zimmer Chaz Jankel	Composer of Additional Music
1993	Calendar Girl	John Whitesell	Hans Zimmer
	Cool Runnings	Jon Turteltaub		Orchestrator & Composer of Additional Music
	The House of the Spirits	Bille August		Orchestrator & Musician: Piano
1994	Monkey Trouble	Franco Amurri	Mark Mancina	Composer of Additional Music
	The Lion King	Roger Allers Rob Minkoff	Hans Zimmer	Choral Conductor & Composer of Additional Music
	Renaissance Man	Penny Marshall		Orchestrator & Composer of Additional Music
	Drop Zone	John Badham		Composer of Additional Music
1995	Bad Boys	Michael Bay	Mark Mancina
	Crimson Tide	Tony Scott	Hans Zimmer	Orchestrator & Conductor
	Beyond Rangoon	John Boorman		Conductor & Composer of Additional Music
	Two Deaths	Nicolas Roeg		Conductor
	Nine Months	Chris Columbus		Composer of Additional Music
1996	The Preacher's Wife	Penny Marshall
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Bille August	Harry Gregson-Williams Hans Zimmer
2000	The Tigger Movie	Jun Falkenstein	Harry Gregson-Williams	Conductor
	Mission: Impossible 2	John Woo	Hans Zimmer	Musician: Synthesizers
2001	Just Visiting	Jean-Marie Poiré	John Powell	Composer of Additional Music
2002	D-Tox	Jim Gillespie
	The New Guy	Ed Decter	Ralph Sall
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski	Klaus Badelt Hans Zimmer
2004	Thunderbirds	Jonathan Frakes	Ramin Djawadi Hans Zimmer	Conductor
	King Arthur	Antoine Fuqua	Hans Zimmer	Conductor & Composer of Additional Music
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Ron Howard		Choral Conductor & Composer of Additional Music
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Gore Verbinski		Conductor & Composer of Additional Music
	Déjà Vu	Tony Scott	Harry Gregson-Williams
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Gore Verbinski	Hans Zimmer
	Transformers	Michael Bay	Steve Jablonsky	Conductor
	License to Wed	Ken Kwapis	Christophe Beck
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman	Hans Zimmer
2008	Vantage Point	Pete Travis	Atli Örvarsson
	The Forbidden Kingdom	Rob Minkoff	David Buckley
	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Raja Gosnell	Heitor Pereira
2009	Angels & Demons	Ron Howard	Hans Zimmer
	Imagine That	Karey Kirkpatrick	Mark Mancina
	Surrogates	Jonathan Mostow	Richard Marvin
	It's Complicated	Nancy Meyers	Hans Zimmer Heitor Pereira
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Michael Bay	Steve Jablonsky
2010	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Samuel Bayer
	You Again	Andy Fickman	Nathan Wang
	How Do You Know	James L. Brooks	Hans Zimmer
2011	Rango	Gore Verbinski
	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Rob Marshall
	A Little Bit of Heaven	Nicole Kassell	Heitor Pereira
	Winnie the Pooh	Stephen J. Anderson Don Hall	Henry Jackman
	X-Men: First Class	Matthew Vaughn
	Your Highness	David Gordon Green	Steve Jablonsky
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay
2012	Battleship	Peter Berg
	Savages	Oliver Stone	Adam Peters
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore	Henry Jackman
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Jon M. Chu
	This Is the End	Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg
	Gangster Squad	Ruben Fleischer	Steve Jablonsky
	Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin Chris Renuad	Heitor Pereira Pharrell Williams
	Man of Steel	Zack Snyder	Hans Zimmer
	The Lone Ranger	Gore Verbinski
	Pacific Rim	Guillermo del Toro	Ramin Djawadi
	Captain Phillips	Paul Greengrass	Henry Jackman
2014	Winter's Tale	Akiva Goldsman	Hans Zimmer Rupert Gregson-Williams
	300: Rise of an Empire	Zack Snyder	Junkie XL
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Marc Webb	Hans Zimmer Pharrell Williams Johnny Marr Mike Einziger Junkie XL Steve Mazzaro Andrew Kawczynski
	Million Dollar Arm	Craig Gillespie	A. R. Rahman
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Steve Jablonsky
2015	Run All Night	Jaume Collet-Serra	Junkie XL
	Pixels	Chris Columbus	Henry Jackman
	The Little Prince	Mark Osborne	Hans Zimmer Richard Harvey
	Black Mass	Scott Cooper	Junkie XL
2016	Deadpool	Tim Miller
	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Zack Snyder	Hans Zimmer Junkie XL
2017	Fist Fight	Richie Keen	Dominic Lewis
	Sandy Wexler	Steven Brill	Rupert Gregson-Williams
	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg	Geoff Zanelli
	Despicable Me 3	Pierre Coffin Kyle Balda	Heitor Pereira
	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay	Steve Jablonsky
	Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague	Tim Van Someren	Hans Zimmer	Musical director
	Geostorm	Dean Devlin	Lorne Balfe	Conductor
	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Jake Kasdan	Henry Jackman
2018	Game Over, Man!	Kyle Newacheck	Steve Jablonsky
	Smallfoot	Karey Kirkpatrick	Heitor Pereira
	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	Ari Sandel	Dominic Lewis
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore Phil Johnston	Henry Jackman
	Aquaman	James Wan	Rupert Gregson-Williams
2019	Dark Phoenix	Simon Kinberg	Hans Zimmer
	The Lion King	Jon Favreau
	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	Joachim Rønning	Geoff Zanelli
	Jumanji: The Next Level	Jake Kasdan	Henry Jackman
2020	Bad Boys for Life	Adil El Arbi Bilall Fallah	Lorne Balfe
	Bloodshot	David S. F. Wilson	Steve Jablonsky
2022	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Kyle Balda	Heitor Pereira	Booth Reader
	Bullet Train	David Leitch	Dominic Lewis	Conductor
	The Son	Florian Zeller	Hans Zimmer
	Strange World	Don Hall	Henry Jackman
2024	Despicable Me 4	Chris Renaud	Heitor Pereira	Booth Reader
	Dear Santa	Bobby Farrelly	Rupert Gregson-Williams
	Mufasa: The Lion King	Barry Jenkins	Dave Metzger	Songs Conductor

References

1. "Gentlemen Without Weapons Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
2. "I'm No Hero" (Media notes). Cliff Richard. EMI. 1980.
3. "Wired for Sound" (Media notes). Cliff Richard. EMI. 1981.
4. "The Rock Connection" (Media notes). Cliff Richard. EMI. 1984.
5. "Nick Glennie-Smith | Credits". AllMusic. 3 October 1951. Retrieved 28 June 2014.

External links

• Nick Glennie-Smith at IMDb
• Nick Glennie-Smith discography at Discogs
• Page at Hans-Zimmer.com