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Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer

Fact Sheet

OccupationFilm music composer  
Birthday12 September 1957 (52)
SignVirgo
Birthplace  Frankfurt, Germany
Hans Florian Zimmer is a German composer, best known for composing movie soundtracks.

Born in Frankfurt, Zimmer began his musical career playing keyboards and synthesizers, among others with the bands Ultravox and The Buggles ("Video Killed the Radio Star").

In the 1980s, he started composing and producing sound tracks for movies. His breakthrough came in 1988, with the theme for Rain Man, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Since then, Zimmer has composed music for many major movies, such as Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and Mission: Impossible II. In 1995, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the animated movie The Lion King.




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