Philip Glass

AKA: Philip Morris Glass
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1937-01-31

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Biography

Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century.  His music is also often controversially described as minimal music.

Crew Roles

Notes on a Scandal
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The Illusionist
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The Hours
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Original Music Composer
Pointy Teeth for Pointy People
Music
Hamburger Hill
Original Music Composer
No Reservations
Music
Koyaanisqatsi
Original Music Composer
Taking Lives
Original Music Composer
Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2
Original Music Composer
Powaqqatsi
Music
In the Upper Room
Music
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Original Music Composer
The Fog of War
Original Music Composer
Mr. Nice
Original Music Composer
Philip Glass: Akhnaten
Original Music Composer
Essence of Life
Thanks
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Original Music Composer
Anima Mundi
Original Music Composer
Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama
Music
They Were There
Original Music Composer
Evidence
Original Music Composer
The Eden Myth
Music
Rebirth
Original Music Composer
You, Me, and Movies
Music
Geometry of Circles
Music
Trans-Action
Music
Visitors
Music
War and the Weather
Music
The Source
Sound
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Writer
Alice
Original Music Composer
Taniel
Musical
These Vagabond Shoes
Music
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
Music
Mama General
Original Music Composer
LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE
Music
Einstein on the Beach
Original Music Composer
Objects and Memory
Music
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Music
Re: Awakenings
Original Music Composer
Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos
Music
Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective
Music
In the Penal Colony
Sound
Roving Mars
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Hard-Hearted
Music
Secret Window
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Undertow
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La mort de Molière
Music
Kundun
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The Man in the Bath
Music
Glass: The Perfect American
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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
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Elena
Original Music Composer
The Song
Songs
Continuum: 1. Initiation
Music Arranger
The Truman Show
Music
The Truman Show
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The Secret Agent
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Wildfire
Music
Animals in Love
Music
Inquiring Nuns
Original Music Composer
Candyman
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Naqoyqatsi
Music
Chappaqua
Music Supervisor
Koyaanisqatsi
Music
The Thin Blue Line
Music
The Interview
Original Music Composer
Jane
Original Music Composer
North Star: Mark di Suvero
Music
The Origins of AIDS
Music
The Moustache
Original Music Composer
Monolithe
Music
Carolyn I
Music
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Music
Neverwas
Music
Besa: The Promise
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Bent
Original Music Composer
Perfect Moment
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Crônica da Demolição
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November 22, 1963
Music
Sara
Music
Leviathan
Music
Anhedonia
Songs
Empire City
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Railroaded
Music
The Pigeon Tunnel
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Mindwalk
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Glass: Kepler
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Einstein on the Beach
Writer
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Music
A Perfect Couple
Music
ACT III
Music
Continuum: Parts 1 & 2
Music Arranger
The Giant Buddhas
Original Music Composer
End of the Art World
Music
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Music
Isy Boukir
Music
Vivre est une solution
Music
Fantastic Four
Original Music Composer
Anxious Automation
Music
Untitled: New Blue
Music
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten
Writer
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Writer
Universal Machine
Music
The Last Dalai Lama?
Original Music Composer
Samurai Marathon
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A Brief History of Time
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The Juniper Tree
Music
Lucinda Childs' Dance
Music
Mirror of the Planet
Original Music Composer
The Baroness and the Pig
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Un leader in ascolto
Original Music Composer
Cassandra's Dream
Original Music Composer
Closet Land
Music Supervisor
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry
Original Music Composer
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel With Yuja Wang and the Orchestre de Paris
Original Music Composer
The Apostle
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Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom
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No Reservations
Original Music Composer
Neverwas
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Once Within a Time
Original Music Composer
Dobrawa Czocher Europavox Sessions 2023
Original Music Composer
The Lost Ones
Sound
The Church
Music
CHIMALMA
Music
Jane Goodall: An Inside Look
Music
when you slip on a banana peel
Songs
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {47}

Self

2008-04-02 6

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

1997-01-01 6.25

Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had been on the cutting-edge of pop music throughout most of the 1960s and the '70s, first as half of the seminal folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, and then as a well-recei ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Self

2007-09-07 6.4

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

1971-01-01 0

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971

With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wo ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

1968-01-01 8

Hands Scraping

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their h ...
Genre :

Self

1999-09-01 6.8

A Brief History of Errol Morris

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career inc ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

1983-08-03 7.3

Four American Composers: Philip Glass

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that ...
Genre :Documentary, Music, TV Movie

1986-09-03 0

The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, w ...
Genre :

Self

1999-01-23 5.2

The Source

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations ...
Genre :Documentary, History

composer (himself)

1985-10-14 10

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2014-02-17 5.1

What Difference Does It Make?

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

2005-03-03 0

The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker. ...
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Self

2022-01-16 0

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert “Bob” Wilson puts minimalistic petrol p ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2022-10-28 0

A Place Called Music

The musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Glass. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

0

The Making of "Once Within a Time"

A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time". ...
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Self

2008-11-25 0

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra belie ...
Genre :Documentary

Keyboard Artist

1998-06-04 8.149

The Truman Show

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self

1974-06-07 5.5

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is co ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Himself (Interviewee)

2002-05-01 0

The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch. ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

2007-12-31 10

365 Day Project

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2005-01-01 0

Philip Glass: Looking Glass

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks a ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2008-09-26 6.105

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his death in 1992, Arthur prolifically crea ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

1975-05-20 5

What Maisie Knew

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative. - BM ...
Genre :

Interviewee

2002-09-17 7

Essence of Life

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi." ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2002-09-17 5.5

Impact of Progress

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002). ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1997-03-21 0

Perfect Moment

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, whi ...
Genre :Documentary

2001-01-01 0

In the Ocean

A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

1986-01-01 0

Bye Bye Kipling

This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo D ...
Genre :Documentary, Music, TV Movie

Himself

2017-01-20 7.1

Trophy

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2010-10-15 0

Music

The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and producers across genres. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2005-04-09 0

Kiki and Herb Reloaded

The outrageous drag-cabaret duo Kiki and Herb share their past, present and future as they tour the UK. A mixture of live performance and celebrity interviews (featuring Rufus Wainwright and the Sciss ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Self

2017-06-19 0

The Last Dalai Lama?

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a fresh look at what is important for His Holiness, w ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2006-11-07 0

The Harry Smith Project Live

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential Anthology of American Folk Music. Instrumental in inspiring ...
Genre :Music

Himself

1986-10-08 0

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the Württemberg State Theater, Stuttgart, and the Houston Gr ...
Genre :Documentary

1987-09-14 0

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Filmmaker Howard Bro ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2011-12-01 0

Lucinda Childs' Dance

A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip Glass in film/decor of Sol Lewitt, Lucinda received ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2012-05-11 7.2

Paul Simon: Under African Skies

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of Sou ...
Genre :Music, Documentary, History

2008-08-01 0

Making Mishima

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul Schrader's film, the image of Mishima that they ha ...
Genre :Documentary

2021-08-11 0

War and the Weather

Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of "atmospheric rivers," or streams of water vapor in the sky ...
Genre :Documentary, Animation, History

2015-01-01 0

The Viking of Sixth Avenue

A documentary about the colorful life, times and music of a true original, Louis “Moondog” Hardin, an eccentric blind musician and composer who had far-reaching artistic influence in spite of a delibe ...
Genre :Documentary

self

2003-12-31 0

Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress

A short about the making of Powaqqatsi ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1990-01-01 0

John Cage: Man and Myth

An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self - Musical Guest

1975-10-11 7

Saturday Night Live

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying ...
Genre :Comedy, News

Self

1986-01-01 0

Tea with Tosh

'Tea with Tosh' was a cable public access TV chat show that aired from 1986-87. Hosted by Tosh Berman and featuring guests such as Philip Glass, Russ Tamblyn, Carole Caroompas, and Michael Silverblatt ...
Genre :Talk

Self

2004-11-11 6.2

The Culture Show

A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more. ...
Genre :News, Documentary

Self

1978-12-28 7.4

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. ...
Genre :

Self

1997-04-14 7.7

Classic Albums

A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music. ...
Genre :Documentary