Van Dyke Parks

AKA:
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1943-01-03

Hattiesburg - Mississippi - USA

Biography

Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks.

Crew Roles

Call Me Claus
Original Music Composer
The Company
Music
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Original Music Composer
Little Red Riding Hood
Music Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
Music Consultant
Popeye
Conductor
Out on a Limb
Original Music Composer
One Christmas
Original Music Composer
Wild Bill
Original Music Composer
Bastard Out of Carolina
Original Music Composer
The Two Jakes
Original Music Composer
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Music
Charms for the Easy Life
Music
In the Time of the Butterflies
Original Music Composer
Follow That Bird
Music
Club Paradise
Original Music Composer
Ceremony
Additional Music
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Music
The Ponder Heart
Original Music Composer
Ponce de Leon
Music
Darlin' Clementine
Music
Shadrach
Original Music Composer
Goin' South
Original Music Composer
The Summer of Ben Tyler
Original Music Composer
Casual Sex?
Original Music Composer
Rented Lips
Original Music Composer
Next Door
Original Music Composer
Oliver Twist
Original Music Composer
Noah
Original Music Composer
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
Original Music Composer
Barney's Great Adventure
Original Music Composer
Border Line
Original Music Composer
Monday Night Mayhem
Original Music Composer
Dark Matter
Original Music Composer
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Original Music Composer
The Adventures of Ociee Nash
Original Music Composer
Harlan County War
Original Music Composer
Frogs!
Original Music Composer
A Chance of Snow
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Music
Music
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {35}

Self

2009-12-01 5

1974: On the Road With The Beach Boys

In 1974, The Beach Boys were at a low ebb. Their record sales bottoming out and desperate for income, The Beach Boys hit the road. Family friend and musician Billy Hinsche conned UCLA into letting him ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Francis Hannah

1990-08-10 6

The Two Jakes

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance

2022-03-10 0

Peter Case: A Million Miles Away

Peter Case has lived a life of constant change, soaring highs, and soul-crushing lows. This film walks a million miles in the shoes of one of America’s last great troubadours. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

George

1956-04-26 6.938

The Swan

Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Self (archive footage)

1985-11-22 8

The Beach Boys: An American Band

A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in. ...
Genre :Documentary, History, Music

Self

2010-10-26 7.1

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)

The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self (archive footage)

2010-11-01 0

Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969

A documentary film in which the rich tapestry of music written and produced by this brilliant 20th century composer is investigated and reviewed. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

2004-10-05 7

Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push t ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self / Producer Musician

2015-03-23 8

Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George

This film, the first ever to chronicle Lowell George's life, music and career, uses archive footage and interviews of and with Lowell and Little Feat, plus contributions from many of those who knew hi ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Dr. Weiner

1988-08-05 5.7

Vibes

Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son i ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Comedy

The Musician

1982-09-11 6.1

The Tale of the Frog Prince

A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, TV Movie

1970-12-03 0

Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

An introduction to the world of Ry Cooder and his debut album on Warner Bros. Records. Cooder talks about old movies, trailers and the lay of the land. And most of all about the inspiration from Blind ...
Genre :Music

Indian #2

1978-09-01 3.556

Loose Shoes

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Wood ...
Genre :Comedy

Himself

1988-01-01 10

Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball

Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 live show in Santa Cruz, California, which was part of h ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Hoagy the Piano Player

1980-12-12 5.535

Popeye

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meet ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family

Self

1976-08-05 8

The Beach Boys: It's OK

A live performance from the Beach Boys, featuring their best known songs, including 'Help Me Rhonda' and 'Good Vibrations'. ...
Genre :Music, Documentary, TV Movie, Comedy

Self

2019-11-01 7.3

No Smoking

A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters. The footage traces his encounter with music in early childhood ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self

2005-01-09 7

The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice

The inside story of the Beach Boys from their formation in 1961 to the present day (2005). ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1976-08-05 1

The Beach Boys: It's OK

Originally aired as an television special, this concert film includes interview segments, comedy sketches, and concert footage from Brian Wilson's 1976 return to the concert stage. ...
Genre :Music

Self

2000-03-14 6.8

The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony

These archetypal Southern Californians, who transmuted their experiences growing up in suburban Hawthorne into a potent teen iconography orbiting surfing, cars, and girls, tackle the underlying person ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Himself

2007-03-30 0

Silverchair: Making of Young Modern

Documentary depicting the recording of Silverchair's 2007 album Young Modern, included as a bonus DVD with the deluxe edition. ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Minister of Merriment

1990-05-19 4.806

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

Set in the mythical world of Rhymeland, Gordon Goose returns home to discover that his mom has mysteriously vanished. Now the characters of Rhymeland are in danger of disappearing unless Mother Goose ...
Genre :Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Self

2020-09-15 7.2

A World Without Beethoven?

"What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To answer it, the film explores how Ludwig van Beethoven's innova ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie, History

2021-11-12 0

Sayonara America

Genre :

Self

1995-05-31 6.7

Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind and songwriter for the Beach Boys. The film examines the ups and downs of Wilson's life, incl ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Self (archival footage)

2024-05-21 6.576

The Beach Boys

A celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Himself

2003-11-11 0

Ringo Rama

The making of Ringo's 2003 album, featuring recording sessions with Willie Nelson, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Charlie Haden, Van Dyke Parks & Timothy Schmit. ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Self

2009-12-13 7.2

The People Speak

A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Jack Racine

1990-04-08 8.3

Twin Peaks

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Eddie Stone

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

The Musician

1982-09-11 8.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales. ...
Genre :Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy

Horace

1953-02-01 6.4

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Rel ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Andrew Bonino

1953-09-12 0

Bonino

Bonino is an ethnic situation comedy television series starring Ezio Pinza as an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear his six children after the death of their mother. The program aired on liv ...
Genre :Comedy

Robbie

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Lawrence Alden

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama