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Mark Orton (b. 1968)

Birthplace:
USA

Born:
January 1, 1968

Biography from TheMovieDB

Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio drama. He is both a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of antique and unusual instruments, performing on all manner (and era) of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. Mark is the co-founder of Tin Hat, an internationally renowned composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums. He has written scores for dozens of films – documentary, narrative feature, and fine art – and has composed music for modern dance, theater, experimental radio, video/art installation, the circus, and the concert hall.

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Film Production

Music:
2005  Sweet Land
2006  Comrades in Dreams
2008  The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2011  Flat Daddy
2012  The Revisionaries
2013  A Tangled Tale
2013  Felix Austria!
2014  La sedia della felicità
2014  My Old Lady
2016  Heartland
2019  Loop
2019  Sunset over Mulholland Drive
2019  Use Me
2020  Elsewhere
2020  Jump the Fence
2020  The Last Shift
2022  Ninety-Five Senses

Orchestrator:
2005  Sweet Land
2006  Comrades in Dreams
2008  The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2011  Flat Daddy
2012  The Revisionaries
2013  A Tangled Tale
2013  Felix Austria!
2014  La sedia della felicità
2014  My Old Lady
2015  Pawn Sacrifice
2016  Heartland
2019  Loop
2019  Sunset over Mulholland Drive
2019  Use Me
2020  Elsewhere
2020  Jump the Fence
2020  The Last Shift
2022  Ninety-Five Senses

Original Music Composer:
2002  The Good Girl
2005  Sweet Land
2006  Comrades in Dreams
2008  The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2011  Flat Daddy
2012  360
2012  The Revisionaries
2013  A Tangled Tale
2013  Felix Austria!
2013  Nebraska
2014  La sedia della felicità
2014  My Old Lady
2015  Pawn Sacrifice
2015  People, Places, Things
2016  Heartland
2017  Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
2017  So Much Yellow
2017  The Lears
2017  Unleashed
2018  A Place in Hell
2019  Loop
2019  Sunset over Mulholland Drive
2019  Use Me
2020  Elsewhere
2020  Jump the Fence
2020  The 11th Green
2020  The Last Shift
2021  12 Mighty Orphans
2021  Love Hard
2022  Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
2022  Ninety-Five Senses
2023  Somewhere in Queens
2023  The Holdovers
2025  On Swift Horses

Score Engineer:
2002  The Good Girl
2005  Sweet Land
2006  Comrades in Dreams
2008  The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2011  Flat Daddy
2012  360
2012  The Revisionaries
2013  A Tangled Tale
2013  Felix Austria!
2013  Nebraska
2014  La sedia della felicità
2014  My Old Lady
2015  Pawn Sacrifice
2015  People, Places, Things
2016  Heartland
2017  Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
2017  So Much Yellow
2017  The Lears
2017  Unleashed
2018  A Place in Hell
2019  Loop
2019  Sunset over Mulholland Drive
2019  Use Me
2020  Elsewhere
2020  Jump the Fence
2020  The 11th Green
2020  The Last Shift
2021  12 Mighty Orphans
2021  Love Hard
2022  Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
2022  Ninety-Five Senses
2023  Somewhere in Queens
2023  The Holdovers
2025  On Swift Horses

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TV Production

Original Music Composer:
2023  Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

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