| Biography | John Altman is an English film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.
Altman is a frequent guest conductor for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and served on the board of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers), an as a member of the governing Council of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
His credits as a film score composer include Funny Bones, Beautiful Thing, The MatchMaker, Legionnaire, Hope Springs, Aakasha Gopuram, Bhaji on the Beach, Bad Behaviour, Fidel, King of Texas, Beautiful Joe, On Thin Ice and The Lost Empire. He also scored the tank chase sequence in the James Bond film GoldenEye, and arranged and produced the Academy Award-nominated period music for James Cameron's film Titanic. |