Brad Fiedel

Raised in Bayville, New York on Long Island, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School.

In the early 1970s, Fiedel was signed as a songwriter to Paul Simon's DeShufflin' Music. In 1973, he spent six months as the keyboardist for Hall & Oates.^[1]

Fiedel began his career in film in the mid-1970s and wrote extensively for television films including Playing for Time written by Arthur Miller, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander, and some independent cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction film The Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career.^[2]

Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night Part 2 (1988), The Big Easy (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Blink (1994), and True Lies (1994). He also composed the Lightstorm Entertainment logo jingle.^[3]

Fiedel's last major theatrical score was in 1995. He released^[when?] an audio version of his original musical, Full Circle.^{[citation needed]}

Fiedel has been married to actress Ann Dusenberry since 1993. The couple have two daughters named Alixandra and Zoe. They live in Santa Barbara, California.^[4][5]