Elia David Cmíral is a film composer

Composer

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. He was born in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 and emigrated to Sweden

Sweden

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, moving to the United States

United States

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 in 1987. There, he attended the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 and scored for an independent film entitled Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero is a political thriller from Argentina. Directed by Argentine-born screenwriter Martin Donovan and starring Hart Bochner and Colin Firth, the film is suffused with homoerotic overtones and moments of black comedy. The film was produced in 1988 and premiered at film festivals...

. He has also composed for Nash Bridges

Nash Bridges

Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. The show ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29, 1996 to May 4, 2001 with a total of...

, Blackbeard, Ronin

Ronin (film)

Ronin is a 1998 action-thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by J.D. Zeik and David Mamet. It stars Robert De Niro and Jean Reno as two of several former special forces and intelligence agents who team up to steal a mysterious, heavily guarded suitcase while navigating a maze of...

, Dolph Lundgren's The Mechanik

The Mechanik

The Mechanik is a 2005 action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren, written by Bryan Edward Hill and co-starring Ben Cross.- Plot :...

, Missionary Man, Pulse, Atlas Shrugged:Part 1 (2011)

Atlas Shrugged (film)

Atlas Shrugged: Part I is a 2011 American film adaptation of part of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, intended as the first film of a trilogy encompassing the entire book. After various treatments and proposals floundered for nearly 40 years, investor John Aglialoro initiated production in...

., and the award-winning adventure game The Last Express

The Last Express

The Last Express is a video game created by Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions, published in 1997. It is an adventure game that takes place on the Orient Express, days before the start of World War I. It is noted as being one of the few video games that attempts to realistically simulate...

. His last name is pronounced tsmee-rahl.

Filmography

• 2011 Rites of Passage

• 2011 Atlas Shrugged: Part 1

• 2011 Creepers

• 2010 Lost Boys: The Thirst (video) 2010

• 2010 Habermann

• 2010 Call Me Bill (short)

• 2010 The Killing Jar

• 2009 Forget Me Not

• 2008 Pulse 3 (video)

• 2008 Splinter

• 2008 Pulse 2: Afterlife (video)

• 2007 Missionary Man

• 2007 Tooth & Nail

• 2007 The Deaths of Ian Stone

• 2006 Pulse

• 2006 Journey to the End of the Night

• 2005 The Cutter

• 2005 The Mechanik

• 2005 Iowa

• 2003 Eliza Dushku: Babe in the Woods (video documentary short)

• 2003 Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn (video documentary short)

• 2003 Son of Satan

• 2003 Stan Winston: Monster Mogul (video documentary short)

• 2002 They

• 2002 Diggin' Up 'Bones (video short)

• 2002 Urban Gothic (video documentary short)

• 2001 Bones

• 2000 Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000

• 2000 Six-Pack

• 1999 The Decadent Visitor (short)

• 1999 Stigmata

• 1999 The Wishing Tree

• 1998 Ronin

• 1998 Prophecies (documentary)

• 1998 Visions of America (documentary)

• 1997 Babies for Babies (documentary)

• 1997 Sunsets by Candlelight (documentary)

• 1996 Somebody is Waiting

• 1995 The Way Through Hell

• 1993 (Sökarna)

• 1988 Apartment Zero

• 1988 Alfred Jarry - Superfreak (short)

• 1988 En hundsaga

• 1986 A Matter of Life and Death

Television

• 2007 While the Children Sleep (TV Movie)

• 2006 Blackbeard (TV Movie)

• 2005 The Reading Room (TV Movie)

• 2002 The Rats (TV Movie)

• 1996 Nash Bridges (TV series)

• 1993 Macklean (TV mini-series)

• 1991 Rosenholm (TV series)

• 1991 Barnens Detektivbyrå (TV movie)

• 1991 Kopplingen (TV movie)

• 1989 Flickan vid stenbänken (TV series)

External links

• Soundtrack Collector: Composer Details: Elia Cmiral