Billy Strange(1930-2012)

Music Department
Composer
Actor

Billy Strange was born on 29 September 1930 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Next (2007), Passengers (2016) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). He was married to Jeanne Black, Betty Jo Conrad and Joan O'Brien. He died on 22 February 2012 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Known for

Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel in Next (2007)

6.2

Soundtrack

2007

Passengers

7.0

Soundtrack

2016

Ocean's Eleven

7.7

Soundtrack

2001

Brad Pitt, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Kathy Griffin, Kristen Alderson, Kristen Ariza, Jack Blessing, David Cross, Walt Dohrn, Tina Fey, Stephen Kearin, Danny Mann, Tom McGrath, Mike Mitchell, J.K. Simmons, Peter Sohn, Justin Theroux, Christopher Knights, Jessica Schulte, Jonah Hill, Brian Hopkins, Jasper Johannes Andrews, Quinn Dempsey Stiller, Emily Nordwind, Ella Stiller, and Kristen Phaneuf in Megamind (2010)

Megamind

7.3

Soundtrack

2010

Credits

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Music Department

Ed Sullivan Presents Movin' with Nancy on Stage
TV Special
- musical director
- 1971
Dirty Dingus Magee
5.2
- composer: additional music
- 1970
De Sade
4.3
- conductor
- 1969
Movin' with Nancy
7.5
TV Special
- conductor: musical numbers
- music arranger: musical numbers
- 1967
The Cool Ones
4.5
- music arranger
- 1967
Hootenanny Hoot
5.1
- orchestrator (uncredited)
- 1963
Hud
7.8
- musician: guitar (uncredited)
- 1963
Star Route, U.S.A.
TV Movie
- music director
- 1962

Composer

Actor

Personal details

Official site
- Official Site
Alternative name
- William E. Strange
Born
- September 29, 1930
- Long Beach, California, USA
Died
- February 22, 2012
- Franklin, Tennessee, USA(undisclosed)
Spouses
Other works
(1970s) Branch manager of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra's publishing firm in Nashville, TN.

Did you know

Trivia
Generally credited with inventing the "fuzz" or "feedback" guitar sound, which occurred when rehearsing his guitar solo on the rock song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah" by Bobb B. Sox and the Blue Jeans in the mid-1960s. Halfway through his solo the guitar's speaker malfunctioned. He liked the distorted, faraway sound that came out of the broken speaker, and "fine-tuned" it to magnify it when he recorded the actual solo. The song was a hit, and many guitarists began copying his "fuzz" sound on their records.

Quotes
I've played every kind of music in the world. I've played rock and roll, did all the surf records, played with the big orchestras. If they needed somebody in a small group who knew what the hell they were doing in the studio it was me.