John Frizzell

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John C. Frizzell (born 1 June 1966; age 59) is a composer who worked on the Star Trek: Enterprise third season episode "Proving Ground" and on the fourth season episode "The Forge". Some of his work from "Proving Ground" is included on disc three of the 2014 release Star Trek: Enterprise Collection.

Frizzell worked as orchestrator on Wild Palms (1993, starring Kim Cattrall, David Warner, and Bebe Neuwirth) and on Undertow (1996). In 1996, Frizzell was the composer and score producer on Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for which he won a BMI Film Music Award in 1998.

As composer, he worked on the television drama Keys (1994, with Brett Cullen and Robert Schenkkan), It Was Him or Us (1995, with Wil Wheaton), Red Ribbon Blues (1996), The Empty Mirror (1996, with Joel Grey), Dante's Peak (1997) for which he won an ASCAP Film and Television Music Award shared with James Newton Howard, VR.5 (1995-96, starring Louise Fletcher), Alien Resurrection (1997, with Winona Ryder and Ron Perlman and Brad Dourif), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998, with Bill Cobbs and Jeffrey Combs), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), and Beautiful (2000).

Further credits include Thirteen Ghosts (2001, with F. Murray Abraham), Ghost Ship (2002), Gods and Generals (2003), Stay Alive (2006, with Alice Krige), King of the Hill (1997-2006), Primeval (2007), The Reaping (2007), several episodes of Moonlight (2007) and United States of Tara (2009), 100 Feet (2008, with Famke Janssen), Evil Angel (2009), Legion (2010, with Doug Jones), Shelter (2010), Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), and The Secret Circle (2011-12, starring Thomas Dekker), Stalker (2014-15), and The Following (2013-15) for which he won a BMI TV Music Award in 2013 and received an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination in 2014.

Frizzell later worked as composer on When the Bough Breaks (2016), Conviction (2016-17) and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017), and Leatherface (2017).

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