Biography
-
Born
24 December 1949
-
Born In
Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
-
Died
5 February 2016 (aged 66)
Ray Colcord is a film and TV composer living in Los Angeles, most famous for hit TV series such as The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons, My Two Dads, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World. He is a governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and a past President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists. He has received ASCAP, BMI, and Dramalogue awards. Prior to his film career, Ray Colcord worked as an A&R (Artists & Repertoire) representative for Columbia Records, and was music director of the Los Angeles improvisational comedy group "The Groundlings, " which turned out such celebrities as Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira).
Film
Journeys Below the Line: ER - The Prop Masters (video documentary short)
Journeys Below the Line: 24 - The Editing Process (video documentary)
The King's Guard
Heartwood
The Paper Brigade (video)
Amityville Dollhouse: Evil Never Dies (video)
Wish Upon a Star
The Sleeping Car
The Devonsville Terror - Composer
Songs
Dumb & Dumber - "Hip Hop Solution", "Rap me Silly", "Endangered Species", "Snow Bird Serenade"
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - "Bouzouki Trella"
Earth Girls Are Easy - "I LIKE 'EM BIG AND STUPID"
Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection (video documentary) - "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun")
Television
Lost at Home (TV series)
Family Affair (TV series)
Big Brother (TV series)
Style and Substance (TV series)
Tales from the Tomb: Lost Sons of the Pharaohs (TV documentary)
You Wish (TV series)
Hiller and Diller (TV series)
Promised Land (TV series)
Devil's Food (TV movie)
Television's Comedy Classics (TV movie)
Real Funny (TV movie)
Wow! The Most Awesome Acts on Earth (TV movie)
Maybe This Time (TV series)
50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration (TV movie)
Black Sheep (TV movie)
Boy Meets World (TV series)
Almost Home (TV series)
Bowling for Daddies
Hot Ticket - Composer
You Ought to Be in Pictures
The Dance
To Date or Not to Date?
Where I Live (TV series)
Scorch (TV series)
The Torkelsons (TV series)
Dinosaurs (TV series)
The Julie Show (TV movie)
The Simpsons (TV series)
Dead Putting Society
Singer & Sons (TV series)
Jury Duty: The Comedy (TV movie)
Ann Jillian (TV series)
Live-In (TV series)
Trial and Error (TV series)
Women in Prison (TV series)
My Two Dads (TV series)
The Charmings (TV series)
Sweet Surrender (TV series)
227 (TV series)
Double Trouble (TV series)
Silver Spoons (TV series)
Off Your Rocker (TV movie)
The Facts of Life (TV series) - Compos
Music
Ray also played keyboards on the Lou Reed live album Rick n Roll Animal (1974) along with Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass) of the contemporary Alice Cooper band, and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York.
Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
