John Barry (composer)

Barry was born John Barry Prendergast in York, the youngest of four children. His mother, a classical pianist, was English; his Irish father, John Xavier "Jack" Prendergast from Cork, was a projectionist during the silent film era and later owned a chain of cinemas across northern England.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary |title=John Barry Obituary |work=The Guardian |first=Adam |last=Sweeting |date=31 January 2011 |access-date=3 February 2011 |location=London }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110202071251/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary WebCitation archive].{{cite news |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/man-golden-touch-who-made-score-star-countless-movies-1942201 |title=John Barry Obituary |work=Yorkshire Post |location= Leeds |first=Sheena|last= Hastings |date=31 January 2011 |access-date=3 February 2011 }} As a result of his father's work, Barry was raised in and around cinemas in northern England{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0131/breaking16.html |title=Film composer Barry dies aged 77 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |date=31 January 2011 |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=6 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306135549/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0131/breaking16.html |url-status=dead }} and he later stated that this childhood background influenced his musical tastes and interests. He had two older brothers and one older sister.{{Cite web|title=John Barry Biography|url=https://musicianguide.com/biographies/1608002614/John-Barry.html|access-date=2022-02-13|website=musicianguide.com}} Barry was educated at St Peter's School, York, and received composition lessons from Francis Jackson, Organist of York Minster.

Barry spent his national service in the British Army playing the trumpet, working from a correspondence course with jazz composer Bill Russo.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/trumpet/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} After national service he worked as an arranger for the orchestras of Jack Parnell and Ted Heath, forming his own band, the John Barry Seven,{{cite web|url=http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/features/barry.asp |title=John Barry The Gstaad Memorandum |date=November 1996 |publisher=Film score monthly |access-date=1 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017192928/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/features/barry.asp |archive-date=17 October 2006 }} in 1957. The John Barry Seven recorded hit records on EMI's Columbia label including "Hit and Miss", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme; a cover of the Johnny Smith song "Walk Don't Run"; and a cover of the theme for the United Artists western The Magnificent Seven.

By 1959 Barry was gaining commissions to arrange music for other acts, starting with a young trio on Decca, coincidentally called the Three Barry Sisters, though unrelated both to Barry and American duo The Barry Sisters.Pete Frame The restless generation: how rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain 0952954079 2007 – Page 414 "Meanwhile, Barry was winning commissions to arrange music for other acts, starting with a young trio on Decca, the unrelated (to him) Barry Sisters. Together, they cut two singles, Tall Paul and Jo Jo The Dog-faced Boy, which had been consecutive American hits for Annette Funicello. Neither excited retail interest – and nor did any of the three singles he made with Larry Page" The career breakthrough for Barry was the BBC television series Drumbeat, when he appeared with the John Barry Seven. He was employed by EMI from 1959 until 1962 arranging orchestral accompaniments for the company's singers, including Adam Faith.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/adam-faith/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} He also composed songs (along with Les Vandyke) and scores for films in which Faith was featured. When Faith made his first film, Beat Girl (1960), Barry composed, arranged and conducted the film score, his first. His music was later released as the UK's first soundtrack album.Firth, Simon Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Pop Routledge, 1988, p.147

Barry also composed the music for another Faith film, Never Let Go (also 1960), orchestrated the score for Mix Me a Person (1962), and composed, arranged and conducted the score for The Amorous Prawn (also 1962). In 1962, Barry transferred to Ember Records, where he produced and arranged albums.{{cite web |first=Joshua |last=Cody |url=http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/barry.html |title=The Ensemble Sospeso – John Barry |website=Sospeso.com |date=3 November 1933 |access-date=2 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716110606/http://sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/barry.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}

These achievements caught the attention of the producers of a new film called Dr. No (1962) who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Barry was hired and his arrangement of Norman's composition created the "James Bond Theme". When the producers of the Bond series sought to hire Lionel Bart to score the next James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), they learned that Bart could not read or write music. Though Bart wrote a title song for the film, the producers remembered Barry's arrangement of the James Bond Theme and his composing and arranging for several films with Adam Faith. Bart also recommended Barry to producer Stanley Baker for his 1964 film Zulu.Hall, Dr Sheldon Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It: The Making of the Epic Movie 2005 Tomahawk Press That same year Bart and Barry collaborated on the film Man in the Middle; and then, in 1965, Barry worked with director Bryan Forbes in scoring the World War II prison-camp drama King Rat.

This was the turning point for Barry, and he subsequently won five Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards, with scores for, among others, Born Free (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Midnight Cowboy (1969) for which he did not receive an on-screen credit, and Somewhere in Time (1980).{{cite web|title=Midnight Cowboy (1969)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/combined|website=IMDb.com|access-date=14 March 2014}}

Barry was often cited as having had a distinct style which concentrated on lush strings and extensive use of brass.{{fact|date=May 2023}} He was one of the first to employ synthesizers in a film score (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, also 1969),{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/music/her-majestys-secret-service/|title=John Barry: On Her Majesty's Secret Service|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} and to make wide use of pop artists and songs in Midnight Cowboy.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/midnight-cowboy/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} Because Barry provided not just the main title theme but the complete soundtrack score, his music often enhanced the critical reception of a film, notably in Midnight Cowboy, The Tamarind Seed, the first remake of King Kong (1976), Out of Africa (1985), and Dances with Wolves (1990). Barry would often watch films and would note down with pen and paper what worked or what did not.

Barry composed the theme for the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), also known as The Unlucky Heroes, in which Tony Curtis and Roger Moore were paired as rich playboys solving crimes.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/persuaders/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} The instrumental recording features the cimbalom (which Barry also used for The Ipcress File (1965) and other themes) and Moog synthesizers. The theme was a hit single in many European countries (including France, Germany, and the Benelux states), contributing to the cult status of the series in Europe, and the record featured Barry's The Girl with the Sun in Her Hair on the B side, an instrumental piece featured in a long running TV advert for Sunsilk shampoo. Barry also wrote the scores to a number of musicals, including the 1965 Passion Flower Hotel (lyrics by Trevor Peacock), the successful 1974 West End show Billy (lyrics by Don Black),{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/billy/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} and two intended Broadway musicals that never opened on Broadway, Lolita, My Love (1971), with Alan Jay Lerner as lyricist, and The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981), again with lyricist Don Black.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2011/music/news/john-barry-dies-at-77-1118031189/|website=Variety|title=John Barry dies at 77|first=Jon|last=Burlingame|date=January 31, 2011|accessdate=September 25, 2021}} Barry also composed the soundtrack for the Bruce Lee film Game of Death (1978).

In 2001, the University of York conferred an honorary degree on Barry, and in 2002 he was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York.{{cite web|url=http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/hongrads2001.htm|title=University of York to award nine honorary degrees|publisher=University of York|date=21 June 2001|access-date=21 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005163336/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/hongrads2001.htm|archive-date=5 October 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/01/movie-music-legend-john-barry-dies-aged-77-115875-22889646/|title=Movie music legend John Barry dies aged 77|website=Mirror.co.uk|date=1 February 2010}}

During 2006, Barry was the executive producer on an album entitled Here's to the Heroes by the Australian ensemble The Ten Tenors. The album features a number of songs Barry wrote in collaboration with his lyricist friend, Don Black. Barry and Black also composed one of the songs on Shirley Bassey's 2009 album, The Performance. The song, entitled "Our Time Is Now", is the first written by the duo for Bassey since "Diamonds Are Forever".Shepherd, Fiona. [http://news.scotsman.com/fiona-shepherd/Album-review-Dame-Shirley-Bassey.5785013.jp "Album review: Dame Shirley Bassey"]. The Scotsman 2 November 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629140805/http://news.scotsman.com/fiona-shepherd/Album-review-Dame-Shirley-Bassey.5785013.jp WebCitation archive].

After the success of Dr. No, Barry was hired to compose and perform eleven of the next fourteen James Bond films.

In his tenure with the film series, Barry's music, variously brassy and moody, achieved very wide appeal. For From Russia with Love he composed "007", an alternative James Bond signature theme, which is featured in four other Bond films (Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker{{--)}}. The theme "Stalking", for the teaser sequence of From Russia with Love, was covered by colleague Marvin Hamlisch for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Barry also contributed indirectly to the soundtrack of the spoof version of Casino Royale (1967): his Born Free theme appears briefly in the opening sequence.

In Goldfinger (1964), he perfected the "Bond sound", a heady mixture of brass, jazz elements and sensuous melodies. There is even an element of Barry's jazz roots in the big-band track "Into Miami", which follows the title credits and accompanies the film's iconic image of the camera lens zooming toward the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Barry's love for the Russian romantic composers is often reflected in his music; in his Bond scores he unites this with brass-heavy jazz writing. His use of strings, lyricism, half-diminished chords and complex key shifting provides melancholy contrast; in his scores this is often heard in variations of the title songs that are used to underscore plot development.Madden, Karl. [http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/n_filmsnotenough.php "The Melancholy Touch: Romantic Shades of John Barry's Bond"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216012001/http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/n_filmsnotenough.php |date=16 December 2013 }} in James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films Are Not Enough. Eds. Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield, and Jack Becker. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 1st Edition 2010, 116–126, 2nd Edition 2011, 121–131. Print.

As Barry matured, the Bond scores became more lushly melodic (along with other scores of his such as The Tamarind Seed and Out of Africa) as in Moonraker (1979) and Octopussy (1983). Barry's score for A View to a Kill was traditional, but his collaboration with Duran Duran for the title song was contemporary and reached number one in the United States and number two in the UK Singles Chart. Both A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights theme by A-ha blended the pop music style of the bands with Barry's orchestration.

In 2006, A-ha's Pal Waaktaar complimented Barry's contributions: "I loved the stuff he added to the track, I mean it gave it this really cool string arrangement. That's when for me it started to sound like a Bond thing."{{cite video | people =Waaktaar, Pal (interviewee) |date =2006 | title =James Bond's Greatest Hits | medium =Television | location =UK | publisher =North One Television}}

Barry's last score for the Bond series was The Living Daylights (1987), Timothy Dalton's first film in the series, with Barry making a cameo appearance as a conductor in the film.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/james-bond/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} Barry was intended to score Licence to Kill (1989) but was recovering from throat surgery at the time, and it was considered unsafe to fly him to London to complete the score. The score was completed by Michael Kamen.{{cite web|url=http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/filmnotgraphy.php|title=John Barry – The Man with the Midas Touch|website=Johnbarry.org.uk|date=1 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102035748/http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/filmnotgraphy.php|archive-date=2 November 2011}}

David Arnold, a British composer, saw the result of two years' work in 1997 with the release of Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, an album of new versions of the themes from various James Bond films. Arnold thanks Barry in the sleeve notes, referring to him as "the Guvnor". Almost all of the tracks were Barry compositions, and the revision of his work met with his approval – he contacted Barbara Broccoli, producer of the then upcoming Tomorrow Never Dies, to recommend Arnold as the film's composer.{{cite video | people =Macnee, Patrick (Narrator) | title =The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 | medium = DVD (Documentary) }} Arnold also went on to score four subsequent Bond films: The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

Monty Norman, who was contracted as composer for Dr. No, received sole compositional credit for the "James Bond Theme". Nearly 40 years later, in 2001, the disputed authorship of the theme was examined legally in the High Court in London after Norman sued The Sunday Times for libel for publishing an article in 1997 in which Barry was named as the true composer; Barry testified for the defence.{{cite web| url =http://www.jollinger.com/barry/lawsuit.htm| title = Monty Norman v. The Sunday Times: The "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit| access-date = 24 November 2006| work = The John Barry Resource}}Tweedie, Neil. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1327116/30000-damages-for-composer-of-007-theme-tune.html "£30,000 damages for composer of 007 theme tune"], The Telegraph, 20 March 2001. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101106112919/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1327116/30000-damages-for-composer-of-007-theme-tune.html WebCitation archive].

In court, Barry testified that he had been handed a musical manuscript of a work by Norman (meant to become the theme) and that he was to arrange it musically, and that he composed additional music and arranged the "James Bond Theme". He also claimed that Norman received sole credit because of his prior contract with the producers. Barry said that a deal was struck whereby he would receive a flat fee of £250 and Norman would receive the songwriting credit. Barry said that he had accepted the deal with United Artists Head of Music Noel Rogers because it would help his career. Despite these claims, the jury ruled unanimously in favour of Norman.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1229406.stm|title=Bond theme writer wins damages|work=BBC News|date=1 February 2010}}

On 7 September 2006, Barry reiterated his claim of authorship of the theme on the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2.{{cite web| url =http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/music_barry_on_the_bond_theme.php3?t=&s=| title = John Barry on the Bond Theme| access-date = 24 November 2006| date = 9 September 2006| publisher =MI6-HQ.com}}

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Barry was married four times. His first three marriages, to Barbara Pickard (1959–1963), Jane Birkin (1965–1968) and Jane Sidey (1969–1978) all ended in divorce.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8292892/John-Barry.html |title=John Barry |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=31 January 2010 |location=London }}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110202071251/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary WebCitation archive]. He was married to his fourth wife, Laurie, from January 1978 until his death. The couple had a son, Jonpatrick. Barry had three daughters: Suzanne with his first wife, Barbara; Kate with his second wife, Jane; and Sian, from a relationship with Ulla Larson between the first two marriages.

In 1975, Barry moved to the US. A British judge later accused him of emigrating to avoid paying £134,000 due the Inland Revenue. The matter was resolved in the late 1980s, and Barry was able to return to the UK. He subsequently lived for many years in the United States, mainly in Oyster Bay, New York, in Centre Island on Long Island, from 1980.{{cite web|url=https://www.longislandexchange.com/towns/centre-island/|title=Centre Island – Long Island New York – Long Island Exchange|website=Longislandexchange.com|access-date=22 September 2014}}

Barry suffered a rupture of the esophagus in 1988, following a toxic reaction to a health tonic he had consumed. The incident rendered him unable to work for two years and left him vulnerable to pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=718875&apid=85119 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213064927/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=718875&apid=85119 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 February 2009 |title=John Barry |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=31 January 2011}}

Barry died of a heart attack on 30 January 2011 at his Oyster Bay home, aged 77.Burlingame, Jon. [https://variety.com/2011/film/news/john-barry-dies-at-77-1118031189/ "John Barry Dies at 77"], Variety, 31 January 2011. [https://variety.com/2011/film/news/john-barry-dies-at-77-1118031189/ WebCitation archive].Lovece, Frank. [http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/john-barry-oscar-winning-composer-dies-1.2651728 "John Barry, Oscar-winning Composer, Dies"], Newsday, 31 January 2011 John is buried in Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York.

A memorial concert took place on 20 June 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Shirley Bassey, Rumer, David Arnold, Wynne Evans and others performed Barry's music. Sir George Martin, Sir Michael Parkinson, Don Black, Timothy Dalton and others also contributed to the celebration of his life and work.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13777242 |title= Composer John Barry remembered at memorial concert|publisher=BBC |date= 21 June 2011|access-date=21 June 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12321610 |title=Bond composer John Barry dies aged 77 |publisher=BBC |date= 31 January 2011|access-date=2 February 2011}} The event was sponsored by the Royal College of Music through a grant by the Broccoli Foundation.{{cite web|title=John Barry: The Memorial Concert|url=http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_concert_john_barry_tribute.php3|website=MI6-HQ.com|access-date=15 April 2011}}

In 1999, Barry was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to music. He received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2005.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Owsj_1T_iX8C&q=john+barry+obe+bafta&pg=PT7|title=John Barry: A Sixties Theme: From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy|first=Eddi|last=Fiegel|date=29 November 2012|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571299119}} In 2005, the American Film Institute ranked Barry's score for Out of Africa No. 15 on their list of the greatest film scores.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/barry/facts-gallery/out-africa/|title=John Barry: 15 facts about the great composer|work=Classic FM|access-date=21 June 2015}} His scores and original songs for the following films were nominated:{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313150632/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-03-13|title=AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores: Official Ballot}}

• Goldfinger (1964)
• Born Free (1966)
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
• The Dove (1974)
• The Deep (1977)
• Somewhere in Time (1980)
• Body Heat (1981)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• A View to a Kill (1985)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Chaplin (1992)

Grammy Award

• 1969 Best Instrumental Theme for Midnight Cowboy{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=john+barry&title=&year=All&genre=All|title=Past Winners Search – John Barry|website=Grammy.com|date=1 February 2011|access-date=1 February 2011}}
• 1985 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band for The Cotton Club
• 1985 Best Instrumental Composition for Out of Africa
• 1991 Best Instrumental Composition for Dances with Wolves

Grammy Award nominations

• 1965 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Goldfinger

Emmy Award nominations

• 1964 Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television for Elizabeth Taylor in London (a 1963 television special){{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search?person=john+barry&program=&start_year=1963&end_year=1977&network=All&web_category=All&winner=All|title=Primetime Emmy Award Database|website=Emmys.com|access-date=1 February 2011}}
• 1977 Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Golden Raspberry Award

• 1981 Worst Musical Score for The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Max Steiner Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by the City of Vienna)

• 2009

Lifetime Achievement Award from World Soundtrack Academy (presented at the Ghent Film Festival)

• 2010

In 2011, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Barry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998.{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8292892/John-Barry.html |title=John Barry |work=The Daily Telegraph |location= London |date=31 January 2011 |access-date=1 February 2011}}

Barry worked on the soundtracks for the following James Bond films (title song collaborators in brackets):

• Dr. No (1962) – "James Bond Theme" (composed by Monty Norman) as arranged by Barry used on main and end titles, key points such as Bond's arrival in Jamaica
• From Russia with Love (title song music and lyrics by Lionel Bart) (1963)
• Goldfinger (lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse) (1964)
• Thunderball (lyrics by Don Black) (1965)
• You Only Live Twice (lyrics by Leslie Bricusse) (1967)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Diamonds Are Forever (lyrics by Don Black) (1971)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (lyrics by Don Black) (1974)
• Moonraker (lyrics by Hal David) (1979)
• Octopussy – "All Time High" (lyrics by Tim Rice) (1983)
• A View to a Kill (music and lyrics by Duran Duran) (1985)
• The Living Daylights (music and lyrics by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) (1987)

In addition, a brief excerpt from the song "Born Free" is heard during a sequence in the non-EON Productions Bond film, Casino Royale (1967).

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• Dances with Wolves (1990) US
• Chaplin (1992)
• Year of the Comet (1992) (rejected score{{citation needed|date=September 2018}})
• Ruby Cairo (1992) US
• My Life (1993) US
• Indecent Proposal (1993) US
• The Specialist (1994) US
• Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
• Across the Sea of Time (1995) US
• The Scarlet Letter (1995) US
• Swept from the Sea (1997) US
• Mercury Rising (1998) US
• Playing by Heart (1998) US
• Goodbye Lover (1998) (rejected score{{citation needed|date=September 2018}})
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) (rejected score)
• Enigma (2001)
• The Incredibles (2004) (rejected score{{cite news |title=AICN Animation Double-Header! Moriarty Interviews Brad Bird!! |url=https://www.aintitcool.com/node/18753 |access-date=27 July 2013 |newspaper=Ain't It Cool News |date=5 November 2004 |author=Moriarty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718044035/http://aintitcool.com/node/18753 |archive-date=18 July 2007 |quote=Yeah. We worked on it for a little while, and I’m a huge fan of John Barry. But I kind of wanted him to go back to a style that he used in the past, and use that as kind of a starting place. I think he kind of felt like he’d already done that.}})

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• Elizabeth Taylor in London (Grammy award nomination) (1963)
• Sophia Loren in Rome (1964)
• The Glass Menagerie (1973)
• Love Among the Ruins (1975)
• Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
• Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
• The War Between the Tates (1977)
• Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
• The Gathering (1977)
• The Corn Is Green (1979)
• Willa (1979)
• Svengali (1983)

• Juke Box Jury (1959–1967)
• Dateline (1962)
• Impromptu (1964)
• The Newcomers (1965–1969)
• Vendetta (1966)
• The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
• The Adventurer (1972–1973)
• Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973)
• Born Free (1974)
• USA Today: The Television Show (1988)

• Passion Flower Hotel (1965)
• Lolita, My Love (1971), a musical comedy (text by Alan Jay Lerner) based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita
• Billy (1974)
• The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981)
• Brighton Rock (2004)

• Stringbeat (1961)
• Americans (1975)
• The Beyondness of Things (1999)
• Eternal Echoes (2001)
• The Seasons (no release date set)

(Excludes co-composed hits, e.g. Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill")

• "Hit and Miss" as The John Barry Seven plus Four, UK#10 (first charted 1960)
• "Beat for Beatniks" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#40 (1960)
• "Never Let Go" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#49 (1960)
• "Blueberry Hill" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#34 (1960)
• "Walk Don't Run" as The John Barry Seven, UK#11 (1960)
• "Black Stockings" as The John Barry Seven, UK#27 (1960)
• "The Magnificent Seven" as The John Barry Seven, UK#45 (1961)
• "Cutty Sark" as The John Barry Seven, UK#35 (1962)
• "The James Bond Theme" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#13 (1962)
• "From Russia with Love" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#39 (1963)
• "Theme from The Persuaders! as John Barry, UK#13 (1971)

His four highest-charting hits all spent more than 10 weeks in the UK top 50.

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• Fiegel, Eddi. John Barry: A Sixties Theme: From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy (Faber & Faber: London, UK, 2012)
• Leonard, Geoff, Pete Walker and Gareth Bramley. John Barry – The Man with the Midas Touch (Redcliffe Press: Bristol, UK, 2008)

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• [http://www.johnbarry.org.uk John Barry Website]
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• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0094263 Appearance on Desert Island Discs 13 June 1999]
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