Copeland, Stewart 1952–

PERSONAL

Full name, Stewart Armstrong Copeland; born July 16, 1952, in Maclean, VA (some sources say Alexandria, VA); son of Miles Axe, II (a Central Intelligence Agency operative) and Lorraine Elizabeth (an archeologist; maiden name, Adie) Copeland; married Sonja Kristina Shaw (an actress and singer), July 16, 1982 (divorced); married Fiona; children: (first marriage) Sven, Patrick, Jordan, Scott. Education: Graduated with degrees in public policy and communications from the University of California at Berkeley.

Addresses:

Agent—United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—First Artists Management, 16000 Ventura Blvd., Suite 605, Encino, CA 91436.

Career:

Composer, director, and musician. Member of the music groups Curved Air . 1970s), the Police (1976-85), Animal Logic . early 1990s), The Rhythmatists (1994), and reunited version of The Doors (2002).

Member:

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Songwriters Guild (U.K.), Performing Right Society (U.K.), Musician's Union (U.K.).

Awards, Honors:

Grammy Award, best rock instrumental performance, 1980, for Regatta de Blanc; Grammy Award (with the Police), best rock instrumental performance, 1981, for "Behind My Camel"; Grammy Award (with the Police), best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal, 1981, for "Don't Stand So Close to Me"; Grammy Award (with the Police), best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal, 1983, for Synchronicity; Grammy Award (with the Police), best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal, 1983, for "Every Breath You Take"; Golden Globe Award nomination, best original score-motion picture, 1984, for Rumble Fish; Hollywood Discovery Award, Hollywood Film Festival, Music in Film Visionary, 1998; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Police, 2003; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding music composition for a series (dramatic underscore), 2004, for Dead Like Me; Cable Award, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) 2004, for The Amanda Show; Television Music Award (with others), Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) 2005, for Desperate Housewives; winner of gold and multiple platinum records and numerous other awards with the Police.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Director, So What?, CCCP, 1983.

Music score producer, Out of Bounds, 1986.

Song producer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986.

Song producer, Earth Girls Are Easy, 1989.

Percussion performer, Airborne, 1993.

Percussion performer, Fresh, 1994.

Percussion performer, The Leopard Son, Discovery Channel Pictures, 1996.

Percussion performer, The Pallbearer, Miramax, 1996.

Percussion performer, Gridlock'd, Gramercy, 1997.

Piano performer, bass performer, and percussion performer, Pecker, Fine Line, 1998.

Percussion performer, She's All That, Miramax, 1999.

Song arranger, keyboards performer, bass performer, and percussion performer, Simpatico, Fine Line, 1999.

Score producer, piano performer, bass performer, and percussion performer, Skipped Parts (also known as The Wonder of Sex), 2000.

Piano and percussion performer, Deuces Wild (also known as Deuces Wild—Wild in den StraBen), 2002.

Producer, cinematographer, editor, and director, Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (documentary), Vistavega, 2006.

Film Appearances:

(With the Police) Punk and Its Aftershocks (also known as British Rock and British Rock—Ready for the 80s), 1980.

(With the Police) Himself, Urgh! A Music War, 1981.

(Uncredited) Cameo, She's Having a Baby, 1988.

I Want My MTV, 1996.

Voice of first American soldier, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (animated; also known as South Park and South Park: BLU), 1999.

Himself, The Filth and the Fury (documentary), Fine Line, 2000.

Himself, Searching for Roger Taylor (documentary), 2000.

1 Giant Leap, Palm Pictures, 2002.

Himself, Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out, Vistavega, 2006.

Television Appearances; Series:

Judge, Just the Two of Us, BBC, 2006.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The 3rd Annual International Rock Awards, ABC, 1991.

Jesse James, Horse Opera, 1993.

The Making of the Leopard Son, Discovery Channel, 1996.

100 Greatest Number One Singles, Channel 4, 2001.

I Love the 80's Strikes Back, VH1, 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(With the Police) Himself, Cheggers Plays Pop, BBC, 1983.

Late Night with David Letterman, NBC, 1984.

(As Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve) Himself, "Cash," The Young Ones, 1984.

Pickpocket, "Re-entry," The Equalizer, CBS, 1987.

Limboland, Comedy Central, 1994.

The List, VH1, 1999.

Big Sound, 2000.

"1984," Behind the Music (also known as VH1's "Behind the Music"), VH1, 2000.

"Jam Session," Big Sound, Global, 2001.

Zibb, 2006.

RECORDINGS

Albums (with The Police):

Outlandos d'Amour, A&M, 1978.

Regatta de Blanc, A&M, 1979.

Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M, 1980.

Ghost in the Machine, A&M, 1981.

Synchronicity, A&M, 1983.

Every Breath You Take: The Singles, 1986.

Albums (with Animal Logic):

Animal Logic, 1990.

Animal Logic II, 1991.

Rose Colored Glasses, Capitol, 1991.

Albums (solo):

Rumble Fish (original motion picture soundtrack), A&M, 1983.

The Rhythmatist, A&M, 1985.

Music for the Equalizer and Other Cliffhangers, IRS/No Speak, 1988.

Rapa Nui (original motion picture soundtrack), RCA, 1994.

The Leopard Son, 1996.

Also recorded Klark Kent.

Videos:

The Police: Around the World, 1982.

The Police: Synchronicity Concert, 1984.

The Rhythmatist, A & M Video, 1985.

The Police: Every Breath You Take—The Videos, 1987.

Film-Fest DVD: Issue 1—Sundance, 1999.

"Rumble Fish": The Percussion-Based Score (short), Universal Studios Home Video, 2005.

Video Games:

Himself (with the Police), SingStar Party, 2004.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

Rumblefish, Universal, 1983.

Out of Bounds, Columbia, 1986.

Wall Street, 1987.

Talk Radio, 1988.

She's Having a Baby, 1988.

The Jogger, 1988.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, 1989.

The First Power (also known as Pentagram, Possessed, Possessed by Evil, and Transit), 1990.

Men at Work, 1990.

Riff-Raff, 1990.

Hidden Agenda, 1990.

Highlander II: The Quickening (also known as Highlander—Le retour and Highlander II: The Renegade Version), 1991.

Taking Care of Business (also known as Filofax), 1991.

Wide Sargasso Sea, 1993.

Raining Stones, 1993.

Bank Robber, 1993.

Seconds Out, 1993.

Airborne, 1993.

Fresh, 1994.

Rapa Nui, 1994.

Silent Fall, 1994.

Surviving the Game, 1994.

Decadence, 1994.

Judgment, 1995.

The Pallbearer, Miramax, 1996.

Boys, Buena Vista, 1996.

The Leopard Son, Discovery Channel Pictures, 1996.

Gridlock'd, Gramercy, 1997.

O Que El Isso, Companheiro? (also known as Four Days in September and Four Days in September (Que El Isso, Companheiro?)), Miramax, 1997.

Good Burger, Paramount, 1997.

Little Boy Blue, Curb Entertainment, 1998.

West Beyrouth (also known as Beyrouth Al Gharbiyya, West Beirut, and West Beyrouth), Cowboy Booking International, 1998.

Very Bad Things, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1998.

Pecker, Fine Line, 1998.

She's All That, Miramax, 1999.

Simpatico, Fine Line, 1999.

Made Men, 1999.

Skipped Parts (also known as The Wonder of Sex), Trimark, 2000.

Boys and Girls, Dimension Films, 2000.

Sunset Strip, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

On the Line, Miramax, 2001.

Deuces Wild (also known as Deuces Wild—Wild in den StraBen), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2002.

Me and Daphne (short), 2002.

I Am David, Artisan Entertainment, 2003.

Amazon Forever, 2004.

Fish Eye (short), Tentacle Films, 2005.

Pucked (also known as National Lampoon's "Pucked" and National Lampoon's "The Trouble with Frank"), National Lampoon Productions, 2006.

Film Songs:

"Deathwish," Riding High, 1980.

"Rehumanize Yourself," Bachelor Party, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986.

Earth Girls Are Easy, 1989.

"Walls Come Down," Very Bad Things, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1998.

Film Writing:

Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (documentary), Vistavega, 2006.

Television Scores; Series:

Brutally Normal, The WB, 2000.

Beyond the Glory, Fox Sports, 2001.

Breaking News, Bravo, 2002.

Dead Like Me, Showtime, 2003-2004.

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (animated), Cartoon Network, 2004.

Television Theme Songs; Series:

The Equalizer, CBS, 1985-89.

"In Trouble Again," Droids: The Adventures of R2D2 and C3PO, ABC, 1986.

"Amanda's Theme," The Amanda Show, Nickelodeon, 1999—.

Dead Like Me, Showtime, 2003-2004.

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (animated), Cartoon Network, 2004.

Television Scores; Miniseries:

Shalom Salaam, 1989.

Television Scores; Movies:

Afterburn, HBO, 1992.

Fugitive Among Us, CBS, 1992.

Babylon 5: The Gathering (also known as B5 and Babylon 5), TNT, 1993.

Horse Opera, 1993.

Tyson, HBO, 1995.

White Dwarf, Fox, 1995.

The Assassination File (also known as Out in the Cold), 1996.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, ABC, 1998.

Futuresport, ABC, 1998.

Legalese, TNT, 1998.

Made Men, HBO, 1999.

Riding the Bus with My Sister, CBS, 2005.

Television Scores; Pilots:

TV 101, CBS, 1988.

After Midnight, ABC, 1988.

Dead Like Me, Showtime, 2003.

Television Scores; Episodic:

"Noah's Ark," Long Ago and Far Away, PBS, 1989.

Also scored Desperate Housewives, ABC.

Video Scores:

The Rhythmatist, A & M Video, 1985.

Video Game Scores:

Spyro the Dragon, 1998.

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (also known as Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer and Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage!), 1999.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon (also known as Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon), 2000.

(Title song only) Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Infogames Entertainment, 2001.

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, 2002.

Opera Scores:

Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, 1989.

Cask of Amontillado, 1994.

Ballet Scores:

Lear, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, CA, 1985.

The Stars That Played with Lucky Joe's Cards, 1994.

Also scored Prey.

Symphonies:

Wrote Noah's Ark and Salcheeka.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Schirmer, 2001.

Periodicals:

The Independent, October 7, 1993, p. 16.

Interview, September, 1997, p. 96.

People Weekly, October 4, 1993, p. 148.

Electronic:

Stewart Copeland Website,http://www.stewartcopeland.net, February 7, 2007.