MANSFIELD, David 1956–

PERSONAL

Born September 13, 1956, in Pittsburgh, PA; son of Newton Mansfield and Gwyndolyn Graves (maiden name, Lewis) Holtham; married Joann Carelli, September 28, 1979 (marriage ended); married Maggie Greenwald, 1994; children: (first marriage) Calantha.

Addresses: Agent— Joseph Cohen, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Contact— Rich Jacobellis, Ingenuity Entertainment, 9000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 300, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

Career: Composer and musician. Band member of Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends, c. 1973, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975–76, Alpha, 1976–79, and Bruce Hornsby and the Range (founding member), 1980s. Also record producer for performers such as Cindy Bullens.

Member: American Federation of Musicians, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild.

Awards, Honors: Golden Globe Award nomination, best original motion picture score, 1986, for Year of the Dragon; Grammy Award, best new artist (with Bruce Hornsby and the Range), National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 1986; Havana Film Festival Award, best music, and Golden Osella Award, best original music, Venice Film Festival, both 1996, for Profundo carmesi; Recording Industry Association of America awards include platinum record for The Way It Is and gold records for "Desire" and "Hard Rain."

CREDITS

Film Work:

Music arranger and band member, Heaven's Gate (also known as Johnson County Wars ), United Artists, 1980.

Music performer, Timerider, Jensen Farley, 1982.

Music arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and song performer, Year of the Dragon, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1985.

Music arranger and conductor, The Sicilian, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1987.

Music arranger (with others) and conductor, Desperate Hours, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1990.

Music performer, The Apostle, October Films, 1997.

Music performer, Harvest, Artisan Entertainment, 1998.

Music arranger, director, and performer, Songcatcher, Lions Gate Films, 2001.

Music arranger (with others), Divine Secrets of the

Ya–Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., 2002.

Film Appearances:

Appeared in the film Renaldo and Clara.

Television Work; Movies:

Music performer, A Good Baby, Cinemax, 2000.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Appeared in Hard Rain, NBC.

RECORDINGS

Albums:

(With Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends) Media Push, Warner Bros., 1973.

(With Alpha) The Alpha Band, Arista, 1976.

(With Alpha) Spark in the Dark, Arista, 1977.

(With Alpha) The Statue Makers of Hollywood, Arista, 1978.

Heaven's Gate (soundtrack recording), EMI/Liberty, 1980.

Year of the Dragon (soundtrack recording), Varese–Sarabande, 1985.

(With Evercall Ready) Evercall Ready, Maranatha! Music, 1985.

(With Bruce Hornsby and the Range) The Way It Is, RCA, 1986.

The Sicilian (soundtrack recording), Virgin, 1987.

(With Alpha) Interviews, Edsel, 1988.

The Desperate Hours (soundtrack recording), Varese–Sarabande, 1990.

(With Bruce Hornsby and the Range) A Night on the Town, RCA, 1990.

(Contributor) Tales from the Crypt (soundtrack recordings), Big Screen, 1992.

The Ballad of Little Jo (soundtrack recording), Intrada, 1994.

(Contributor) Lonesome Dove: Classics Western Scores 2 (soundtrack recordings), Silva America, 1996.

Contributor to albums recorded by many other artists, including Murray Attaway, Vince Bell, Cindy Bullens, T–Bone Burnett, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Loudon Wainwright III, and Dwight Yoakum. Singles include "Desire" and "Hard Rain."

Music Videos:

Appeared in "Mandolin Rain," "A Night on the Town," and "The Way It Is."

WRITINGS

Film Music:

Heaven's Gate (also known as Johnson County Wars ), United Artists, 1980.

Year of the Dragon, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1985.

Club Paradise, Warner Bros., 1986.

The Sicilian, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1987.

Miss Firecracker, Corsair, 1989.

Desperate Hours, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1990.

Late for Dinner, Columbia, 1991.

Me and Veronica, Arrow, 1993. The Ballad of Little Jo, Fine Line, 1993.

The Outlaws: Legend of O. B. Taggart, EnterTech Media Group, 1994.

Profundo carmesi (also known as Deep Crimson and Carmin profond ), 1996, with English subtitles, New Yorker, 1997.

The Apostle, October Films, 1997.

El evangelio de las maravillas (also known as Divine ), Keyfilms Roma/Mondo Films/Wanda Distribucion Cinematografica de Films, 1998.

Dark Harbor, New City Releasing, 1998.

Tumbleweeds, Fine Line, 1999.

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (also known as No One Writes to the Colonel, Pas de lettre pour le colonel, and Personne n'ecrit au colonel ), Alta Films/DMVB Films/Eurocine/Keyfilms Roma, 1999.

Floating, Phaedra Cinema, 1999.

Ropewalk (also known as Hanginaround ), Winter Films, 2000.

Asi es la vida (also known as Such Is Life and C'est la vie ), Wanda Vision, 2000.

Songcatcher, Lions Gate Films, 2001.

Flora's Garment Bursting into Bloom, Dameworks, 2001.

Divine Secrets of the Ya–Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., 2002.

Television Music; Movies:

Into the Homeland, HBO, 1987.

David's Mother, CBS, 1994.

Dangerous Affair, ABC, 1995.

Truman, HBO, 1995.

The Stranger beside Me, ABC, 1995.

A Streetcar Named Desire, CBS, 1995.

Radiant City, ABC, 1996.

The People Next Door, CBS, 1996.

Suddenly, ABC, 1996.

The Advocate's Devil, ABC, 1997.

Road Ends, Cinemax, 1997.

Outrage, ABC, 1998.

A Winter's Tale, CBS, 2000.

A Good Baby, Cinemax, 2000.

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story, CBS, 2000.

What Makes a Family, Lifetime, 2001.

Get a Clue, The Disney Channel, 2002.

Tempted, Lifetime, 2003.

Television Music; Specials:

"The Mouse and the Motorcycle," ABC Weekend Special, ABC, 1986.

"Mrs. Cage," American Playhouse, PBS, 1992.

Great Books: The Right Stuff (also known as The Right Stuff ), The Discovery Channel/The Learning Channel, 2001.

Television Music; Episodic:

"Dead Wait," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's Tales from the Crypt ), HBO, 1991.

Also composer for "The Box," Tribeca, Fox.

Television Pilots:

Hard Copy, CBS, 1987.

Tribeca, Fox, 1993.

Other:

Songwriter.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

David Mansfield Official Site, http://members.aol.com/smashprod, May 20, 2003.