Brandon Campbell is an American music composer for film, TV and video games and is best known for his music contributions to TV series' like ''

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'' and ''

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'' and movies such as ''

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'' and '' The Great Wall''. After graduating from the

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he interned at

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's studio, Remote Control Productions and later served as an assistant to

Ramin Djawadi Ramin Djawadi (, fa, رامین جوادی; born 19 July 1974) is an Iran, Iranian and Germans, German film score, score composer. He is known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' and the HBO series ''Game o ...

. Campbell ventured off on his own in with the film ''Where Love Found Me'', and later that year wrote the music for the thriller ''The Thinning''. As an additional composer Campbell has written music for TV shows, films and video games like ''

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'' (2011–2012), '' Medal of Honor: Warfighter'' (2012), ''

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'' (2013), ''

'' (2011–2016), ''

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'' (2014–2017), ''

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'' (2014), ''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2005–2017), ''

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'' (2018), ''The Ravine'' (2021) and '' Eternals'' (2021). In 2018, Campbell composed the score for the drama-comedy '' Funny Story''. He co-composed the score for the film ''

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'' with Ramin Djawadi, created additional music for ''

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and'' co-composed the second episode of

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's series ''

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'' with Djawadi. Campbell is also composing music for

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's '' The Letter for the King''. He also scored music for '' Pacific Rim: The Black'', the anime series based on ''

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'' and '' Pacific Rim: Uprising''. Campbell co-composed music for the

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video game ''

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'' and the

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video game ''

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'' with Djawadi. Campbell received an

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in 2021 for Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for NETFLIX’s ''The Letter for the King''.

References

External links

Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Brandon American male composers University of Rochester alumni Living people American television composers American film score composers Video game composers Year of birth missing (living people)