Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alex North was born in Leeds, England, where he now lives with his wife and son. The Whisper Man was inspired by North’s own little boy.
Music Department: Spartacus. Alex North studied music at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, then won a scholarship to Juilliard in New York (1929)
He scored 2001: a space odyssey but Kubrick didn’t use it.