From crashing strings to ambient groans, music (and sometimes the absence of it) ratchets up the cinematic tension. These composers produced the scores that helped give us the feeling of film noir.
15 or more films
Roy Webb (26)
Max Steiner (24)
Franz Waxman (20)
Miklos Rozsa (20)
George Duning (18)
David Buttolph (17)
Paul Sawtell (16)
Victor Young (16)
Frank Skinner (15)
Hans Salter (15)
Leith Stevens (15)
10 to 14 films
Daniele Amfitheatrof (14)
Dimitri Tiomkin (14)
Leigh Harline (14)
Hugo Friedhofer (14)
Raul Lavista (13)
Paul Dunlap (13)
Heinz Roemheld (12)
William Alwyn (12)
Mischa Bakaleinikoff (12)
Adolph Deutsch (11)
David Raksin (11)
Alfred Newman (11)
Stanley Black (10)
Sol Kaplan (10)
Antonio Díaz Conde (10)
5 to 9 films
Cyril J. Mockridge (8)
Georges Auric (8)
Benjamin Frankel (8)
Bronislau Kaper (8)
Georges Delerue (7)
André Previn (7)
Louis Forbes (7)
William Lava (7)
Herschel Burke Gilbert (7)
Clifton Parker (6)
Bernard Herrmann (6)
Jean Wiener (6)
Michel Michelet (6)
Paul Misraki (6)
Friedrich Hollaender (5)
Carlo Rustichelli (5)
Nino Rota (5)
Ernst Toch (5)
Walter Scharf (5)
Julian Bautista (5)
Luis Hernández Bretón (5)
Bernhard Kaun (5)
Emil Newman (5)
Philip Green (5)
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Marlin Skiles (6)
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