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JOHN TOWNER WILLIAMS

An American composer, conductor, and pianist
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Williams has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in movie history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and the first three Harry Potter films.

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He was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, the son of Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quint

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In 1948, the his family moved to Los Angeles. John attended North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950. He later attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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In 1952, he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force. In the service, he conducted and arranged music for The U.S. Air Force Band. After his Air Force service ended in 1955, he moved to New York City and entered The Juilliard School.

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After his studies at Juilliard, and the Eastman School of Music, he returned to Los Angeles, where he began working at film studios. He started playing piano for movies and television

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John Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 22 Grammy Awards. He has 50 Academy Award nominations, and he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time

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At his 80th birthday celebration.
"I played pretty well," Williams says. "I did hear players like John Browning and Van Cliburn around the place, who were also students of Rosina's, and I thought to myself, 'If that's the competition, I think I'd better be a composer!' "

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