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Galt MacDermot

Highest Rated: 83% Hair (1979)

Lowest Rated: 72% Mistress (1992)

Birthday: Dec 19, 1928

Birthplace: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Galt MacDermot was most commonly known for his impressive musical talents. MacDermot began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), "Golden Apples of the Sun" (1971) with Percy Harkness and "Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1971). His music also appeared in "Rhinoceros" (1972) and the Doris Fishwick drama "Moon Over the Alley" (1980). In the eighties and the nineties, MacDermot's music increasingly set the pace for dramas, including films like "Tinamer" (1988) with Gilles Vigneault and Louise Portal and "Riding the Rails" (1989). MacDermot's music was also featured in the crime drama "Barbershop" (2002) with Ice Cube, the Nia Vardalos comedy "Connie and Carla" (2004) and the Johnny Depp box office smash family adventure "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005). His music was also featured in the Steve Carell box office smash dramatic comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005) and the dramatic period piece "Bobby" (2006) with Anthony Hopkins. MacDermot's music was most recently featured in the Lou Adler documentary "The Wrecking Crew" (2015).

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83% 87% Hair
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72% 38% Mistress
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Caged Terror
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67% Cotton Comes to Harlem
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Riding the Rails
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Filmography

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Credit
72% 38% Mistress Original Music $53.6K 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Riding the Rails Original Music - 1989
83% 87% Hair Writer,
Original Music
- 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Caged Terror Original Music - 1971
No Score Yet 67% Cotton Comes to Harlem Original Music - 1970