James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 - June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator. He conducted a new version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare by Alfred Newman for films such as The War of the Roses (1989) and Class Action (1991).
Horner died on June 22, 2015, when his turboprop aircraft, a Short Tucano. with registration number N206PZ, crashed into the Los Padres National Forest near Ventucopa, California. Horner was the only occupant of the aircraft. when it took off after fueling at Camarillo Airport. Three days later, on June 25, the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the crash an accident.
Film scored[]
- Aliens (1986)
- Braveheart (1996)
- Titanic (1997)
- Avatar (2009)