John Debney
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt.
Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004).
The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979.
After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler.
In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5.
Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators.
Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas.
He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006.
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Films (189)
L'Homme à la Hotte
2026 · Original Music Composer
Toi, Moi et la Toscane
2026 · Original Music Composer
Bob l'éponge, le film : Un pour tous, tous pirates !
2025 · Original Music Composer
Dans tes rêves
2025 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Horizon : Une saga américaine - Chapitre 2
2024 · Original Music Composer
La cadette de l'espace
2024 · Original Music Composer
Horizon : Une saga américaine - Chapitre 1
2024 · Original Music Composer
Garfield : Héros malgré lui
2024 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Sous la promenade
2023 · Original Music Composer
Spy Kids : Armageddon
2023 · Original Music Composer
Hypnotique
2023 · Additional Music
Bad Luck Spot!
2023 · Music
Tom Brady à tout prix
2023 · Original Music Composer
Abracadabra 2
2022 · Original Music Composer
Coup de Chance
2022 · Original Music Composer
Marie-moi
2022 · Original Music Composer
American Underdog
2021 · Original Music Composer
Maman, j’ai raté l’avion ! (Ça recommence)
2021 · Original Music Composer
Clifford
2021 · Original Music Composer
Merveilles imaginaires
2020 · Original Music Composer
Jingle Jangle : Un Noël enchanté
2020 · Original Music Composer
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020 · Music Man
Asteroid Hunters
2020 · Original Music Composer
J'y crois encore
2020 · Original Music Composer
Lake of Death
2019 · Original Music Composer
Les sextuplés
2019 · Original Music Composer
La vérité sur Brian Banks
2019 · Original Music Composer
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019 · Original Music Composer
Débauche à Miami
2019 · Original Music Composer
N'est-ce pas romantique
2019 · Original Music Composer
Douce nuit - Une chanson pour le monde
2018 · Self
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018 · Self
Opération Beyrouth
2018 · Original Music Composer
Chiefs
2018 · Original Music Composer
Le maître de la scène
2017 · Original Music Composer
Flint
2017 · Original Music Composer
Un Cœur à prendre
2017 · Original Music Composer
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017 · Self
Grandir
2016 · Original Music Composer
Scrat Dans L'Espace
2016 · Original Music Composer
Ligue des Dieux
2016 · Original Music Composer
L'Âge de glace : Les Lois de l'Univers
2016 · Original Music Composer
Joyeuse fête des mères
2016 · Original Music Composer
Le Livre de la jungle
2016 · Original Music Composer
Le Jeune Messie
2016 · Original Music Composer
Brothers
2015 · Original Music Composer
Bob l'éponge, le film : Un héros sort de l'eau
2015 · Original Music Composer
Hysteria
2014 · Original Music Composer
Un cordonnier bien chaussé
2014 · Original Music Composer
Blackout total
2014 · Original Music Composer
Le Pari
2014 · Original Music Composer
The After
2014 · Original Music Composer
Best Worst Friends
2013 · Original Music Composer
Jobs
2013 · Original Music Composer
L'appel
2013 · Original Music Composer
Alex Cross: En la mente del Asesino
2012 · Original Music Composer
Les Trois Corniauds
2012 · Original Music Composer
Mille mots
2012 · Original Music Composer
Happy New Year
2011 · Original Music Composer
Secret Identity
2011 · Original Music Composer
La maison de rêve
2011 · Original Music Composer
Échange standard
2011 · Original Music Composer
Sex Friends
2011 · Original Music Composer
Yogi l'ours
2010 · Original Music Composer
Les Prédateurs
2010 · Original Music Composer
Iron Man 2
2010 · Original Music Composer
Snowmen
2010 · Original Music Composer
Valentine's Day
2010 · Original Music Composer
Les 2 font la ''père''
2009 · Original Music Composer
Les Zintrus
2009 · Original Music Composer
La Lapidation de Soraya M.
2009 · Original Music Composer
Hannah Montana, le film
2009 · Original Music Composer
Palace pour chiens
2009 · Original Music Composer
La copine de mon meilleur ami
2008 · Original Music Composer
Un papá muy poderoso
2008 · Original Music Composer
Appelez-moi Dave
2008 · Original Music Composer
La Momie : La Tombe de l'empereur Dragon
2008 · Additional Music
The Seed
2008 · Music
Evan tout-puissant
2007 · Original Music Composer
Mère-fille, mode d'emploi
2007 · Original Music Composer
By His Wounds We Are Healed: Making 'The Passion of the Christ'
2007 · Music
Idlewild gangsters club
2006 · Original Music Composer
La Ferme en folie
2006 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
No Hay Héroe Pequeño
2006 · Original Music Composer
Lucas, fourmi malgré lui
2006 · Original Music Composer
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006 · Self
Keeping Up With The Steins
2006 · Original Music Composer
Treize à la douzaine 2
2005 · Original Music Composer
Zathura : Une aventure spatiale
2005 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Petit poulet
2005 · Original Music Composer
Dreamer : Inspiré d'une histoire vraie
2005 · Original Music Composer
Les aventures de Sharkboy et Lavagirl
2005 · Original Music Composer
Duma
2005 · Original Music Composer
Sin City
2005 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Baby-Sittor
2005 · Original Music Composer
Un Noël de folie !
2004 · Original Music Composer
Elf: That's a Wrap
2004 · Self
Un mariage de princesse
2004 · Original Music Composer
Fashion Maman
2004 · Original Music Composer
Mon voisin le tueur 2
2004 · Original Music Composer
La Passion du Christ
2004 · Original Music Composer
Bienvenue à Mooseport
2004 · Original Music Composer
Elfe
2003 · Original Music Composer
Bruce tout-puissant
2003 · Original Music Composer
Le Rappeur de Malibu
2003 · Original Music Composer
Une nana au poil
2002 · Original Music Composer
Le Smoking
2002 · Original Music Composer
The Sweatbox
2002 · Self
Swimfan, la fille de la piscine
2002 · Original Music Composer
Spy Kids 2 - Espions en herbe
2002 · Original Music Composer
Le Roi Scorpion
2002 · Original Music Composer
Apparitions
2002 · Original Music Composer
Chiens des neiges
2002 · Original Music Composer
Jimmy Neutron : Un Garçon Génial
2001 · Original Music Composer
Princesse malgré elle
2001 · Original Music Composer
Comme chiens et chats
2001 · Original Music Composer
Beautés empoisonnées
2001 · Original Music Composer
Espions en herbe
2001 · Original Music Composer
Spot
2001 · Original Music Composer
Kuzco, l'empereur mégalo
2000 · Original Music Composer
Running Mates
2000 · Original Music Composer
Les Remplaçants
2000 · Original Music Composer
Stars in Love
2000 · Original Music Composer
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000 · Music
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999 · Original Music Composer
La Fin des temps
1999 · Original Music Composer
Ub Iwerks : La Main derrière la Souris
1999 · Music
Elmo au pays des grincheux
1999 · Original Music Composer
Dick : Les Coulisses de la présidence
1999 · Original Music Composer
Inspecteur Gadget
1999 · Original Music Composer
Komodo
1999 · Original Music Composer
G-Saviour
1999 · Original Music Composer
Une Fille qui a du chien
1999 · Original Music Composer
Mon martien bien-aimé
1999 · Original Music Composer
Sacré Père Noël
1998 · Original Music Composer
Paulie, le perroquet qui parlait trop
1998 · Original Music Composer
Justice League of America
1997 · Original Music Composer
Souviens-toi… l'été dernier
1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Menteur, menteur
1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Relic
1997 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Carpool
1996 · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who : Le Seigneur du temps
1996 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Getting Away with Murder
1996 · Original Music Composer
Chameleon
1996 · Original Music Composer
L'Île aux pirates
1995 · Original Music Composer
Mort Subite
1995 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Mickey Perd la Tête
1995 · Original Music Composer
Kansas
1995 · Original Music Composer
L'honneur de la cavalerie
1995 · Original Music Composer
L'invité
1995 · Original Music Composer
Les petits géants
1994 · Original Music Composer
Croc-Blanc 2 : Le mythe du loup blanc
1994 · Original Music Composer
Los Picapiedra: A Hollyrock por un bebé
1993 · Original Music Composer
The Town Santa Forgot
1993 · Original Music Composer
El Árbol de la Noche de Brujas
1993 · Original Music Composer
SeaQuest DSV
1993 · Original Music Composer
For Love and Glory
1993 · Original Music Composer
Praying Mantis
1993 · Original Music Composer
Hocus Pocus : Les Trois Sorcières
1993 · Original Music Composer
Deux doigts sur la gachette
1993 · Original Music Composer
Class of '61
1993 · Original Music Composer
Jonny's Golden Quest
1993 · Original Music Composer
Los Picapiedra: La Boda De Pebbles
1993 · Original Music Composer
Sunstroke
1992 · Original Music Composer
Still Not Quite Human
1992 · Original Music Composer
Into the Badlands
1991 · Original Music Composer
A Seduction in Travis County
1991 · Original Music Composer
The Face of Fear
1990 · Original Music Composer
Les Jetsons : Le film
1990 · Original Music Composer
The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour
1990 · Original Music Composer
The Eyes of the Panther
1989 · Music
Trenchcoat in Paradise
1989 · Original Music Composer
Carmilla
1989 · Music
The Turn of the Screw
1989 · Music
Seven Hours to Judgment
1988 · Original Music Composer
Not Since Casanova
1988 · Original Music Composer
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
1988 · Original Music Composer
The Wild Pair
1987 · Original Music Composer
Yogi's Great Escape
1987 · Songs
DTV: Monster Hits
1987 · Additional Music
The Day My Kid Went Punk
1987 · Original Music Composer
Sport Goofy in Soccermania
1987 · Music
DTV 'Doggone' Valentine
1987 · Original Music Composer
Rose Petal Place: Real Friends
1985 · Original Music Composer
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984 · Original Music Composer
Fitness and Me: Why Exercise?
1984 · Original Music Composer
Backstage at Disney
1983 · Music
Deer in the Works
1980 · Music
The Strongest Man in the World
1975 · John (Student)
Séries (20)
Oswald
2027 · Original Music Composer
The Gray House
2026 · Original Music Composer
Les Petits Champions : Game Changers
2021 · Original Music Composer
El Joven Sheldon
2017 · Original Music Composer
The Orville
2017 · Music
Santa Clarita Diet
2017 · Music
Texas Rising
2015 · Music
American Odyssey
2015 · Music
Point of Honor
2015 · Music
Houdini, l'illusionniste
2014 · Music
Bonnie & Clyde
2013 · Original Music Composer
Hatfields & McCoys
2012 · Original Music Composer
Against the Grain
1993 · Music
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Music
Les Tiny Toons
1990 · Music
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
1988 · Sound
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · Music
Disney Family Album
1984 · Main Title Theme Composer
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Music
Fame
1982 · Original Music Composer