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Cliff Martinez

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Cliff Martinez

Born Feb 5, 1954 · 72 years57 titles 51 movies · 6 TV
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Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Born

Feb 5, 1954

The Bronx, New York, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

4

Acting credits

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Directing

0

Writing

53

Other crew

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Career timeline

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1986 2 title(s)

1989 1 title(s)

1990 1 title(s)

1991 1 title(s)

1992 2 title(s)

1993 1 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1997 2 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

1999 1 title(s)

2000 1 title(s)

2002 2 title(s)

2003 1 title(s)

2004 1 title(s)

2005 2 title(s)

2006 1 title(s)

2008 2 title(s)

2009 2 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

2011 3 title(s)

2012 4 title(s)

2013 3 title(s)

2014 3 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2016 3 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2018 5 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2020 1 title(s)

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2023 2 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)