# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-shore
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:28:48.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-shore"
name: "Howard Shore"
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description: "Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, conductor, and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, both of which are based on the fantasy works by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. He is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films."
tagline: "Canadian film score composer (born 1946)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump