James Dooley
James Michael Dooley (born August 22, 1976) is an American film score composer.
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James Dooley

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- Name
- James Dooley
- Birth Name
- James Michael Dooley
- Born
- 22 August 1976
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- New York University · Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and and Human Development · St. Francis Preparatory School
- Honours
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
- Languages
- English
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James Michael Dooley (born August 22, 1976) is an American film score composer.
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James Dooley was an American composer. The composer was born in New York City. James Dooley studied at New York University and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Languages used include English.
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Dooley worked across composer and film score composer. This article rests on 91 catalogued compositions, 3 published texts, 32 issued recordings, 1 digitised documents and 14 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
James Dooley studied at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and St. Francis Preparatory School. The recorded working language is English. Distinctions recorded are Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).

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Key facts
• Name — James Dooley • Birth Name — James Michael Dooley • Alias — Jim Dooley • Born — 22 August 1976 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — Composer • Website — jimdooley.com
Biography
Biography
Dooley was born in New York City and studied music at New York University, majoring in music composition. After finishing the university he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied music with prolific film score composers Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. In 1999, Dooley started working for Hans Zimmer as his chief technical assistant. He works in Santa Monica in Zimmer's film music studio Remote Control Productions (formerly Media Ventures). He composed, arranged, and orchestrated music for films like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Da Vinci Code. He also composed music for inFAMOUS 2, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and the Epic Mickey series and has collaborated with Celldweller and Tarja Turunen. He released his debut album, Veiled Nation, in 2013.
TV
TV
• Year — Title — Notes • 2001 — Area 52 — TV movie • 2002 — ESPN – "Citation" • ESPN – "Richard Flowers" • Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr — TV movie documentary • 2003 — Dean Kamen • The Louisiana Purchase — TV movie • Frontline/World — TV series documentary, 2 episodes • Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s — TV movie documentary • Space Ghost Coast to Coast — 1 episode • 2003–2004 — Skin — Mini-series • 2004 — |Life on Liberty Street — TV movie • Hollywood Mom's Mystery • 2005 — Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't • Detective • Ordinary Miracles • The Contender • 2006 — What About Brian — 2 episodes • 2007–2009 — Pushing Daisies • 2009 — Crisis: New York Under Water — TV movie • 2010 — Neighbors from Hell • 2011 — Wilfred • Franklin & Bash — 2 episodes • Poe — TV movie • 2012 — Best Friends Forever • Mockingbird Lane — TV special • Emily Owens M.D. — 3 episodes • 2013–2014 — Doctor Who Online Adventures — TV series short, 3 episodes • 2013 — Jinxed — TV movie • Murder in Manhattan • 2014 — Deliverance Creek • Dead Boss • 2015 — Barbie in Princess Power • Splitting Adam • Bad Blood • 2017 — A Midsummer's Nightmare • 2018 — |A Tale of Two Corey's • 2014–2018 — The Last Ship • 2018–2019 — A Series of Unfortunate Events • 2019 — Kim Possible — TV movie
Video games
Video games
• Year — Title — Notes • 2005 — Dead to Rights II • SOCOM 3 U.S. Navy SEALs • SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo • 2006 — SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault • SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2 • 2007 — The Simpsons Game — With Hans Zimmer, Chris Lennertz and Tim Wynn • Def Jam: Icon — Technical staff • Bee Movie Game — Cinematic score • 2009 — Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier • Infamous • Nerf N-Strike • Monsters vs. Aliens • 2010 — Epic Mickey • Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions • 2011 — Infamous 2 — With Bryan Mantia, Melissa Reese, Galactic and Jonathan Mayer • 2012 — Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two — With Mike Himelstein • Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion — With Sean Beeson • 2013 — BioShock Infinite — Special thanks • Knack • 2014 — Disney Infinity – Marvel Super Heroes • 2015 — Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition – Starter Pack
Other
Other
• Year — Title — Notes • 2008-present — The Simpsons Ride — Universal Studios Theme Park Attraction • 2014-2016 — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: Legends — National tour
Early life and training
Early life and training
James Dooley was born on 22 August 1976 in New York City. Dooley held the nationality of United States. Dooley was educated at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and St. Francis Preparatory School.
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Places
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James Dooley was born at New York City.
Birthplace
New York City.
Birth place
Works documented in more than one form
Catalogued output
Works documented in more than one form
3 titles are catalogued under more than one form, which is to say the registers hold them both as a work and as a distinct object, score, recording or edition. Where a title is documented in several forms the evidence behind it is correspondingly wider, and the article treats those forms as separate records of the same work rather than as separate works.
Mockingbird Lane
2012 — catalogued as television film and television series
Ariel's Beginning
2008 — catalogued as film and animated film
First Flight
2006 — catalogued as film and animated short film
Compositions
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 91 further compositions are catalogued under Dooley's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. Art Lesson / Where Is He?
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Chuck's News Flash
Anti-Pesto to the Rescue
Arrival on Mars
A Grand Day Out
Change of Heart
Deck the Halls (non-choir)
Cod and Stingwell
Carol of the Bells
Dim Sum Meet
Cod & Olive Interview
Don't Mess With the Pie Hos
The complete catalogue · 31
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Chuck's News Flash
Anti-Pesto to the Rescue
Arrival on Mars
A Grand Day Out
Change of Heart
Deck the Halls (non-choir)
Cod and Stingwell
Carol of the Bells
Dim Sum Meet
Cod & Olive Interview
Don't Mess With the Pie Hos
Dinner With Sasha
Black Sun Drone
Bless You, Anti-Pesto
A Magical Tale
Countdown to Black
Deck the Halls
A New Direction
Deep String Drone
Desert Chicken Pox
Black Fairy (Non-Choir)
Beach Race / Denied
40 Years Ago
Dark Beauty Castle
At All Costs
Arrival at Lonesome Manor
Carol of the Bells (non-choir)
Chasing The Asset
Chord of the Rings
Cry in Silence
Films and moving-image works, 2005–2020
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works, 2005–2020
These entries are catalogued as moving-image works. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 13 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 30 titles in all, from 2005 to 2020.
26 films carry dates between 2005 and 2020
The run opens with The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper and closes with Playdate with Destiny
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
2005
Impy's Island
2006
When a Stranger Calls
2006
The Simpsons Game
2007
Daddy Day Camp
2007
Impy's Wonderland
2008
Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation
2008
Nerf N-Strike
2008
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
2009
Obsessed
2009
The complete catalogue · 25
26 films carry dates between 2005 and 2020
The run opens with The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper and closes with Playdate with Destiny
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
2005
Impy's Island
2006
When a Stranger Calls
2006
The Simpsons Game
2007
Daddy Day Camp
2007
Impy's Wonderland
2008
Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation
2008
Nerf N-Strike
2008
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
2009
Obsessed
2009
Epic Mickey
2010
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
2010
InFamous 2
2011
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
2012
The Forger
2012
Buzkashi Boys
2012
Jinxed
2013
The Last Ship
2014
Splitting Adam
2015
Heartthrob
2017
Kim Possible
2019
Secret Obsession
2019
Playdate with Destiny
2020
Film
Film
• Year — Title — Director(s) — Notes • 1999 — The Good Man's Sin — Peter Sullivan — Short film • 2000 — Bit Players — Andy Berman — Short film, • Gladiator — Ridley Scott — Assistant to Hans Zimmer • Mission: Impossible II — John Woo • An Everlasting Piece — Barry Levinson • 2001 — Pearl Harbor — Michael Bay • Riding in Cars with Boys — Penny Marshall • Hannibal — Ridley Scott — Additional music, with Hans Zimmer • Black Hawk Down • The Clayfather — Ryan Nellis & Jose Solis — • 2002 — Untitled: 003-Embryo — Mike Goedecke — Short film, • Papal Cab — Kevin Susman — • The Ring — Gore Verbinski — Additional music, with Hans Zimmer • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron — Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook — Additional arrangements • The Time Machine — Simon Wells • 2003 — Agua Dulce — Edgar Pablos — Short • Come Lovely — Jake Davis • Things Fall Apart — Yaniv Raz • Life After War — Brian Knappenberger — Documentary • Something's Gotta Give — Nancy Meyers — Additional music • Matchstick Men — Ridley Scott • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Gore Verbinski • Tears of the Sun — Antoine Fuqua • 2004 — Thunderbirds — Jonathan Frakes • King Arthur — Antoine Fuqua • Frenching — Kellie Martin — Short film • 2005 — The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper — Gary Trousdale • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Nick Park and Steve Box — Additional music • Madagascar — Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath • The Amityville Horror — Andrew Douglas • 2006 — The Da Vinci Code — Ron Howard • First Flight — Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson — Short film • Impy's Island — Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe • When a Stranger Calls — Simon West • 2007 — Daddy Day Camp — Fred Savage • The Simpsons Movie — David Silverman — Additional music • Electroland — Gabriel London — Documentary short • The Mars Underground — Scott Gill — Documentary, • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Gore Verbinski — Additional arrangements • Young@Heart — Stephen Walker — Documentary, wrote and performed "Crimson Joy" • 2008 — Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa — Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath — Additional music • Impy's Island 2 — Reinhard Klooss & Holger Tappe — • Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation — James Ryan — Video • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning — Peggy Holmes • 2009 — Obsessed — Steve Shill • 2011 — Son of Mourning — Yaniv Raz • The Forger — Lawrence Roeck • 2012 — Slumber Party Slaughter — Rebekah Chaney • The Longest Daycare — David Silverman — Short, additional music • Buzkashi Boys — Sam French — Short • 2013 — Barbie in the Pink Shoes — Owen Hurley — Video • 2014 — 10 Cent Pistol — Michael C. Martin • Barbie: The Pearl Princess — Ezekiel Norton — Video • The Simpsons Take the Bowl — David Silverman and Mike Anderson • 2015 — Toxin — Jason Dudek • 2016 — Fifty Shades of Black — Michael Tiddes • Satanic — Jeffrey G. Hunt • 2017 — Heartthrob — Chris Sivertson • 2019 — Secret Obsession — Peter Sullivan • 2020 — Playdate with Destiny — David Silverman — Short • TBA — Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets — Yaniv Raz — Post-production
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works without a settled date
4 further films are catalogued under Dooley's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
Best Friends Forever
Neighbors from Hell
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Dooley's work has been published in sound, not what Dooley made. 32 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 2005 to 2025. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2010s are the densest decade of publication, with 15 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Reveal
2017
A Christmas Caper
2005
Time
2021
Orchestral Series, Volume 2: Action/Adventure/Suspense
2006
Untold
2012
Carmel-By-The-Sea
2011
Hypnotic Patriotic
2019
Fairytale Frights and Nursery Nightmares
2021
My Hometown
2007
SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs / SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault
2014
Epic Mickey Original Game Score
2010
Original Video Game Soundtrack
2025
Urmel voll in Fahrt (Das Original-Hörspiel zum Kinofilm)
2008
Wonderstruck - Position Music Orchestral Series Vol
Coming Soon - Position Music Orchestral Series, Vol
Veiled Nation
2013
Fifty Shades of Black
2016
Creepy Christmas
2020
The Mars Underground
2005
James Dooley (Advance)
2014
Cinematic Spirituals
2021
Pushing Daisies
2008
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Original Game Score
2012
Season 2
2011
Fear, Dread, Panic
2020
Orchestral Series, Volume 4: Action/Adventure/Fantasy
2009
Oceana
2018
Where the work is held
Recognition and collections
James Dooley received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).
Awards
• Year — Award — Recipient • 2008 — Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) — Pushing Daisies (for "Pigeon") • 2008 — Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best TV Composer — Pushing Daisies Season 1 • 2009 — ASCAP Award for Top-Grossing Film — Obsessed • 2009 — G.A.N.G. Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album — inFamous
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References
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References
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q327904: James DooleyWikimedia Foundation
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James Dooley studied at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and St.
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