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{{short description|American musician, composer, arranger (1937–2000)}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Jack Nitzsche
| image             = Jack_Nitzsche_1.jpg
| caption           = 
| background        = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name        = Bernard Alfred Nitzsche
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1937|04|22}}
| birth_place       = [[Chicago]], Illinois, U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2000|08|25|1937|04|22}}
| death_place       = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| genre             = {{flatlist|
* [[Pop music|Pop]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richieunterberger.com/nitzsche.html |title=LINER NOTES FOR JACK NITZSCHE'S THE LONELY SURFER |last=Richie |first=Unterberger |access-date=2022-02-27}}</ref>
* [[Rock music|rock]]
* [[surf music|surf]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lonely-surfer-mw0000012131 |title=The Lonely Surfer Review |last=Grady |first=Mary |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2022-02-25}}</ref>
* [[Classical music|classical]]
* [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]]
}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|[[Composer]]|[[Orchestration|orchestrator]]|[[Arrangement|arranger]]|[[session musician]]|[[record producer]]}}
| instrument        = {{hlist|[[Piano]]|[[Organ (music)|organ]]|[[vocals]]|[[saxophone]]}}
| years_active      = 1955–1998
| spouse            = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Gracia Ann May|1959|1978|end=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]|1982|1989|end=div}}
}}
| associated_acts   = [[The Nooney Rickett 4]], [[Sonny Bono]], [[Phil Spector]], [[The Wrecking Crew (music)|The Wrecking Crew]], [[Neil Young]], [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]], [[The Rolling Stones]], [[Willy DeVille]]
}}

'''Bernard Alfred''' "'''Jack'''" '''Nitzsche''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|iː|tʃ|i}} ''{{respell|NEECH|ee}}'';<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/nls/about/organization/standards-guidelines/mnop/#n|title=Say How: N|publisher=National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled|access-date=September 21, 2021}}</ref> April 22, 1937&nbsp;– August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer.<ref name="Larkin"/> He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer [[Phil Spector]], and went on to work with [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Neil Young]], and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'', ''[[The Exorcist]]'' and ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''. In 1983, he won the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] for co-writing "[[Up Where We Belong]]" with [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]].

== Life and career ==
Nitzsche was born in Chicago<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=906}}</ref> and raised on a farm in [[Newaygo, Michigan]], the son of German immigrants. He moved to Los Angeles in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/31/arts/jack-nitzsche-63-musician-and-oscar-winning-songwriter.html|title=Jack Nitzsche, 63, Musician And Oscar-Winning Songwriter|date=August 31, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 19, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He was hired by [[Sonny Bono]], who was at the time an [[Artists and repertoire|A&R]] executive at Specialty Records, as a [[Copyist|music copyist]]. While there, Nitzsche wrote a novelty hit titled "Bongo Bongo Bongo".<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/arranger-and-composer-who-worked-with-rolling-stones-1.1098607 |title=Arranger and composer who worked with Rolling Stones |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref> With Bono, Nitzsche wrote the song "[[Needles and Pins (song)|Needles and Pins]]" for [[Jackie DeShannon]], later recorded by [[The Searchers (band)|the Searchers]].<ref name="Larkin"/> His instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer"<ref name="Larkin"/> entered the ''Cash Box'' top 100 on August 3, 1963, and reached No. 37.<ref name="Cash Box September 14, 1963">{{cite web |url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19630914.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 9/14/63 |publisher=cashboxmagazine.com |date=September 14, 1963 |access-date=July 27, 2014 |archive-date=February 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228115140/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/19630914.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He became arranger and conductor for producer [[Phil Spector]],<ref name="Larkin"/> and orchestrated the [[Wall of Sound]] for almost all Spector's hits, perhaps best exemplified by "[[River Deep, Mountain High]]"<ref name="knockingonheaven">{{cite book |last=Talevski |first=Nick |pages=465–466 |year=2006 |title=Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=1846090911}}</ref> by [[Ike and Tina Turner]]. Nitzsche worked with [[Earl Palmer]], [[Leon Russell]], [[Roy Caton]], [[Glen Campbell]], [[Carol Kaye]] and [[Hal Blaine]] in [[The Wrecking Crew (music)|The Wrecking Crew]], the backing band for many pop acts such as [[the Beach Boys]] and [[the Monkees]]. Nitzsche arranged the [[Move Over Darling (song)|title song]] of [[Doris Day]]'s film ''[[Move Over, Darling]]'', which was a successful single on the pop charts of the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectropop.com/TerryMelcher/TerryMelcher5.htm |title=Prod. Terry Melcher Arr. & Cond. Jack Nitzsche Part Five – Doris Day and Gentle Soul |publisher=Spectropop.com |access-date=March 3, 2012}}</ref>

While organizing the music for the ''[[T.A.M.I. Show]]'' television special in 1964, he met [[the Rolling Stones]] and went on to play keyboards on their albums ''[[The Rolling Stones, Now!]]'' (''[[The Rolling Stones No. 2]]'' in the UK), ''[[Out of Our Heads]]'', ''[[Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'' and ''[[Between the Buttons]]'' as well as on their hit singles "[[Paint It, Black]]" and "[[Let's Spend the Night Together]]"; he also wrote the choral arrangements for "[[You Can't Always Get What You Want]]".<ref name="knockingonheaven" /> In 1968 he introduced the band to slide guitarist [[Ry Cooder]], a seminal influence on the band's 1969–1973 style.

On several Rolling Stones records, he was credited as player of the "Nitzsche-phone". In an obituary on ''[[Gadfly Online]]'', former Rolling Stones manager [[Andrew Loog Oldham]] explained the credit:

<blockquote>I made that up for the credits on those Stones albums—it was just a regular piano (or maybe an organ) mic'd differently. It was all part of this package that was created around the Stones. People believed it existed. The idea was meant to be: "My god, they've had to invent new instruments to capture this new sound they hear in their brains." And they were inventing fresh sounds with old toys—therefore, it deserved to be highlighted—it was the read-up of creation, of imagination—getting credit for a job well done.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/8-27-01/music-turning.html|title=Gadfly Online.|website=Gadflyonline.com}}</ref></blockquote>
He collaborated with [[Neil Young]],<ref name="knockingonheaven" /> beginning with producing "[[Expecting to Fly (song)|Expecting to Fly]]" by [[Buffalo Springfield]].<ref name="Larkin"/> In 1968, Nitzsche and Cooder co-produced Young's [[Neil Young (album)|eponymous solo debut]] with [[David Briggs (producer)|David Briggs]].<ref name="Larkin"/> As he was moving from baroque to folk and rock, Young hired Nitzsche for [[The Stray Gators]], the session musicians behind Young on ''[[Harvest (Neil Young album)|Harvest]]'' (1972) and ''[[Time Fades Away]]'' (1973).<ref name="Larkin"/>

With [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] in early 1970, Nitzsche played electric piano and, on the studio recording of "When You Dance, I Can Really Love," acoustic piano. Despite frequent clashes with [[Billy Talbot]] and [[Ralph Molina]], Nitzsche remained with the band after Young left in 1970. Nitzsche co-produced the band's 1971 [[Crazy Horse (album)|self-titled debut album]] and sang lead vocal on "Crow Jane Lady". He left Crazy Horse after the album's commercial failure.

While remaining prolific throughout the 1970s, he began to suffer from depression and problems connected to substance abuse. His relationship with Young began to deteriorate during the 1973 support tour for ''Harvest'' that yielded ''[[Time Fades Away]]''. During rehearsals, drummer [[Kenny Buttrey]] demanded a salary of $100,000 to compensate for lost session work, leading Nitzsche (with support from bassist [[Tim Drummond]]) to prevail upon Young to extend this salary to the other band members. Although Young reluctantly agreed, Nitzsche thought Young never got over it. Nitzsche frequently spewed obscenities into his vocal mike (leading Young's sound engineers to disconnect it) and often quarreled with [[David Crosby]], who joined the tour's final dates to assist with vocal harmonies. After he publicly castigated Young in a 1974 interview, the two men became estranged for several years and collaborated only sporadically.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/crawdaddy.htm|title=CRAWDADDY interview|website=Spectropop.com|access-date=October 5, 2019}}</ref> Later that year, he was dropped from the [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] roster after recording a song criticizing executive [[Mo Ostin]]. This period culminated in his arrest for allegedly breaking into the home of and then raping ex-girlfriend [[Carrie Snodgress]], formerly Young's companion, with a gun barrel on June 29, 1979. Snodgress was treated at the hospital for a bone fracture, cuts and bruises and had 18 stitches. The charge of rape by instrumentation (which carries a five-year sentence) was dismissed.<ref>{{Cite news|title=2 charges dismissed against man accused of raping actress |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FlBSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bXwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5186,6212706 |website=News.google.com|publisher= St. Petersburg Times|page= 4A |date= October 23, 1979|access-date=February 15, 2022}}</ref>

In 1979, Nitzsche produced [[Graham Parker]]'s album ''[[Squeezing Out Sparks]]''. Nitzsche produced four [[Mink DeVille]] albums beginning in the late 1970s: ''[[Cabretta]]'' (1977), ''[[Return to Magenta]]'' (1978) and ''[[Coup de Grâce (Mink DeVille album)|Coup de Grâce]]'' and Euro group ‘’[[Promises]]’’ (1981). Nitzsche said DeVille was the best singer he had ever worked with.<ref>Edmonds, Ben (2001) Liner notes to ''Cadillac Walk: The Mink DeVille Collection.'' Edmonds wrote, "During my last conversation with Nitzsche, only months before his death last year, the irascible old witch doctor couldn't stop taking about the new album he'd been plotting with Willy (DeVille) and how DeVille was the best singer he had ever worked with."</ref>

Nitzsche began to concentrate more on film music rather than pop music in the mid-1970s, becoming one of the more prolific film orchestrators in Hollywood during the period. In 1983, he received the Academy Award for Best Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from the 1982 film ''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'')<ref name=":0" /> with [[Will Jennings]] and [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]. Nitzsche had also worked on film scores throughout his career, such as his contributions to the Monkees movie ''[[Head (film)|Head]]'', the theme music from ''[[Village of the Giants]]'' (recycling an earlier single, "The Last Race") and the soundtracks for ''[[Performance (soundtrack)|Performance]]'' (1970), ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973),<ref name="knockingonheaven" /> ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1975),<ref name="knockingonheaven" /><ref name="invisible">{{cite book|author=MacDonald, Laurence E.|page=254|year=1998|title=The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810883970}}</ref> ''[[Hardcore (1979 film)|Hardcore]]'' (1979), ''[[The Razor's Edge (1984 film)|The Razor's Edge]]'' (1984) and ''[[Starman (film)|Starman]]'' (also 1984). He was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]] and a Grammy for his contributions to ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', his first of many studio projects with [[Scott Mathews]].<ref name="invisible" /><ref>Kim Bouwman (May 29, 2006). "Interview with Scott Mathews". Hit Quarters. Retrieved January 8, 2013.</ref>

In the mid-1990s, an inebriated Nitzsche was seen being arrested in Hollywood in an episode of the television show ''[[Cops (TV series)|Cops]]'' after brandishing a gun at some youths who had stolen his hat.{{fact|date=October 2024}} Attempting to explain himself to the arresting officers, he is heard exclaiming that he was an Academy Award winner. In 1997, he expressed interest in producing a comeback album for [[Link Wray]], although this never materialized due to their mutually declining health.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

In 2000, Nitzsche planned to work with [[Mercury Rev]] on ''[[All Is Dream]]''. Nitzsche intended to produce and orchestrate the record, having praised the band's 1998 album ''[[Deserter's Songs]]'', but he died before pre-production.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Worley|first1=Gail|title=Creating the Soundtrack For the Movies in Your Head: An Interview with Sean "Grasshopper" Mackiowiak of Mercury Rev|url=http://ink19.com/2001/08/magazine/interviews/mercury-rev-2|website=Ink19.com|date=10 August 2001 |access-date=May 2, 2017}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Nitzsche met his first wife, singer Gracia Ann May, while he was working for Capitol Records, who would later join [[the Blossoms]].<ref name=":0" /> His second wife was [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]], with whom he co-wrote the Academy Award winning song for 1982, "Up Where We Belong".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-nitzsche-mn0000101776/biography|title=Jack Nitzsche {{!}} Biography & History|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Married on March 19, 1982; they were married for seven years. 

He also had a relationship with actress [[Carrie Snodgress]],<ref name=":1" /> who was previously in a relationship with Neil Young. In 1979, Nitzsche was charged with threatening to kill her after he barged into her home and beat her with a handgun. He pleaded guilty to threatening her, was fined, and placed on three years' probation.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/business/carrie-snodgress-57-dies-starred-as-mad-housewife.html|title=Carrie Snodgress, 57, Dies; Starred as 'Mad Housewife'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 10, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19791023&id=YAxgAAAAIBAJ&pg=1194,617311|title = Carrie: It wasn't real rape|date = October 23, 1979|work = The Miami News|access-date = October 1, 2015|via = Google News|page = 6A|agency = Associated Press}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Nitzsche suffered a stroke in 1998 which ended his career.  He died in Hollywood's [[Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center#History|Queen of Angels – Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center]] in 2000 of [[cardiac arrest]] brought on by a recurring bronchial infection.<ref name="knockingonheaven" /><ref>Brown, Mick (2007). ''Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector'', pp. 28–29.  Random House, Inc.</ref> His interment was at [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]]. He was survived by one son.<ref name=":0" />

==Discography==
{{div col}}
*''The Lonely Surfer'' (Reprise, 1963)
*''Dance to the Hits of The Beatles'' (Reprise, 1964)
*''Chopin '66'' (Reprise, 1966)
*''St. Giles Cripplegate'' (Reprise, 1972)
* OSR ''[[Blue Collar (film)|Blue Collar]]'' (MCA, 1978)
* OSR ''[[The Razor's Edge (1984 film)|The Razor's Edge]]'' (Southern Cross, 1984)
* OSR ''[[The Hot Spot]]'' (Island, 1990)
* OSR ''[[The Indian Runner]]'' with [[David Lindley (musician)|David Lindley]] (Capitol, 1991)
* OSR ''Revenge'' (Silva America, 1995)

'''With [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]]'''
*''[[Crazy Horse (album)|Crazy Horse]]'' (Reprise, 1971)

'''With [[The Rolling Stones]]'''
*''[[The Rolling Stones No. 2]]'' (Decca, 1965)
*''[[Out of Our Heads]]'' (Decca, 1965)
*''[[Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'' (Decca, 1966)
*''[[Between the Buttons]]'' (Decca, 1967)
*''[[Let It Bleed]]'' [Decca (UK), London (US), 1969] (arranger only)
*''[[Sticky Fingers]]'' (Rolling Stones, 1971)
*''[[Emotional Rescue]]'' (Rolling Stones, 1980) (arranger only)

'''With [[Neil Young]]'''
*"[[Expecting to Fly (song)|Expecting to Fly]]" (from the [[Buffalo Springfield]] album ''[[Buffalo Springfield Again]]'', Atco, 1967)
*''[[Neil Young (album)|Neil Young]]'' (Reprise, 1968)
*''[[After the Gold Rush]]'' (Reprise, 1970)
*''[[Harvest (Neil Young album)|Harvest]]'' (Reprise, 1972)
*''[[Time Fades Away]]'' (Reprise, 1973)
*''[[Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)|Tonight's the Night]]'' (Reprise, 1975)
*''[[Life (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)|Life]]'' (Geffen, 1987)
*''[[Harvest Moon (album)|Harvest Moon]]'' (Reprise, 1992) (arranger only)
*''[[Live at the Fillmore East (Neil Young album)|Live at the Fillmore East]]'' (Reprise, 2006, recorded 1970)
*"Cinnamon Girl" (live at the Fillmore East – March 7, 1970) (download-only single) (Reprise, 2009, recorded 1970)
*''[[Tuscaloosa (album)|Tuscaloosa]]'' (Reprise, 2019, recorded 1973)
include previously unreleased material featuring Nitzsche:
*''[[The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972]]'' (Reprise, 2009)
*''[[Neil Young Archives Volume II: 1972–1976]]'' (Reprise, 2020)
{{div col end}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
!Dir.
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1962
|''[[Girls! Girls! Girls!]]''
|[[Norman Taurog]]
|[[Piano player lounge band (uncredited)]]
|-
|1965
|''[[Village of the Giants]]''
|[[Bert I. Gordon]]
|with [[The Beau Brummels]]
|-
|1970
|''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]''
|[[Donald Cammell]]<br>[[Nicolas Roeg]]
|with [[Jagger/Richards]]
|-
|1972
|''[[Greaser's Palace]]''
| rowspan="2" |[[Robert Downey Sr.]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1973
|''[[Sticks and Bones (film)|Sticks and Bones]]''
|[[Television film]]
|-
|''[[The Exorcist]]''
|[[William Friedkin]]
|with [[Mike Oldfield]]
|-
|1975
|''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''
|[[Miloš Forman]]
|Nominated – [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated – [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media]]
|-
|1977
|''[[Heroes (1977 film)|Heroes]]''
|[[Jeremy Kagan]]
|
|-
|1978
|''[[Blue Collar (film)|Blue Collar]]''
| rowspan="2" |[[Paul Schrader]]
|Nominated – [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1979
|''[[Hardcore (1979 film)|Hardcore]]''
|
|-
|''[[When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (film)|When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?]]''
|[[Milton Katselas]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1980
|''[[Cruising (film)|Cruising]]''
|[[William Friedkin]]
|with [[Germs (band)|Germs]]
Nominated – [[Stinkers Bad Movie Awards|Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Intrusive Musical Score]]
|-
|''[[Heart Beat (film)#Musical score and soundtrack|Heart Beat]]''
|[[John Byrum]]
|
|-
|1981
|''[[Cutter's Way]]''
|[[Ivan Passer]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1982
|[[Personal Best (film)|''Personal Best'']]
|[[Robert Towne]]
|with Jill Fraser
|-
|''[[Cannery Row (film)|Cannery Row]]''
|[[David S. Ward]]
|
|-
|''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]''
|[[Taylor Hackford]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]<br>[[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song]]<br>[[BAFTA Award|BAFTA Award for Best Original Song]]<br>Nominated – [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]<br>Nominated – [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Music]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1983
|''[[Without a Trace (1983 film)|Without a Trace]]''
|[[Stanley R. Jaffe]]
|
|-
|''[[Breathless (1983 film)|Breathless]]''
|[[Jim McBride]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |1984
|''[[Windy City (film)|Windy City]]''
|[[Armyan Bernstein]]
|
|-
|''[[The Razor's Edge (1984 film)|The Razor's Edge]]''
|[[John Byrum]]
|
|-
|''[[Starman (film)|Starman]]''
|[[John Carpenter]]
|Nominated for:<br>[[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |1985
|''[[Stripper (film)|Stripper]]''
|Jerome Gray
|[[Documentary film]]
|-
|''[[The Jewel of the Nile]]''
|[[Lewis Teague]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |1986
|''[[9½ Weeks]]''
|[[Adrian Lyne]]
|
|-
|''[[Stand by Me (film)|Stand by Me]]''
|[[Rob Reiner]]
|
|-
|''[[The Whoopee Boys]]''
|[[John Byrum]]
|with Udi Harpaz
|-
|''[[Streets of Gold (film)|Streets of Gold]]'' 
|[[Joe Roth]]
|
|-
|1988
|''[[The Seventh Sign]]''
|[[Carl Schultz]]
|
|-
|1989
|''[[Next of Kin (1989 film)|Next of Kin]]''
|[[John Irvin]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |1990
|''[[The Last of the Finest]]''
|[[John Mackenzie (film director)|John Mackenzie]]
|with [[Michael Hoenig]] & [[Mick Taylor]]
|-
|''[[Revenge (1990 film)|Revenge]]''
|[[Tony Scott]]
|
|-
|''[[The Hot Spot]]'' 
|[[Dennis Hopper]]
|
|-
|''[[Mermaids (1990 film)|Mermaids]]''<ref name="knockingonheaven" />
|[[Richard Benjamin]]
|
|-
|1991
|''[[The Indian Runner]]''
|[[Sean Penn]]
|
|-
|1994
|''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]''
|[[Tony Richardson]]
|
|-
|1995
|''[[The Crossing Guard]]''
|[[Sean Penn]]
|
|}

== References ==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche The Sorcerer's Apprentice] – fan site
*[http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/discography.htm Jack Nitzsche] discography at Spectropop

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