John Frizzell (composer)
American composer
John Frizzell (born 1966) is an American film and television composer, known for his work with Mike Judge. He scored Judge's films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Office Space, and Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022). He also composed the music for Mike Judge's television sitcom King of the Hill. John Frizzell has composed the film scores for over sixty films, over the course of his over three-decade-long career.
Film scores
1995
Whose Daughter Is She?
It Was Him or Us
1996
Deadly Pursuits
Undertow
Red Ribbon Blues
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
The Rich Man's Wife
Crime of the Century
The Empty Mirror
1997
Opposite Corners
Dante's Peak
Alien Resurrection
1998
Mafia! (as Gianni Frizzelli)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1999
Office Space
Teaching Mrs.
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