Tag : Craig Safan

Craig Safan on Scoring Comedy

Craig Safan started out in film music while in college in the early 1970s. Once he made the break to Hollywood with THE GREAT SMOKEY ROADBLOCK (1976), he was off composing a number of teen-oriented comedies, including THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING TRAINING, and CORVETTE SUMMER. On the other side of the coin, he…

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Craig Safan and The Last Starfighter

Craig Safan has received both critical and popular acclaim for his score to 1984’S THE LAST STARFIGHTER. His prolific career, however, includes a variety of different projects for film, television and theatre. Like many young composers his first major film came through New World Pictures with THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE. Since then he has…

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