Biography
Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers; April 10, 1945 – November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood during her career. Walker was one of the first female composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture (preceded by Suzanne Ciani for 1981's The Incredible Shrinking Woman) and according to the Los Angeles Times, is remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry. Walker often wrote her film scores entirely by hand, and always orchestrated and conducted her own scores herself. She won two Emmy Awards during her career, while the ASCAP Shirley Walker Award was created in her honor in 2014.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Edward Scissorhands (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1990
Batman (Original Motion Picture Score)
1989
A Goofy Movie
1995
Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1979
Cover Me
2016
Dick Tracy (Original Score)
1990
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm - The Animated Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993
Darkman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1990
Black Rain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1989
Child's Play 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
Batman Forever: Motion Picture Score Album
1995
Girls Are Out To Get You
1967
Credited work
349 releases · 51 albums · active 1967–2026
- Performance · 818
- Other credits · 275
- Engineering · 23
- Production · 13
- Mastering · 2
Studios: CBS Studio Center · The Automatt · Different Fur Studios · Club Front
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Danny Elfman
- Hans Zimmer
- Carmine Coppola
- Richard Band
- Brad Fiedel
- Charles Bernstein
- The Odessa Balalaikas