Ira Newborn
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Ira Newborn

Born 26 December 1949 · New York City, New York
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James Ira Newborn (born December 26, 1949) is an American musician known for scores for comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including many with director John Hughes.

Known for

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Sixteen Candles
Junior
Weird Science
Mallrats
Uncle Buck
Tales from the Crypt
ivans xtc.
Angels in the Infield
Autopsy: Through the Eyes of Death's Detectives
BASEketball
Bad Manners
High School High
The Late Shift
Mallrats
The Jerky Boys
Junior
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Innocent Blood
Brain Donors
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Short Time
My Blue Heaven
Uncle Buck
Collision Course
Cast the First Stone
Caddyshack II
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Amazon Women on the Moon
Dragnet
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Wise Guys
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Into the Night
Weird Science
Sixteen Candles
All Night Long
Xanadu
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