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Hummie Mann

Two-time Emmy-Award winning Canadian composer/arranger Hummie Mann has scored feature and television projects for many of Hollywood’s top directors including: Mel Brooks, Jonathan Kaplan, Norman Jewison, Peter Bogdanovich, Jim Abrahams, Rob Reiner, Simon Wincer and Joe Dante.

Among his credits are the feature films Thomas and the Magic Railroad, the IMAX film Cyberworld 3D, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Year of the Comet, Falltime, Benefit of the Doubt, and the upcoming Wooly Boys, starring Peter Fonda and Kris Kristofferson.

Some of his credits for television include the mini-series P.T. Barnum, the mini-series remake of In Cold Blood, the HBO film The Second Civil War, the Showtime movie Rescuers: Tales of Courage - Two Women, Meatloaf: To Hell and Back for MTV, and the CBS movie ...first do no harm (starring Meryl Streep). Mann was honored with his second Emmy Award in 1996 for an episode of Showtime’s Picture Windows called Language of the Heart, a love story about a street musician and an aspiring ballerina.

Prior to becoming a full time composer, he worked on many other films in a variety of capacities: he conducted the scores to City Slickers and The Addams Family; co-produced the scores to Sleepless in Seattle and A Few Good Men; and orchestrated on many films including Sister Act, Misery, and Dying Young.

In February of 1998 he was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus award from Berklee College of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music.

Hummie Mann is a founding member of the SCA.