
Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Known Credits
52
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-03-29
Day of Death
2022-05-17 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Volos, Thessaly, Greece
Also Known As
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou
Vangelis
Biography
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, best known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981), and composing scores for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004).