Dan Wool

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Originally from St. Louis, Missouri where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based musician best known for his work as principal composer in film score soundtrack-group Pray for Rain.

Among Wool's film and television soundtrack credits are the scores to several Alex Cox films, including Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, The Winner, Death and the Compass, and Three Businessmen. He has also worked extensively on music and sound-design for advertising and as a producer and engineer for various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, The Mermen and Todd Stadtman.

Dan Wool is the brother of screen-writer/electrician Abbe Wool and stepbrother to Los Angeles musician Zander Schloss.

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(composer credits except as indicated)

    • Dispatches from Nicaragua (2008) (TV) Walker DVD Element
    • Searchers 2.0 (2007)
    • Journeyman (2006)
    • Missing Scenes (2006) Producer, Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
    • Repo Code (2006) Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
    • Harry Zen Stanton (2006) Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
    • Death and the Compass (2005) Commentary for UK DVD
    • Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra (2004) (DVD)
    • Mike Hama - Private Detective: Mike Hama Must Die! (2002) (TV)
    • Never Trust a Serial Killer (2002)
    • The Wednesday Woman (2000) (TV)
    • A Hard Look (2000) (TV)
    • Way Past Cool (2000) (TV) Score Mixer
    • Late Last Night (1999) (TV)
    • Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
    • Three Businessmen (1998)
    • The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1998) (TV)
    • Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998) (TV)
    • Since You've Been Gone (1998)
    • Standoff (1998)
    • Perfect Body (1997) (TV)
    • Any Mother's Son (1997) (TV)
    • Perversions of Science (1997) TV Series
    • The Three Lives of Karen (1997) (TV)
    • Pretty Poison (1996) (TV)
    • Sweet Dreams (1996) (TV)
    • Death and the Compass (1996) (TV)... aka Muerte y la Brújula, La (Mexico)
    • The Winner (1996) (Japanese directors-cut only)
    • A Boy Called Hate (1996)
    • Her Last Chance (1996) (TV)
    • She Fought Alone (1995) (TV) ... aka Scared by Love
    • My Dubious Sex Drive (1995)
    • White Mile (1994) (TV)
    • Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
    • Floundering (1994)
    • Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) (TV)
    • Key West (1993) TV Series
    • Roadside Prophets (1992)
    • Death and the Compass (1992) (TV) for UK broadcast
    • The Linguini Incident (1991) (restaurant source music)
    • Zandalee (1991)
    • No Secrets (1991)
    • Trust Me (1989)
    • Tales from the Crypt (1989) TV Series (episode "The Bribe")
    • Straight to Hell (1987)
    • Sid and Nancy (1986)

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