James Howard
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
- Birthday: June 9, 1951
An incredibly prolific and versatile composer, James Newton Howard scored a dizzying array of popular and critically acclaimed films, beginning with “Pretty Woman” (1990), “The Prince of Tides” (1991), “The Fugitive” (1993) and “Wyatt Earp” (1994), through “The Sixth Sense” (1999) “Batman Begins” (2005), “King Kong” (2005) and “I am Legend” (2007). Howard – who first sat down at a piano at age two – went on to earn a degree in music and orchestration from the University of Southern California’s School of Mu…more