Personal Info

  • Known For

    Sound

  • Known Credits

    3

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    March 29, 1943 ( 79 years old )

  • Place of Birth

    Volos, Thessaly, Greece

  • Also Known As

    Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou

Vangelis

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).