Jim Dooley

Emmy Award-winning composer/songwriter with a diverse repertoire spanning the film, television, video gaming and live theatrical industries. Dooley is currently scoring TNT’s hit drama The Last Ship with collaborator James S. Levine, and was recently the composer for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix.

Two projects featuring Jim’s music were also honored with Academy Award nominations, the animated short Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, and the live-action short The Buzkashi Boys.

In television, Dooley has written original music for the FX series Wilfred and ABC’s critically acclaimed series, Pushing Daisies, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Original Music Composition for a Series.

In film, Dooley composed for the thriller Obsessed starring Beyoncé Knowles. He has collaborated with Hans Zimmer on DreamWorks’ Gladiator and worked as an additional composer, arranger and orchestrator on Columbia Pictures’ The Da Vinci Code, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, DreamWorks’ The Ring, and many others.