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Michael Skloff

  • Music Department
  • Composer
  • Actor
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Michael Skloff
Michael Skloff is best known as a TV & Film composer. Most notably he wrote the theme song "I'll Be There For You" for the hit NBC comedy series FRIENDS, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. He was also nominated for an Emmy for the main title theme to HBO's comedy series DREAM ON. For the past eight years he and his son Sam KS have been the co- composers for the popular Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE. Mr. Skloff also continues to write 'art' music for different applications including music for the stage, worship, concert halls, and musical theatre. He's the composer of the musical stage adaptation of the Dudley Moore hit movie "ARTHUR"; and was vocal arranger and co-producer of Randy Newman's songs in Disney's "JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH". As a film score composer, he's worked with directors: John Landis, Jason Gould, Jason Alexander, Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain, among others. Michael is also widely known as a performer and music director, having appeared on the Tonight Show and the Jerry Lewis Telethon as well as Music Director for Jenifer Lewis, Jasmine Guy, Jason Alexander, Bruce Vilanch, to name just a few. And for a short time he successfully produced and released a number of artists' work on his former label, Electric Monkey Records. Michael received BFA in Music Composition from Carnegie-Mellon University and his MFA Performer-Composer from California Institute of The Arts.
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    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 19 wins & 3 nominations total

    Known for

    Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
    Friends
    8.9
    TV Series
    • Music Department
    Kirstie Alley in Veronica's Closet (1997)
    Veronica's Closet
    5.8
    TV Series
    • Music Department
    Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, and Will Poulter in We're the Millers (2013)
    We're the Millers
    7.0
    • Soundtrack("I'll Be There For You")
    • 2013
    Christina Applegate, Bruno Campos, Eric Lloyd, Jennifer Milmore, Kevin Rahm, Liza Snyder, and Darryl Theirse in Jesse (1998)
    Jesse
    6.0
    TV Series
    • Music Department(theme)

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    • Independent Lens (1999)
      Independent Lens
      8.1
      TV Series
      • music arranger
      • music producer
      • 2010
    • Blessed Is the Match (2008)
      Blessed Is the Match
      7.0
      • additional music arranger
      • additional music producer
      • 2008
    • Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
      Friends
      8.9
      TV Series
      • composer: additional music
      • composer: title theme
      • composer: theme music ...
      • 1994–2004
    • Friends: The One Before the Last One - Ten Years of Friends (2004)
      Friends: The One Before the Last One - Ten Years of Friends
      8.6
      TV Special
      • composer: title theme
      • 2004
    • Christina Applegate, Bruno Campos, Eric Lloyd, Jennifer Milmore, Kevin Rahm, Liza Snyder, and Darryl Theirse in Jesse (1998)
      Jesse
      6.0
      TV Series
      • composer: theme
      • 1998–2000
    • Bartok the Magnificent (1999)
      Bartok the Magnificent
      6.1
      Video
      • vocal coach
      • 1999
    • Kirstie Alley in Veronica's Closet (1997)
      Veronica's Closet
      5.8
      TV Series
      • composer: title theme
      • composer: theme music
      • composer: additional music ...
      • 1997–1999
    • Ben Bode, JD Cullum, Ryan Hurst, Jerry Kernion, Monte Markham, David Sage, and LaRita Shelby in Campus Cops (1995)
      Campus Cops
      7.1
      TV Series
      • composer: theme music
      • composer: main title theme
      • 1996
    • Paul Terry in James and the Giant Peach (1996)
      James and the Giant Peach
      6.7
      • song production supervisor
      • vocal arrangements
      • 1996
    • Dream On (1990)
      Dream On
      7.6
      TV Series
      • composer: main title theme
      • 1990–1996
    • The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You (1995)
      The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You
      7.0
      Music Video
      • music by
      • 1995

    Composer



    • Stephanie Erb in Faultless (2021)
      Faultless
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in Grace and Frankie (2015)
      Grace and Frankie
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2015–2020
    • Laura Breckenridge, Lizzy Caplan, Jennifer Esposito, and Kiele Sanchez in Related (2005)
      Related
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2006
    • Pals (2004)
      Pals
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2004
    • Bob Patterson (2001)
      Bob Patterson
      4.1
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2001
    • Kirstie Alley in Veronica's Closet (1997)
      Veronica's Closet
      5.8
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 1997–2000
    • Boys Life 3 (2000)
      Boys Life 3
      6.2
      • Composer (segment "Inside Out")
      • 2000
    • Christina Applegate, Bruno Campos, Eric Lloyd, Jennifer Milmore, Kevin Rahm, Liza Snyder, and Darryl Theirse in Jesse (1998)
      Jesse
      6.0
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 1998–2000
    • Wish You Were Here
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 1999
    • Just Looking (1999)
      Just Looking
      6.6
      • Composer
      • 1999
    • Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
      Friends
      8.9
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 1997–1998
    • The Lovemaster (1997)
      The Lovemaster
      5.6
      • Composer
      • 1997
    • Lane Janger in Inside Out (1996)
      Inside Out
      5.6
      Short
      • Composer
      • 1996
    • Here Come the Munsters (1995)
      Here Come the Munsters
      5.1
      TV Movie
      • Composer
      • 1995
    • The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You (1995)
      The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You
      7.0
      Music Video
      • Composer
      • 1995

    Actor



    • Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in Grace and Frankie (2015)
      Grace and Frankie
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Piano Player
      • 2022

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    • Spouse
      • Marta KauffmanNovember 1984 - November 25, 2015 (divorced, 3 children)
    • Children
      • Sam Kaufman-Skloff
    • Other works
      (April 17 & 18, 1989) He composed music for the musical, "Arthur, The Musical," in a staged reading at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. Richard Maltby Jr. was director. David Crane and Marta Kauffman wrote the book and lyrics.

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