Biography: Greg O'Connor has composed scores for over 30 television series and has written over 1000-featured songs for TV, films and commercials. He is a Primetime Emmy winner and a four-time Emmy nominee. He has scored projects in every genre including variety, single camera comedy, multi camera comedy, animation, one hour drama, game show, sketch comedy, award show, stand up, reality, hidden camera, documentary and virtual reality. Greg most recently composed the score and songs for the Threshold Entertainment film drama My Home Unknown, the documentary feature Baby Boomer Yearbook for director Randal Kleiser and the animated feature film Bobbleheads The Movie for Universal Pictures. Greg co-wrote the featured "Laura Dern" song for the Film Independent Spirit Awards that instantly went viral, and was featured in every major publication and news outlet. He composed the main title theme for the Disney + series Prop Culture. Greg composed the company logo music for House of Paine Entertainment for Academy Awards producer Rob Paine and the logo for Threshold Entertainment for producer Lawrence Kasanoff. Greg wrote opening theme songs for the ABC series Greatest Hits, produced by Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich as well as the theme song for the series Gay Skit Happens with two members of the Grammy winning vocal group Pentatonix. Greg scored the science fiction thriller virtual reality (VR) series Defrost, directed by Randal Kleiser. Greg wrote and produced two songs, "Someone Needed Me the Most" and "Firecracker" for the legendary band Chicago on their latest BMG album with founding band member James Pankow. Together, they also wrote 2 Billboard AC Top 20 Chicago songs, "The Only One" and "Show Me a Sign", as well as the song "Here with Me" for the Chicago album "Stone of Sisyphus." Greg produced songs for the Barry Manilow album "The Greatest Songs of the Eighties" as well as Barry's hit Christmas single "Christmas is Just Around the Corner." Greg was the composer, songwriter and musical director for all 15 seasons of the hit sketch comedy show MAD TV, David Alan Grier's comedy series Chocolate News, Jeff Foxworthy's variety show Blue Collar TV, Bob Einstein's series Super Dave Spike-Tacular and the hidden camera series The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. He was the musical director and composer for the ABC reality competition series The Next Best Thing. Greg scored the ABC Aaron Spelling cop drama 10-8. Early in his career, he wrote the score and songs for the Emmy winning sketch series The Ben Stiller Show and The Sunday Comics on FOX. Greg has written and produced many featured songs for films including My Home Unknown, Bobbleheads, Hoovey, A Sunday Horse, The Greening of Whitney Brown, The Poker House, Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers and the animated Lionsgate movie Foodfight. Greg composed the theme song for Will Sasso's Ten Minute Podcast as well as The Caliendo Cast for actor comedian Frank Caliendo. Greg also composed the Ruddy Morgan Entertainment logo music for Oscar winning Producer Al Ruddy. Greg is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame in music composition and theory as well as the graduate program in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television at USC.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Composer, also actor
- 5 on MovieCove · 6 credits in all
Known for
What are Greg O'Connor's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 3 · Charged 0 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 2
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet1
- Cyclical3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Greg O'Connor's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Greg O'Connor's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
6 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
Bobbleheads: The Movie(2020)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
The Big Gay Sketch Show(2006)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all filmsMona Must Die (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Career shape
A full career of 3 titles from 1994 to 2020.
Awards
a Primetime Emmy from 4 major nominations, 2001–2008.
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Music and Lyrics
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Greg O'Connor's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 41st percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 31st percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Cult Classics.
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Greg O'Connor work with?
People who share at least 2 of Greg O'Connor's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Keith Truesdell shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Keith TruesdellShared titles: Jason Kuller: Good-bye Yellow Brick Joke (1999), Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Keith Truesdell
Producers
- Annie AlbrechtShared titles: Jason Kuller: Good-bye Yellow Brick Joke (1999), Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Annie Albrecht
- Bob ReadShared titles: Jason Kuller: Good-bye Yellow Brick Joke (1999), Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Bob Read
- Douglas RossShared titles: Jason Kuller: Good-bye Yellow Brick Joke (1999), Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Douglas Ross
- Greg StewartShared titles: Jason Kuller: Good-bye Yellow Brick Joke (1999), Paul F. Tompkins: Driven to Drink (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Greg Stewart