Lionel Cohen
- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Prolific award-winning Los Angeles-based composer lionel Cohen has been insatiably producing music for over thirty years. He has produced countless indie artists, has commercially released almost 250 albums of his original music, and has scored films for Sony Pictures, Saban Films, Gravitas Ventures, Vertical Entertainment, and Lionsgate, among others. His discipline and creativity have garnered him over 500 IMDb credits, millions of plays on Spotify, and tens of millions of views on YouTube.
lionel has scored numerous films, including, "First We Take Brooklyn" a gangster film starring Harvey Keitel, "Mob Town" the true story of the biggest raid in US history, starring David Arquette & Jennifer Esposito, "Feral State" a swampy crime thriller starring AnnaLynn McCord, "Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story" a basketball biopic starring Greg Finley, Michael Rapaport & Ashley Greene, the crime drama "I Love Us" starring Katie Cassidy & Jackie Cruz, "The Engineer" a spy thriller starring Emile Hirsch & Robert Davi, "The Gemini Lounge" a 1970s mob film starring Emile Hirsch & Lucy Hale, and "The Long Long Night" a dark comedy TV series for the Duplass Brothers, starring Mark Duplass. He has also just released his eight Spaghetti-Western album, his sixth record of Middle-Eastern Fusion music, and is currently producing several LA-based singer/songwriters. lionel was also recently commissioned to write original music for This American Life, rated the best podcast of all-time, with almost 5 million listeners each week.
lionel's music can be heard in TV shows including American Idol, House, Elementary, Chopped, Surviving the Cut, Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Real Housewives of Miami, Breaking Amish and Amish Mafia, and in countless commercials including How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, The Mentalist, The Price is Right, Hawaii Five-O, Undercover Boss, Survivor, Criminal Minds, The Tonight Show, Friends, Saturday Night Live and The Late Show. His commercial works include Sony PSP, Cadillac, Buick, BMW, Mercedes, Glenfiddich, Carlsberg, Verizon, NASCAR, Adidas, DirectTV, Louis Vuitton, Kohl's and Macy's, to name a few.
lionel is the creator and composer of the Musikopedie project, a massive undertaking of 1000 tracks in a variety of genres that took over 10 years to complete. The tracks have since been licensed hundreds of times in numerous TV series, reality shows, films, documentaries, and other projects.
lionel is a founding member of The Fascinated, The Plastic FanTastics, RoBOT LIKE ME, musicformachines.com, La Resistance, These Young Anarchists, and several other commercially released acts.
lionel has scored numerous films, including, "First We Take Brooklyn" a gangster film starring Harvey Keitel, "Mob Town" the true story of the biggest raid in US history, starring David Arquette & Jennifer Esposito, "Feral State" a swampy crime thriller starring AnnaLynn McCord, "Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story" a basketball biopic starring Greg Finley, Michael Rapaport & Ashley Greene, the crime drama "I Love Us" starring Katie Cassidy & Jackie Cruz, "The Engineer" a spy thriller starring Emile Hirsch & Robert Davi, "The Gemini Lounge" a 1970s mob film starring Emile Hirsch & Lucy Hale, and "The Long Long Night" a dark comedy TV series for the Duplass Brothers, starring Mark Duplass. He has also just released his eight Spaghetti-Western album, his sixth record of Middle-Eastern Fusion music, and is currently producing several LA-based singer/songwriters. lionel was also recently commissioned to write original music for This American Life, rated the best podcast of all-time, with almost 5 million listeners each week.
lionel's music can be heard in TV shows including American Idol, House, Elementary, Chopped, Surviving the Cut, Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Real Housewives of Miami, Breaking Amish and Amish Mafia, and in countless commercials including How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, The Mentalist, The Price is Right, Hawaii Five-O, Undercover Boss, Survivor, Criminal Minds, The Tonight Show, Friends, Saturday Night Live and The Late Show. His commercial works include Sony PSP, Cadillac, Buick, BMW, Mercedes, Glenfiddich, Carlsberg, Verizon, NASCAR, Adidas, DirectTV, Louis Vuitton, Kohl's and Macy's, to name a few.
lionel is the creator and composer of the Musikopedie project, a massive undertaking of 1000 tracks in a variety of genres that took over 10 years to complete. The tracks have since been licensed hundreds of times in numerous TV series, reality shows, films, documentaries, and other projects.
lionel is a founding member of The Fascinated, The Plastic FanTastics, RoBOT LIKE ME, musicformachines.com, La Resistance, These Young Anarchists, and several other commercially released acts.
