Born in Los Angeles. Broughton has enjoyed an incredibly prolific career writing music for a vast number of TV series and telefeatures during the 1970s and 80s (including such hits as 'Hawaii Five-O', 'Hart to Hart', 'Buck Rogers', 'Dallas', 'Quincy', 'Logan's Run' and 'Barnaby Jones'). His first foray into the world of feature films came in 1984, with Stewart Raffill's THE ICE PIRATES, and since then Broughton has composed some excellent scores, mainly with rousing bombastic themes. The undoubted pinnacle of his career to date was the incredible western SILVERADO in 1985, which got him an Oscar® nomination, but other highlights include HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, THE PRESIDIO, NARROW MARGIN, TOMBSTONE and MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. Broughton is another one of those composers who seems to be continually asked to score films unworthy of his talents, but whose music is very popular with soundtrack collectors, with some of his rarest titles (such as 'Baby's Day Out' and 'The Rescuers Down Under') being highly prized items, fetching hundreds of dollars at auctions. Broughton scored New Line Pictures' 1998 summer blockbuster LOST IN SPACE and Bruno Barreto's police drama ONE TOUGH COP. He also worked with Disney on FANTASIA 2000, adapting works by Dukas, Elgar, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Other notable scoring credits include ICE PIRATES (1984), YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (1985), MOONWALKER (1988), BETSY'S WEDDING (1990), HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID (1992), SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER (1993), A SIMPLE WISH (1997) and KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE (1998), CINÉMAGIQUE (2002), LUCY (2003), LAST FLIGHT OUT (2004), and BAMBI II (2006). He also works extensively in television.  Nominated for Music Scoring Awards (Best Original Score) 1985: SILVERADO 1 nomination