Film composers in America
A checklist of their work
A checklist of their work
Compiled and edited by Clifford McCarty.
Foreword by Lawrence Morton
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| Achron, Joseph (b. 1886) | compositore, violin |
| Amfiteatrov, Daniele Alexandrovich (b. 1901 d. 1983) | composer, conductor |
| Antheil, George Johann Carl (b. 1900 d. 1959) | composer, musicisti |
| Applebaum, Louis (b. 1918) | composer |
| Arnaud, Noel Leon Marius (b. 1904 a. 1936) | cello, composer |
| Axt, William (b. 1888 d. 1959) | composer |
| Bassman, George (b. 1914) | arranger, composer |
| Bennett, Robert Russell (b. 1894 d. 1981) | arranger, composer |
| Bernstein, Elmer (b. 1922) | composer, incidental music |
| Blitzstein, Marc (b. 1905 d. 1964) | author, cast |
| Bowles, Paul Frederic (b. 1910) | composer, writer |
| Bradley, Scott (a. 1946-1950) | composer |
| Breil, Joseph Carl (b. 1870 d. 1926) | singer, conductor |
| Broekman, David Hendrines (b. 1902 d. 1958) | composer, conductor |
| Buttolph, David (b. 1902) | composer |
| Butts, R. Dale [Robert Dale] (b. 1910) | composer, lyricist |
| Byrns, Harold (b. 1903 d. 1977 a. 1936) | composer, orchestra |
| Cadkin, Emil (a. 1947-1966) | composer |
| Cadman, Charles Wakefield (b. 1881 d. 1946) | composer, piano |
| Cage, John (b. 1912 d. 1992) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Cailliet, Lucien (b. 1891 d. 1984) | clarinet, composer |
| Calker, Darrell W. (b. 1905 d. 1964) | composer |
| Carbonera, Gerard (a. 1928-1943) | composer |
| Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (b. 1895) | composer, compositore |
| Chaplin, Charlie [Charles Spencer] (b. 1889 d. 1977) | actor, composer |
| Chaplin, Saul (b. 1912 d. 1990) | composer, lyricist |
| Churchill, Frank E. (b. 1901 d. 1942) | composer |
| Collins, Anthony (Vincent Benedictus) (b. 1893 d. 1963) | conductor, viola |
| Colombo, Albert Carl (b. 1888 d. 1954) | composer |
| Copland, Aaron (b. 1900) | composer, Dirigent |
| Cutner, Sidney Benjamin (b. 1903 d. 1971) | composer, arranger |
| De Francesco, Louis E. (b. 1888 d. 1974) | composer, conductor |
| De Saxe, Rudolph (b. 1905 d. 1958) | composer, orchestrator |
| Dessau, Paul (b. 1894 d. 1979) | composer, Komponist |
| Deutsch, Adolph (b. 1897 d. 1980) | composer, music director |
| Diamond, David (Leo) (b. 1915) | composer, musicisti |
| Dolan, Robert Emmett (b. 1908 d. 1972) | composer, conductor |
| Dragon, Carmen (b. 1914 d. 1984) | conductor, orchestra |
| Dubin, Joseph (a. 1944-1950) | composer |
| Duning, George William (b. 1908) | composer |
| Dunlap, Paul (a. 1950-1974) | composer |
| Eisler, Hanns (b. 1898 d. 1962) | composer, Komposition |
| Elinor, Carli D. (a. 1915-1929) | composer |
| Erdody, Leo (b. 1888 d. 1949) | composer, violin |
| Feuer, Cy (b. 1911) | director, librettist |
| Forbes, Lou (b. 1902) | composer, orchestra |
| Friedhofer, Hugo (William) (b. 1901 d. 1981) | film composer, orchestrator |
| Gershwin, George (b. 1898) | author, cast |
| Gertz, Irving (b. 1915) | composer |
| Gilbert, Herschel Burke (b. 1918) | composer, conductor |
| Glasser, Albert (b. 1916) | composer |
| Glickman, Mort H. (b. 1898 d. 1952) | composer, arranger |
| Gold, Ernest (b. 1921) | arranger, composer |
| Gould, Morton (b. 1913) | composer, conductor |
| Green, Johnny [John William] (b. 1908 d. 1989) | composer, music director |
| Greene, Walter Wesley (b. 1910) | composer, conductor |
| Grofe, Ferde (b. 1892 d. 1972) | composer, musicisti |
| Gruenberg, Louis (b. 1884 d. 1964) | composer, compositore |
| Hageman, Richard (b. 1882 d. 1966) | composer, conductor |
| Hajos, Karl (b. 1889 d. 1950) | composer, music adaptation |
| Harline, Leigh (b. 1907 d. 1969) | composer, vocals |
| Harling, William Frank (b. 1887 d. 1958) | composer, piano |
| Harris, Roy (b. 1898 d. 1979) | composer, musicisti |
| Hatley, Thomas Marvin (b. 1905) | composer, lyricist |
| Hayton, Lennie [Leonard George] (b. 1908 d. 1971) | music director, piano |
| Heindorf, Ray (b. 1908 d. 1980) | conductor, film composer |
| Herrmann, Bernard (b. 1911 d. 1975) | composer, conductor |
| Heymann, Werner Richard (b. 1896) | composer |
| Hollaender, Friedrich (b. 1896 d. 1976) | piano, arranger |
| Jackson, Howard Manucy (b. 1900) | composer |
| Janssen, Werner (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Kaper, Bronsilaw (b. 1902 d. 1983) | film composer |
| Kilenyi, Edward (b. 1884 d. 1968) | composer, musician |
| Kopp, Rudolph George (b. 1887 d. 1971) | composer, conductor |
| Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (b. 1897 d. 1957) | arranger, composer |
| Kraushaar, Raoul (b. 1908) | composer |
| Krumgold, Sigmund (b. 1896) | composer, lyricist |
| Kubik, Gail (Thompson) (b. 1914 d. 1984) | composer |
| Lange, Arthur (b. 1889 d. 1956) | arranger, banjo |
| Laszlo, Alexander (b. 1895 d. 1970 a. 1944) | piano, composer |
| Lava, William (b. 1911 d. 1971) | composer, arranger |
| Lawrence, Maurice (a. 1935-1941) | composer |
| Leipold, John (a. 1934-1949) | composer |
| Levant, Oscar (b. 1906 d. 1972) | cast, composer |
| Lilley, Joseph J. (b. 1914 d. 1971) | composer, music director |
| Malotte, Albert Hay (b. 1895 d. 1964) | composer, organ |
| Maxwell, Charles (b. 1892 d. 1962) | composer, arranger |
| Mendoza, David (b. 1894 d. 1975) | conductor |
| Merrick, Mahlon (a. 1943-1952) | composer |
| Michelet, Michel (b. 1894 a. 1941) | composer, cello |
| Milhaud, Darius (b. 1892) | composer, compositore |
| Mockridge, Cyril (John) (b. 1896 d. 1979) | composer of film music |
| Moraweck, Lucien (b. 1901) | composer |
| Moross, Jerome (b. 1913 d. 1983) | Broadway and film composer, composer |
| Morton, Arthur (a. 1935-1951) | composer |
| Murray, Lyn (b. 1909 d. 1989 a. 1929) | cast, composer of music for TV shows |
| Newman, Alfred (b. 1901 d. 1970) | composer, conductor |
| North, Alex (b. 1910 d. 1991) | composer, film music composer |
| Parrish, George (b. 1900 a. 1939) | composer, arranger |
| Perl, Lothar (b. 1910 d. 1975) | arranger, composer |
| Peters, William Frederick (b. 1876 d. 1938) | composer |
| Plumb, Edward H. (b. 1907 d. 1958) | composer |
| Previn, Andre (George) (b. 1929) | composer, conductor |
| Raab, Leonid (a. 1948-1949) | composer |
| Radin, Oscar | composer, music director |
| Raksin, David (b. 1912) | clarinet, composer |
| Rapee, Erno (b. 1891 d. 1945) | conductor, music director |
| Rathaus, Karol (b. 1895 d. 1954) | composer |
| Rich, Fred [Freddie] (b. 1898 d. 1956) | piano, bandleader |
| Riesenfeld, Hugo (b. 1879 d. 1939) | composer, music director |
| Robinson, Earl Hawley (b. 1910 d. 1991) | songwriter, conductor |
| Roder, Milan (b. 1878 d. 1956) | composer, music director |
| Roemheld, Heinz Eric (b. 1901 d. 1985) | composer, film composer |
| Romberg, Sigmund (b. 1887 d. 1951) | cast, composer |
| Rose, David (b. 1910 d. 1990) | bass guitar, composer |
| Rosen, Milton Sonnett (b. 1906) | composer |
| Rozsa, Miklos (b. 1907) | composer, conductor |
| Russell, Henry (a. 1948-1951) | composer |
| Russell, Henry (b. 1871 d. 1937) | opera impresario |
| Salinger, Conrad | composer, orchestrator |
| Salter, Hans Julius (b. 1896 d. 1994) | composer |
| Sawtell, Paul (b. 1906) | composer, keyboard |
| Scharf, Walter (b. 1910) | arranger, conductor |
| Schrager, Rudolph (a. 1942-1949) | composer |
| Schumann, Walter (b. 1913 d. 1958) | composer |
| Scott, Nathan George (b. 1915) | composer, dance arranger |
| Sendrey, Albert Richmond (b. 1911) | composer, orchestrator |
| Setaro, Andrea (a. 1934-1935) | composer |
| Shilkret, Nathaniel (b. 1895 d. 1982) | composer, conductor |
| Shuken, Leo (b. 1906 d. 1976) | composer |
| Silvers, Louis (b. 1889 d. 1954) | composer, lyricist |
| Skiles, Marlin H. (b. 1906) | composer |
| Skinner, Frank (b. 1897 d. 1968) | arranger, composer |
| Smith, Paul Joseph (b. 1906 d. 1985) | composer |
| Snell, David L. (b. 1897 d. 1967) | composer, harp |
| Stahl, Willy (b. 1896) | teacher, violin |
| Stanley, Ralph (b. 1888) | lyricist |
| Steiner, Max [Maximilian Raoul Walter] (b. 1888 d. 1971) | film composer |
| Steinert, Alexander Lang (b. 1900 d. 1982) | piano, composer |
| Stevens, Leith (b. 1909 d. 1970) | arranger, composer |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Stoll, Georgie (b. 1905) | conductor, trombone |
| Stone, Gregory (b. 1900) |
| Stothart, Herbert (b. 1885 d. 1949) | composer, director |
| Tansman, Alexandre (b. 1897 d. 1986) | composer, compositore |
| Taylor, Deems [Joseph Deems] (b. 1885 d. 1966) | cast, composer |
| Thomson, Virgil (Garnett) (b. 1896 d. 1989) | composer, musicisti |
| Tiomkin, Dimitri (b. 1894 d. 1979) | composer, Klavier |
| Toch, Ernst (b. 1887 d. 1964) | composer, compositore |
| Tours, Frank E. (b. 1877 d. 1963) | composer, lyricist |
| Van Cleave, Nathan (b. 1910 d. 1970) | composer, orchestrator |
| Wallace, Oliver (b. 1887 d. 1963) | composer, conductor |
| Ward, Edward (b. 1896) | composer, lyricist |
| Waxman, Franz (b. 1906 d. 1967) | composer, conductor |
| Webb, Roy (b. 1888 d. 1982) | composer, lyricist |
| Weill, Kurt (Julian) (b. 1900 d. 1950) | author, composer |
| Willson, Meredith (b. 1902 d. 1984) | author, composer |
| Wilson, Mortimer (b. 1876 d. 1932) | conductor, composer of music for silent movies |
| Wilson, Stanley (a. 1949-1952) | composer |
| Wineland, Samuel Katharos (b. 1895) | violin, teacher |
| Wolcott, Charles Frederick (b. 1906 d. 1987) | composer, arranger with Walt Disney Studios |
| Young, Victor (b. 1900 d. 1956) | composer, violin |
| Zahler, Lee | composer |