Composer, author and oboist, educated at Juilliard (BS). He was first oboist for the Dallas Symphony and the New York Little Orchestra between 1948 and 1956. Then he joined Revue Studios in California, lasting until 1960, thereafter working freelance. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his chief musical collaborators included Johnny Mercer and Jack Brooks.
Juilliard School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
Children
Zachary Fried
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition - Series (Original Dramatic Score)
Albums
Orienta
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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Film scoring is so much more exciting than being an oboe player. I was 21 years old when I did my first picture and the idea of going to Hollywood ... well! My eyes got awful big real quick. There's a lot of challenge in film composing. We're hired as part of a team, so you don't show off. If music can stand up in the concert hall, it's probably too complicated for film. My first task is to make it work within the film's context.
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Fact
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In October 2013 he received Lifetime Achievement Golden Pine Award at the International Samobor Film Music Festival (ISFMF), along with Clint Eastwood and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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Played baseball and football with childhood friend Stanley Kubrick while growing up in New York City.
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Taught a Master Class on film scoring at UCLA.
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Member of the SAC (Social Athletic Club) known as the Barracudas as a teenager growing up in The Bronx. Would later be introduced to director Stanley Kubrick by mutual friend Alexander Singer.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Unbelievable!!!!!
2016
completed
Starship Valiant: Legacy
2014
Video short
Psyche Ascending
2013
Short
20 Ways
2012
Short
Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II
2004
TV Series 1 episode
World of Discovery
1990
TV Series documentary 1 episode
Roots: The Gift
1988
TV Movie
Drop-Out Mother
1988
TV Movie
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
1987
TV Mini-Series 3 episodes
Embassy
1985
TV Movie
The Mystic Warrior
1984
TV Movie
Dynasty
1983-1984
TV Series 3 episodes
Australia's Animal Mysteries
1984
TV Movie documentary
A Killer in the Family
1983
TV Movie
Casablanca
1983
TV Series 2 episodes
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
1983
TV Movie
American Playhouse
1983
TV Series 1 episode
Murder Is Easy
1982
TV Movie
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981
TV Movie
Flamingo Road
1980-1981
TV Series 9 episodes
The Wild and the Free
1980
TV Movie
The Silent Lovers
1980
TV Movie
Gauguin the Savage
1980
TV Movie
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
1980
TV Movie
Condominium
1980
TV Series 2 episodes
Disaster on the Coastliner
1979
TV Movie
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
1979
TV Movie
Emergency!
1978-1979
TV Series 2 episodes
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
1979
TV Movie
The Rebels
1979
TV Movie
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
1979
TV Movie
The Chisholms
1979
TV Mini-Series
The Bell Jar
1979
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
TV Mini-Series 7 episodes
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979
TV Movie
The Seekers
1979
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
The Immigrants
1978
TV Movie
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
1978
TV Movie
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978
TV Movie
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
TV Movie
Cruise Into Terror
1978
TV Movie
Roots: One Year Later
1978
TV Movie documentary
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
TV Movie
Testimony of Two Men
1977
TV Mini-Series
Roots
1977
TV Mini-Series 1 episode
The Spell
1977
TV Movie
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
TV Movie
Vigilante Force
1976
Survive!
1976
Police Woman
1975
TV Series 1 episode
Police Story
1975
TV Series 1 episode
I Will Fight No More Forever
1975
TV Movie
Birds Do It, Bees Do It
1974
Documentary
The Baby
1973
The Sixth Sense
1972
TV Series 1 episode
The Grissom Gang
1971
The Enchanted Years
1971
Documentary
Too Late the Hero
1970
Image of the City
1969
Short
Mannix
1969
TV Series 1 episode
Mission: Impossible
1966-1969
TV Series 6 episodes
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969
California
1968
TV Movie documentary
Family Affair
1967-1968
TV Series 2 episodes
The Killing of Sister George
1968
Lost in Space
1967
TV Series 2 episodes
National Geographic Specials
1967
TV Series documentary 1 episode
Iron Horse
1967
TV Series 4 episodes
Star Trek
1966-1967
TV Series 4 episodes
Danger Has Two Faces
1967
TV Movie
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
TV Series 1 episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1965-1967
TV Series 45 episodes
The Flying Nun
1967
TV Series
Mr. Terrific
1967
TV Series 17 episodes
Gilligan's Island
1965-1967
TV Series 39 episodes
The Karate Killers
1967
It's About Time
1966-1967
TV Series 25 episodes
My Three Sons
1964-1967
TV Series 2 episodes
T.H.E. Cat
1966-1967
TV Series 3 episodes
The Man Who Never Was
1966-1967
TV Series 15 episodes
Jericho
1966
TV Series 1 episode
The Felony Squad
1966
TV Series 1 episode
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
Deathwatch
1966
One Spy Too Many
1966
Gunsmoke
1965
TV Series 1 episode
Specials for United Artists: Trial at Nuremberg
1964
TV Movie documentary
Specials for United Artists: The Battle of Britain
1964
TV Movie documentary
One Potato, Two Potato
1964
Specials for United Artists: Berlin - Kaiser to Khrushchev
1964
TV Movie documentary
Specials for United Artists: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
1964
TV Movie documentary
Story of a Rodeo Cowboy
1963
Documentary
Specials for United Artists: The American Woman in the 20th Century
1963
TV Movie documentary
Specials for United Artists: Ten Seconds That Shook the World
1963
TV Movie documentary
Ben Casey
1963
TV Series 3 episodes
Specials for United Artists: The Yanks Are Coming
1963
TV Movie documentary
Specials for United Artists: December 7th - The Day of Infamy