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David Raksin

David Raksin

1912–2004 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Raksin (August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music."

Sound 76

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1983
  3. 1980

    Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush

    Original Music Composer

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Suicide's Wife

    Music

  2. 1978
  3. 1974

    Magick Lantern Cycle

    Music

  4. 1971

    What's the Matter with Helen?

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1970

1960s

  1. 1967
  2. 1966
  3. 1965

    Love Has Many Faces

    Original Music Composer

  4. Sylvia

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1964
  6. The Patsy

    Original Music Composer, Songs

  7. Scorpio Rising

    Music

  8. 1962

    Two Weeks in Another Town

    Original Music Composer

  9. 1961

    Too Late Blues

    Original Music Composer

  10. 1960

    Pay or Die!

    Original Music Composer

1950s

  1. 1959

    Al Capone

    Original Music Composer

  2. 1958
  3. Twilight for the Gods

    Original Music Composer

  4. 1957

    Until They Sail

    Original Music Composer

  5. Gunsight Ridge

    Original Music Composer

  6. Man on Fire

    Original Music Composer

  7. 1956

    Bigger Than Life

    Original Music Composer

  8. Hilda Crane

    Original Music Composer

  9. Jubal

    Original Music Composer

  10. 1955
  11. 1954
  12. 1952
  13. The Girl in White

    Original Music Composer

  14. 1951
  15. Kind Lady

    Music

  16. 1950

    The Magnificent Yankee

    Conductor, Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

  17. Right Cross

    Original Music Composer

  18. A Lady Without Passport

    Original Music Composer

  19. The Next Voice You Hear...

    Original Music Composer

  20. The Reformer and the Redhead

    Original Music Composer

1940s

  1. 1948

    Apartment for Peggy

    Original Music Composer

  2. 1947

    Daisy Kenyon

    Music, Original Music Composer

  3. The Homestretch

    Music

  4. 1945
  5. Don Juan Quilligan

    Original Music Composer

  6. Where Do We Go from Here?

    Music

  7. Circumstantial Evidence

    Orchestrator

  8. 1944
  9. Tampico

    Music

  10. Main Street Today

    Music

  11. 1943

    I Dood It

    Music

  12. City Without Men

    Music

  13. 1942

    The Undying Monster

    Music

  14. Dr. Renault's Secret

    Original Music Composer

  15. Just Off Broadway

    Music

  16. The Man Who Wouldn't Die

    Original Music Composer

  17. On the Sunny Side

    Original Music Composer

  18. Inflation

    Music

  19. 1941

    Dead Men Tell

    Original Music Composer

1930s

  1. 1939

    The Witness Vanishes

    Original Music Composer

  2. 1937

    Wings Over Honolulu

    Original Music Composer

  3. Midnight Court

    Music

  4. The Mighty Treve

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1936

Other crew 2

1940s

  1. 1944

    Irish Eyes Are Smiling

    Additional Music

Acted in 1

2000s

  1. 2003

    Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique

    Interviewee

Appearances9

2000s

  1. 2002

    Cinerama Adventure

    Self

1990s

  1. 1998

    Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

    Self

  2. 1995

    Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound

    Self

  3. 1993

    Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

    Self - Composer

  4. 1992

    Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

    Self

1970s

  1. 1976

    Hollywood's Musical Moods

    Self

  2. 1971
Thanked in the credits1