Biography
Frederick James Karlin (June 16, 1936 – March 26, 2004) was an American trumpeter, songwriter, and composer for film and television. Karlin's film scores included The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Babymaker (1970), The Little Ark (1972), Westworld (1973), Mixed Company (1974), Mastermind (1976), Futureworld (1976), Greased Lightning (1977), Ravagers (1979), Cloud Dancer (1980), and Strawberry Road (1991). For the film Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song with "For All We Know", which was also a hit for the Carpenters. Karlin also worked extensively in television, especially composing music for television movies. His compositions were nominated for an Emmy Award eleven times, and he won for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in 1974.
Sound 145
1990s
- 1993
Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
Original Music Composer
Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story
Original Music Composer
- 1992
The Secret
Original Music Composer
Survive the Savage Sea
Original Music Composer
The Making of High Noon
Music
- 1991
The Last Prostitute
Original Music Composer
Strawberry Road
Original Music Composer
Her Wicked Ways
Original Music Composer
- 1990
Murder C.O.D.
Original Music Composer
1980s
- 1989
Fear Stalk
Original Music Composer
Bridge to Silence
Original Music Composer
- 1988
Dadah Is Death
Original Music Composer
What Price Victory
Original Music Composer
- 1987
Celebration Family
Original Music Composer
The Facts of Life Down Under
Original Music Composer
- 1986
Dream West
Original Music Composer
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
Original Music Composer
- 1985
Final Jeopardy
Original Music Composer
Hostage Flight
Original Music Composer
Kids Don't Tell
Original Music Composer
- 1984
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Original Music Composer
Calamity Jane
Original Music Composer
Cougar
Original Music Composer
- 1983
Policewoman Centerfold
Original Music Composer
Night Partners
Original Music Composer
One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
Original Music Composer
Wishman
Original Music Composer
In Defense of Kids
Original Music Composer
Inspector Perez
Original Music Composer
- 1982
Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Original Music Composer
The First Time
Original Music Composer
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter
Original Music Composer
- 1981
The Marva Collins Story
Original Music Composer
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"
Original Music Composer
Bitter Harvest
Original Music Composer
The Five of Me
Original Music Composer
Broken Promise
Original Music Composer
We're Fighting Back
Original Music Composer
Miracle on Ice
Original Music Composer
Thornwell
Original Music Composer
- 1980
A Time for Miracles
Original Music Composer
My Kidnapper, My Love
Original Music Composer
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Original Music Composer
The Secret War of Jackie's Girls
Original Music Composer
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Original Music Composer
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Original Music Composer
Baby Comes Home
Original Music Composer
Cloud Dancer
Original Music Composer
The Plutonium Incident
Original Music Composer
Marriage Is Alive and Well
Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Family
Original Music Composer
1970s
- 1979
Topper
Original Music Composer
And Baby Makes Six
Original Music Composer
Sex and the Single Parent
Original Music Composer
Ravagers
Original Music Composer
The Last Giraffe
Original Music Composer
Blind Ambition
Original Music Composer
Walking Through the Fire
Original Music Composer
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Original Music Composer
Ike
Original Music Composer
Ike
Original Music Composer
Samurai
Original Music Composer
Transplant
Original Music Composer
California Dreaming
Original Music Composer
...And Your Name Is Jonah
Original Music Composer
- 1978
Who'll Save Our Children?
Original Music Composer
Long Journey Back
Original Music Composer
The Gift of Love
Original Music Composer
Bud and Lou
Original Music Composer
Lady of the House
Original Music Composer
More Than Friends
Original Music Composer
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Original Music Composer
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Music
Just Me and You
Original Music Composer
Leave Yesterday Behind
Original Music Composer
Mean Dog Blues
Original Music Composer
The Awakening Land
Original Music Composer
Deadman's Curve
Original Music Composer
The World Beyond
Original Music Composer
Forever
Original Music Composer
- 1977
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Original Music Composer
Intimate Strangers
Original Music Composer
Having Babies II
Original Music Composer
The Girl Called Hatter Fox
Original Music Composer
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Original Music Composer
Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
Music Arranger
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Original Music Composer
The Hostage Heart
Original Music Composer
Greased Lightning
Original Music Composer
Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances
Music
Lucan
Original Music Composer
Man from Atlantis III: Killer Spores
Music
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Original Music Composer
Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts
Music
World of Darkness
Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
Original Music Composer
Minstrel Man
Original Music Composer
Green Eyes
Original Music Composer
- 1976
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Original Music Composer
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Original Music Composer
Mastermind
Original Music Composer
Woman of the Year
Original Music Composer
Leadbelly
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Baby Blue Marine
Original Music Composer
- 1975
Death Be Not Proud
Original Music Composer
The Dream Makers
Original Music Composer
- 1974
Punch and Jody
Original Music Composer
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Original Music Composer
Bad Ronald
Original Music Composer
Mixed Company
Original Music Composer
The Dion Brothers
Original Music Composer
Chosen Survivors
Original Music Composer
The Take
Original Music Composer
- 1973
The Man Who Could Talk to Kids
Original Music Composer
A Chant of Silence
Music
- 1972
Every Little Crook and Nanny
Original Music Composer
The Little Ark
Original Music Composer
- 1971
Believe in Me
Original Music Composer
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Original Music Composer
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
Original Music Composer
- 1970
Cover Me Babe
Original Music Composer
The Baby Maker
Original Music Composer
Lovers and Other Strangers
Original Music Composer
1960s
- 1969
The Sterile Cuckoo
Original Music Composer
- 1968
- 1967
Acted in 1
1990s
- 1995
Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
Director
Directed 1
1990s
- 1995
Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
Director