Buddy Baker (composer)

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Norman Dale "Buddy" Baker (born January 4, 1918 in Springfield , Missouri , † July 26, 2002 in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles, California) was an American composer .

Life

Norman Dale Baker began playing the piano at the age of four and learning to play the trumpet at the age of eleven . He received his PhD in music from Southwest Baptist University in Missouri . In 1938 he moved to Los Angeles , where he soon began as arranger for the band on the radio show "The Bob Hope Show" . He later taught arrangement and composition at Los Angeles City College . In 1954, one of his former students, George Bruns , asked him to help him with the enormous amount of work that was created by film production at Walt Disney Studios . He started and was able to record his first composition for a feature film in 1960 with Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus . He stayed with Disney until 1983 and was able to celebrate his greatest success with Escape into the Wilderness , for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best film music in 1973 .

After his career, he began teaching at the University of Southern California in 1985 , where he founded the USC Film and Television Scoring Program . He also repeatedly took on assignments to write the theme music for leisure attractions at Tokyo Disney Resort , Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort .

Baker died on July 26, 2002, leaving behind his second wife, Charlotte, to whom he had been married since 1976. In addition to a stepson, he left the daughter Catherine "CiCi" Baker, who came from the first marriage (1950-1957) with the actress BJ Parker.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1953: Hands off, Jonny! (Wicked Woman)
  • 1959: Donald in Mathmagic Land
  • 1960: Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
  • 1961: The Leisure Captain (Aquamania)
  • 1965: A college full of monkeys (The Monkey's Uncle)
  • 1966: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
  • 1967: Adventurous journey to the dwarf country (The Gnome-Mobile)
  • 1968: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  • 1969: The Mysterious Meeting at Boyne Castle (Guns in the Heather)
  • 1969: A cheeky badger in the maize patch (Rascal)
  • 1970: King of the Grizzlies
  • 1971: The Million Dollar Duck
  • 1972: The Escape of the Pumas (Run, Cougar, Run)
  • 1972: Escape to the Wild (Napoleon and Samantha)
  • 1973: Charley and the Angel
  • 1973: Superdad - Dad is the greatest (Superdad)
  • 1974: My Bears and I (The Bears and I)
  • 1974: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
  • 1975: The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures
  • 1975: Die Breadknödelbande (The Apple Dumpling Gang)
  • 1976: The Big Vacation Adventure (No Deposit, No Return)
  • 1976: The Treasure of Matecumbe
  • 1976: Zotti, das Urviech (The Shaggy DA)
  • 1977: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (The many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)
  • 1978: Hot Shots, Cold Feet (Hot Lead and Cold Feet)
  • 1978: Two Cowboys (Trail of Danger)
  • 1979: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
  • 1981: Cap and Capper (The Fox and the Hound)
  • 1981: To hell with Max (The Devil and Max Devlin)

Awards

Oscar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Myrna Oliver: Norman Baker, 84; Longtime Composer for Disney on latimes.com on July 31, 2002, accessed February 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Composer Buddy Baker Scores a Hit ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on usc.edu of October 7, 1996, accessed February 6, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usc.edu
personal data
SURNAME Baker, buddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baker, Norman Dale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2002
Place of death Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles, California, United States