Earle Hagen

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Earle Harry Hagen (born July 9, 1919 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 26, 2008 in Rancho Mirage , California ) was an Oscar- nominated American film composer .

Career

Born in Chicago, Hagen moved to Los Angeles with his family at a young age . After graduating from high school , he joined various big bands as a trombonist and played alongside Tommy Dorsey , Benny Goodman and Ray Noble . In 1939, while at Noble, he wrote his best-known piece, Harlem Nocturne .

In the early 1940s he signed a contract as a studio musician with CBS , but then moved to 20th Century Fox , where he worked as an arranger until the early 1950s . During this time he worked, among other things, on Madame makes stories and blondes preferred . In 1952 he left Fox and from then on worked mainly as a television composer.

In 1968 he was awarded an Emmy for the music for the television series Tennis Rackets and Cannons ( I Spy ). The specialty of this multiple award-winning series was that each episode had its own opening credits, which thematically corresponded to the location. Until the mid-1980s, Hagen continued to work successfully as a television composer and also created music for the series Mike Hammer ( The Return Of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ), the comedy show Make Room for Daddy and a whistled theme music for The Andy Griffith Show . The fact that the series The New Perry Mason (1973) was a flop was not due to Hagen's music. In 1974 and 1981 Hagen also contributed music to the television remakes of the Planet of the Apes .

literature

  • Earle Hagen: Memoirs of a Famous Composer - Nobody Ever Heard Of , Xlibris Corporation (2002) - ISBN 0-73885-719-X (biography)

Filmography

watch TV

  • 1961: The Andy Griffith Show
  • 1961: tennis rackets and cannons
  • 1961: The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • 1972: The Mod Squad
  • 1972: The Don Rickles Show
  • 1973: Doc Elliot
  • 1973: The New Perry Mason
  • 1974: Planet of the Apes
  • 1975: Big Eddie
  • 1975: The Runaways
  • 1976: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
  • 1977: Eight Is Enough
  • 1981: Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
  • 1986: The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Movie

Awards

  • 1961 - Oscar nomination for Let's Make Love
  • 1966 - Emmy Nomination for Tennis, Racquets and Guns
  • 1967 Emmy Nomination for Tennis, Racquets and Guns
  • 1968 - Emmy Award for Tennis, Rackets and Guns
  • 1981 - Emmy nomination for Stand by Your Man

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personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Earle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Earle Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2008
Place of death Rancho Mirage , California