George Duning

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George Duning (born February 25, 1908 in Richmond , Indiana , † February 27, 2000 in San Diego , California ) was an American film composer .

Life

Duning was born to a saleswoman and a piano teacher in Richmond. The family moved to Ohio when he was a child . In Cincinnati he learned to play the trumpet as a teenager and trained as a musician and composer at the local conservatory. From the early 1920s he was a trumpeter and pianist in the Kay Kyser Band, which was followed by several years as an arranger and composer for the radio in the 1930s . In 1942 he joined the United States Navy and then served as a conductor and arranger for military radio. When the Kay Kyser Band appeared in the 1944 film Carolina Moon , Duning was discovered as a composer by Morris Stoloff , the musical director of Columbia Pictures . In 1945 he received a contract with Columbia, where he was henceforth almost exclusively used as a film composer.

His best-known works include the two Glenn-Ford - Western Count to Three and Pray (1957) and Cowboy (1958) as well as Fred Zinnemann's classic Damned in All Eternity (1953) and Richard Quine's My Bride is Psychic (1958). His collaboration with Nelson Riddle for the musical adaptation of the Broadway musical Pal Joey by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the film of the same name also attracted attention.

From the 1950s on, Duning also composed music for American television productions, such as B. for Raumschiff Enterprise in 1967 and 1968. In the course of his career he was nominated five times for the Oscar and twice for the Golden Globe in the category of best film music, but always got nothing. In 1983 he retired from show business.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Nominated for the best film music :

  • 1950: Jolson Sings Again
  • 1951: Your happiness in my hands
  • 1954: Damned for all eternity
  • 1956: picnic
  • 1957: Beloved forever

Golden Globe

Nominated for the best film music :

  • 1950: The man who wanted to rule
  • 1961: The world of Suzie Wong

Golden Raspberry

Won in the worst song category :

  • 1981: The Man with Borgart's Face from Sam Marlow, private detective with Andrew J. Fenady

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Burlingame: George Duning at 100 on filmmusicsociety.org, February 25, 2008. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Duning, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2000
Place of death San Diego