Gordon Payers

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Gordon Robert Zahler (born February 10, 1926 in Los Angeles , † December 22, 1975 there ) was an American composer .

Life

Gordon Robert Zahler was born the son of the composer Lee Zahler and his wife Rose Rosenberg. At the age of 14 years payers had an accident during physical education at the Pasadena junior high school , making it a quadriplegic suffered and from then paraplegic was. Subsequently, he was dependent on outside help throughout his life, which ruined the family financially. After his father died, he and his mother lived on the Motion Picture Relief Fund's poor relief work . When his mother finally had to go to social welfare , Zahler decided to collect and market his father's 915 compositions in a company.

In addition to a few compositions such as Return to Campus , Faust and the TV series Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown , Zahler also developed independent soundtracks for foreign films, such as the East German science fiction film The Silent Star , which was newly set to music on the US market were. His work for Ed Wood's film Plan 9 from Outer Space is also well-known , in which he took pieces of music by at least 12 different composers and combined them into an independent soundtrack.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV series, 26 episodes)
  • 1957–1959: 26 Men (TV series)
  • 1959: Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • 1960: The silent star
  • 1959–1962: Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown
  • 1960: Popeye the Sailor
  • 1964: Faust
  • 1966: Cargo Fatal (The Navy vs. The Night Monsters)
  • 1975: Return to Campus

literature

  • Chip Jacobs: Wheeling the Deal, The Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's Flashiest Quadriplegic , Behler Publications 2008, ISBN 1-933016-47-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikki Bazar: An accident waiting to happen on pasadenaweekly.com of May 18, 2006 (English), accessed on December 7, 2011
  2. ↑ Chip Jacobs: The shocking musical truth of 1950′s sci-fi ( memento of the original from February 26, 2012 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 chipjacobs.com on October 25, 2011, accessed on December 7, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chipjacobs.com
personal data
SURNAME Payer, Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payer, Gordon Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1975
Place of death los Angeles