Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens (born September 13, 1909 in Mount Moriah , Missouri , † July 23, 1970 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American conductor , songwriter and composer of film music .
biography
Stevens was considered a child prodigy and received musical training from the alto and opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink . During World War II , he was director of the Southwest Pacific radio program for the War Information Bureau and musical director of the War Production Board . He began his career in the Hollywood film industry in 1942 at Syncopation and worked as a music director and composer in the creation of more than 80 film and television productions.
At the presentation of the Golden Globe Awards in 1951 , he was nominated for Endstation Moon (1950) for the Golden Globe Award for best film music . At the Oscar ceremony in 1957 was followed with Tom Adair for " Julie " from the movie Murder in the Clouds (1956) was nominated for the Academy Award for best song , before he in 1960 for the Oscar for Best Original Score for Five Pennies (The Five Pennies, 1959) was nominated.
After being nominated for an Emmy in 1962 for outstanding merits in television composed music for the episode "The Price of Tomatoes" from the television series Tonight, Dick Powell! (1961), followed in the Oscar ceremony in 1964 a final nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for A New Kind of Love (A New Kind of Love, 1963).
Other films in which he was musically involved were The Youngest Day (1951), Battle of the Worlds (1953), Shock Troop Saipan (1960) and General Pfeifendeckel (1961). Stevens has worked with film directors such as Rudolph Maté , Byron Haskin , Melville Shavelson , Phil Karlson , Irving Pichel and Andrew L. Stone throughout his career .
He was also a composer, conductor and lyricist of the music of television series such as Smoking Colts , Lost Between Alien Worlds , Three Girls and Three Boys , Herrenwirtschaft , Kobra, Take Over and Mannix .
Filmography (selection)
- 1948: All My Sons
- 1950: Destination Moon (Destination Moon)
- 1950: The Christmas Wish (The Great Rupert)
- 1951: Doomsday (When Worlds Collide)
- 1952: The City of a Thousand Dangers (The Atomic City)
- 1953: War of the Worlds (The War of the Worlds)
- 1953: The Wild (The Wild One)
- 1953: The Hitch-Hiker
- 1954: The Bob Mathias Story
- 1956: Murder in the Clouds (Julie)
- 1956: Planet of Horror (World Without End)
- 1958: Dashed the bill (The Gun Runners)
- 1959: Five Pennies (The Five Pennies)
- 1961: General Pfeifendeckel (On the Double)
- 1963: A New Kind of Love (A New Kind of Love)
- 1967: Chuka
Web links
- Leith Stevens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stevens, Leith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor, songwriter, and film music composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Moriah , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1970 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |