Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein (born April 12, 1930 in St. Louis , United States , † August 15, 1988 in Los Angeles , United States) was an American composer and film composer .

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Stein received his professional training in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the University of Washington , the Yale School of Music, and the University of Southern California . He got his first job as assistant to the musical director of the opera house in his hometown St. Louis. After his military service from 1952 to 1954, Stein returned home to St. Louis and in 1955 worked as a pianist with the local symphony orchestra. In the same year he went to Los Angeles, where Roger Corman and the film company American International Pictures (AIP) hired him as the musical director of their B-film productions . Ronald Stein kept this job until 1959 and at the same time began to write film music for a large number of Corman productions and AIP productions. There were several collaborations with AIP colleague Les Baxter , although, according to Baxter's statement, the two in-house composers of this company never met in person.

Until 1968, Ronald Stein appeared as the composer of the music for numerous B-Pictures produced by Roger Corman . At the same time and immediately afterwards, he also worked for representatives of New Hollywood cinema, including Peter Bogdanovich (his debut film Movable Targets ) and Francis Ford Coppola ( Dementia 13 , Never Love a Stranger ) and was the production manager of the never-released nudist film The Parisienne in 1964 the prudes in charge. After 1970, Ronald Stein also worked as a music producer. In the 1980s he taught at the University of Colorado in Denver . Stein also composed beyond film, his song Go Home Pigs was sampled by Eminem at Guilty Conscience in 1999 .

Filmography (small selection)

• 1955: Hot Colts and Fast Horses (Apache Woman)
• 1955: The last Seven (The Day the World Ended)
• 1956: You shall die on Sunday (Gunslinger)
• 1956: One Shot Faster (The Oklahoma Woman)
• 1956: It Conquered the World
• 1956: Fight of the Hyenas (Girls in Prison)
• 1956: Envoy of Horror (Not of This Earth)
• 1957: Attack of the Crab Monsters
• 1957: Sorority Girl riot
• 1957: Reckless and dangerous (Reform School Girl)
• 1957: Dragstrip Girl
• 1957: Invasion of the Saucer Men
• 1958: The Bonnie Parker Story
• 1958: Death Trap Pacific (Suicide Battalion)
• 1958: Kampfgeschwader Totenkopf (Jet Attack)
• 1958: Attack of the 20 Foot Woman (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
• 1958: The Paratroop Command (Paratroop Command)
• 1958: Tank Commandos
• 1959: No Mercy for Tom Dooley (The Legend of Tom Dooley)
• 1959: Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
• 1960: Sin beckons (Too Soon to Love)
• 1960: Murder dinosaurs ( Dinosaurus!)
• 1960: Raymie
• 1960: Little Shop of Horrors (The Little Shop of Horrors)
• 1961: Atlas
• 1961: Order to march to hell (War is Hell)
• 1961: Buried Alive (Premature Burial)
• 1962: Journey to the Seventh Planet
• 1962: The Rascals of Mexico (Dime with a Halo)
• 1962: The Terror - The Innocents (The Terror)
• 1962: Without Moral (Of Love and Desire)
• 1962: Hail of Steel (The Young and the Brave)
• 1962: Dementia 13
• 1963: The Witch Hunter's Torture Chamber (The Haunted Palace)
• 1964: The fastest Colt from River-Falls (Requiem for a Gunfighter)
• 1965: Colorado Saloon 12:10 p.m. (The Bounty Killer)
• 1965: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
• 1966: Blood Bath
• 1967: Spider Baby (Spider Baby or The Maddest Story Ever Told)
• 1967: Psych-Out
• 1968: Movable Targets
• 1969: Never Love a Stranger (The Rain People)
• 1969: Getting Straight
• 1975: Heroes Die Young (Prisoners)
• 1977: Ghost Killer
• 1984: Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
• 1985: Age of Consent

literature

• Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The large lexicon of film composers, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 599 f.

Web links

• Ronald Stone in the Internet Movie Database (English)