Walter Greene
Walter Greene (born January 23, 1910 in Tarkio , Missouri , † December 23, 1983 in Victorville , California ) was an American film and television composer who was nominated for an Oscar in 1946 .
biography
Greene started his career as an arranger for big bands ( Freddy Martin , Horace Heidt , Xavier Cugat , Harry James and others). He arranged, orchestrated , composed and conducted music for radio, for records, live concerts, musicals and commercials. In the 1941 directed by George Cukor romance The Woman with Two Faces with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas , he was one of three composers in the music department.
In 1946 , Greene received an Oscar nomination for Best Film Music (Musical) for the drama Why Girls Leave Home, starring Lola Lane and Sheldon Leonard . However, the trophy went to George E. Stoll and the comedy film Vacation in Hollywood .
Greene also wrote compositions for films such as the Western Jesse James' Women (1954), the film noir Teenage Doll (1957), the horror film Die Augen des Satans (The Brain from Planet Arous) (1957), the Sci-Fi Horror films Teenage Monster (1958) and Planet of the Dead Souls (War of the Satellites) (1958) and the action drama Thunder in Carolina (1960). On the music for the film The Eyes of Satan , Clifford A. Pickover wrote that the music won't let you go and reminds you of the excellent soundtrack for the original television series The Outer Limits . In fact, the brain planet Arous seems to be incomplete and lifeless without the music that increases the tension and reflects the sensations of the alien brain. Ross Care spoke of a "great score" for both The Eyes of Satan and Teenage Monster .
However, the composer is best known for his music composed for United Artists productions, such as the Gene Autry Show , the Western TV series The Range Rider and, in particular, the TV series The Pink Panther , The Inspector and Misterjaw , animated short films that Created in the 1960s and 1970s, where it partly replaced William Lava , who died in 1971 . Greene wrote several variations of the famous Pink Panther theme composed by Henry Mancini . He also created the music for six Looney Tunes , an animated series from Warner Bros. in 1960 was Greene as a music editor and composer member of the music team for the damage in co-production with Poland science fiction film of the DEFA The Silent Star , Title in Germany Germany spaceship Venus does not answer . He is also known for his music for the episodes of the television series Tarzan, broadcast in the USA in 1966 . In the years that followed, the composer was mainly active in the field of short films; his last listed film is the animated short film comedy To Catch a Halibut from 1978.
Filmography (selection)
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Awards
- 1946 : Oscar nomination in the category “Best Film Music” for the film drama Why Girls Leave Home
Web links
- Walter Greene in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Greene in the IMDb
- ↑ The 18th Academy Awards | 1946 at oscars.org (English)
- ↑ Clifford Pickover, A. Pickover: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection, Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2007 (English)
- ↑ Not Quite a Billion Dollar Brain (But a great Score) Walter Greene The Brain from Planet Arous & Teenage Monster at de.scribd.com (English). Retrieved January 15, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Greene, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tarkio , Missouri , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1983 |
| Place of death | Victorville , California , United States |