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David Raksin (1912–2004)

David Raksin's father Isidore, who both conducted and owned a music store, taught his son to play piano as well as woodwind instruments at an early age. He eventually studied music with Arnold Schönberg, but became by-and-large a self-taught multi-instrumentalist (organ and percussion), as well as composer and arranger for radio and for his own jazz/dance combo which he led at the age of 12 ... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideMusic Department (149 titles)
1971 What's the Matter with Helen? (conductor)
 
1967 Lost in Space (TV series) (composer: stock music - 1 episode)
The Toymaker (1967) (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady (conductor)
 
1961-1966 Ben Casey (TV series) (composer: title music - 153 episodes)
Then, Suddenly, Panic (1966) (composer: title music)
Twenty Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak: A, B, C, D... (1966) (composer: title music)
Where Did All the Roses Go? (1966) (composer: title music)
Lullaby for a Wind-Up Toy (1966) (composer: title music)
 
1963-1964 Breaking Point (TV series) (composer: theme music - 30 episodes)
My Hands Are Clean (1964) (composer: theme music)
I, the Dancer (1964) (composer: theme music)
Confounding Her Astronomers (1964) (composer: theme music)
Never Trouble Trouble, Till Trouble Troubles You (1964) (composer: theme music)
Glass Flowers Never Drop Petals (1964) (composer: theme music)
 
1961-1962 Father of the Bride (TV series) (composer: theme music - 34 episodes)
The Visit (1962) (composer: theme music)
The Hammers (1962) (composer: theme music)
Bradley's Shack (1962) (composer: theme music)
The Band (1962) (composer: theme music)
The Hospital (1962) (composer: theme music)
 
1960 Pay or Die (musical director)
 
1959 Five Fingers (TV series) (composer: theme music - 1 episode)
Final Dream (1959) (composer: theme music)
 
1959 Gunmen from Laredo (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1959 Al Capone (conductor - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1958 A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1958 Return to Warbow (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 The Hard Man (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 20 Million Miles to Earth (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 Hellcats of the Navy (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 The Way to the Gold (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 The Guns of Fort Petticoat (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 The Phantom Stagecoach (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 Zombies of Mora Tau (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1956 Reprisal! (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1956 The White Squaw (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1956 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 Gorilla at Large (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 Wyoming Renegades (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Bad for Each Other (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 City of Bad Men (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1953 A Slight Case of Larceny (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Fast Company (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Rogue's March (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 The Bad and the Beautiful (conductor - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1952 Fearless Fagan (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 It's a Big Country (music adaptor)
 
1950 Right Cross (musical director - uncredited)
 
1950 Atom Man vs. Superman (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1948 Superman (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1948 Adventures in Silverado (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (musical supervisor)
 
1946 Behind Green Lights (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? (composer: incidental music)
 
1945 Diamond Horseshoe (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1945 Circumstantial Evidence (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 The Fighting Lady (documentary) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Sweet and Low-Down (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Till We Meet Again (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 The Canterville Ghost (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Bathing Beauty (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Home in Indiana (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Buffalo Bill (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 The Fighting Sullivans (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 The Lodger (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1944 Know Your Ally: Britain (documentary short) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Girl Crazy (composer: additional music - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Happy Land (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Guadalcanal Diary (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Paris After Dark (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Bomber's Moon (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Jitterbugs (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Du Barry Was a Lady (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 My Friend Flicka (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Three Hearts for Julia (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 They Came to Blow Up America (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Crash Dive (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1943 Something to Shout About (orchestrator)
 
1943 The Fighting Guerrillas (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Iceland (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Joan of Ozark (additional orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 In Old California (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Whispering Ghosts (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1942 The Night Before the Divorce (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Song of the Islands (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 A Gentleman at Heart (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1942 Lady for a Night (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 The Perfect Snob (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Cadet Girl (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 Rise and Shine (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 The Men in Her Life (musical director)
 
1941 Swamp Water (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Last of the Duanes (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Sun Valley Serenade (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1941 Men of the Timberland (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Great Profile (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1940 Alias the Deacon (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 West of Carson City (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Blue Bird (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Green Hornet (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Barricade (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 Chip of the Flying U (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Oklahoma Frontier (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 The Witness Vanishes (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 The Oregon Trail (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Susannah of the Mounties (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 The Gorilla (composer: stock music - uncredited, orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (music arranger - uncredited)
 
1939 Love Affair (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 Scouts to the Rescue (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Trouble at Midnight (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Missing Guest (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Young Fugitives (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Outlaw Express (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Western Trails (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Kentucky Moonshine (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1938 The Devil's Party (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Air Devils (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Lady in the Morgue (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Last Stand (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Goodbye Broadway (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 State Police (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Crime of Doctor Hallet (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Border Wolves (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Baroness and the Butler (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Forbidden Valley (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Midnight Intruder (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Goldwyn Follies (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1938 Happy Landing (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1938 The Jury's Secret (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 The Singing Outlaw (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Sh! The Octopus (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1937 Courage of the West (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Nothing Sacred (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1937 52nd Street (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1937 A Girl with Ideas (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 The Westland Case (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 The Lady Fights Back (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Idol of the Crowds (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl (assistant: Leopold Stokowski - uncredited)
 
1937 The Man Who Cried Wolf (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Reported Missing (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Stella Dallas (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1937 San Quentin (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1937 Marry the Girl (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1937 Wild West Days (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 I Cover the War (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 The Road Back (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1937 Armored Car (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Let Them Live (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Night Key (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Marked Woman (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Midnight Court (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1937 Breezing Home (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1936 Three Smart Girls (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1936 These Three (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1936 Modern Times (music arranger)
 
Show ShowComposer (112 titles)
1999 Otto Preminger (documentary)
 
1989 Lady in the Corner (TV movie)
 
1983 The Day After (TV movie)
 
1979 The Suicide's Wife (TV movie)
 
1978 The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV movie)
 
1972 Glass Houses
 
1969 Medical Center (TV series)
 
1968 Will Penny
 
1965 Sylvia
 
1964 The Patsy
 
1964 Scorpio Rising (short)
 
1962 The Soldier (short)
 
1961 Too Late Blues
 
1961 Night Tide
 
1960 My Three Sons (TV series)
 
1960 Pay or Die
 
1959 Five Fingers (TV series)
Station Break (1959)
 
1959 Al Capone
 
1959 The Redeemer (1965)
 
1958 Separate Tables
 
1957 Until They Sail
 
1957 Gunsight Ridge
 
1957 Man on Fire
 
1957 The Vintage
 
1956 Hilda Crane
 
1956 Seven Wonders of the World (documentary)
 
1956 Jubal
 
1955 The Big Combo
 
1954 Suddenly
 
1954 Apache
 
1953 The Unicorn in the Garden (short)
 
1952 Madeline (short)
 
1952 Carrie
 
1952 Pat and Mike
 
1952 Sloppy Jalopy (short)
 
1951 Kind Lady
 
1950 Right Cross
 
1950 Giddyap (short)
 
1949 Whirlpool
 
1948 Force of Evil
 
1947 Daisy Kenyon
 
1947 Forever Amber
 
1947 The Homestretch
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (uncredited)
 
1946 Smoky
 
1945 Fallen Angel
 
1944 Belle of the Yukon (uncredited)
 
1944 Laura
 
1944 Greenwich Village (uncredited)
 
1944 Tampico
 
1944 Main Street Today (short)
 
1944 Attack in the Pacific (documentary) (uncredited)
 
1943 I Dood It (uncredited)
 
1943 He Hired the Boss (uncredited)
 
1943 Something to Shout About (uncredited)
 
1942 Time to Kill (uncredited)
 
1942 Manila Calling (uncredited)
 
1942 Just Off Broadway (uncredited)
 
1942 The Postman Didn't Ring (uncredited)
 
1942 The Magnificent Dope (uncredited)
 
1942 Thru Different Eyes (uncredited)
 
1942 Prelude to War (documentary) (uncredited)
 
1942 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (uncredited)
 
1942 Who Is Hope Schuyler? (uncredited)
 
1942 On the Sunny Side (uncredited)
 
1942 Inflation (short)
 
1941 Remember the Day (uncredited)
 
1941 The Men in Her Life (uncredited)
 
1941 I'll Wait for You (uncredited)
 
1941 Ride on Vaquero (uncredited)
 
1941 Dipsy Gypsy (short)
 
1941 Dead Men Tell (uncredited)
 
1941 Western Daze (short) (as D. Raksin)
 
1940 Two Girls on Broadway (uncredited)
 
1940 Forty Little Mothers (uncredited)
 
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade (uncredited)
 
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (uncredited)
 
1939 Stanley and Livingstone (uncredited)
 
1939 Frontier Marshal (uncredited)
 
1939 Second Fiddle (uncredited)
 
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles (uncredited)
 
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning (uncredited)
 
1938 Suez (uncredited)
 
1938 The Kid Comes Back (uncredited)
 
1937 As Good as Married (uncredited)
 
1937 Wings Over Honolulu (uncredited)
 
1937 She's Dangerous (uncredited)
 
1937 The Mighty Treve (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (22 titles)
2012 Hollywood in Vienna 2012 (TV special) (music: "Laura")
 
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger (writer: "Newsreel March from the motion picture tt0044391")
 
2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV documentary) (music: "Laura")
 
2004 A Dirty Shame (writer: "Sylvia")
 
1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (writer: "Laura")
 
1996 Stealing Beauty (writer: "MY LOVE AND I")
 
1992 Mac (music: "LAURA")
 
1987 The Puppetoon Movie (writer: "The Little Broadcast")
 
1985 Remington Steele (TV series)
Coffee, Tea or Steele (1985) (music: "Laura" - uncredited)
 
1968 The Detective (writer: "Laura")
 
1968 Will Penny (writer: "Lonely Rider, The")
 
1966 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)
Episode #3.33 (1966) (music: "Laura" - uncredited)
 
1965 Love Has Many Faces ("Love Has Many Faces")
 
1965 Sylvia (music: "Sylvia")
 
1964 The Patsy (music: "I Lost My Heart in a Drive-In Movie")
 
1957 Until They Sail (music: "Until They Sail")
 
1951 Grounds for Marriage (music: "Toy Concertino" - uncredited)
 
1945 Fallen Angel (music: "Slowly")
 
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? (music: "1776 Boogie" - uncredited)
 
1943 Wintertime (music: "Waltz of the Flowers" - uncredited)
 
1942 Iceland (music: "Chinese Ballet" - uncredited)
 
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning (music: "Moroccan Nights" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
1999 Biography (TV series documentary) (acknowledgment - 1 episode)
Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel (1999) (acknowledgment)
 
1989 Night Life (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (11 titles)
2004 Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Hollywood Legenden (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (documentary)
Himself - Music Arranger of 'Modern Times'
 
2002 Cinerama Adventure (documentary)
Himself , Cinerama composer
 
1999 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself - Composer 'Laura'
Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait (1999) … Himself - Composer 'Laura'
 
1999 Otto Preminger (documentary)
 
1995 Great Performances (TV series)
Himself
 
1995 Der Klang der Bilder (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1993 Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (video documentary)
Himself - Composer
 
1992 Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (documentary)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2005 The 77th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 

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Personal Details

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Worked as a music professor at University of Southern California.

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Alternate Names:

D. Raksin
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When Alfred Hitchcock balked at the idea of having music in the film Lifeboat, because he thought the audience wouldn't know where the music was coming from in the middle of the ocean, Raksin retorted "Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from". See more »

Trivia:

Raksin started out working with dance bands and arranging music for Broadway shows. He came to Hollywood to work with Charlie Chaplin on the music for "Modern Times". Chaplin hummed and whistled melodies, and Raksin wrote them down and arranged them into the score. See more »

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Grandfather of Film Music See more »

Star Sign:

Leo