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David Buttolph (1902–1983)

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Prolific screen composer, arranger, and conductor, educated at Juillard and the Academie fur Musik in Vienna. He played in night clubs in Vienna and Munich from 1923 to 1926, then was an opera coach in Munich, 1926-1927. In 1927 he conducted for NBC, and then became music director for WGY in Schenectady, New York. In 1933, he departed for Hollywood and joined ASCAP in 1944. See full bio »

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James David Buttolph Jr.
in New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 80) in Poway, California, USA
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1963 PT 109 (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1961-1962 Frontier Circus (TV series) (composer: theme music - 15 episodes)
– Incident at Pawnee Gun (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Daring Durandos (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Race (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Clan MacDuff (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Good Fight (1962) (composer: theme music)
See all 15 episodes »
 
Maverick (TV series) (composer: theme music - 123 episodes, 1957-1962) (composer: theme music / theme song - 1 episode, 1959)
– One of Our Trains Is Missing (1962) (composer: theme music)
– Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Money Machine (1962) (composer: theme music)
– The Troubled Heir (1962) (composer: theme music)
– Marshal Maverick (1962) (composer: theme music)
See all 124 episodes »
 
1959 Woman Obsessed (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV series) (conductor - 1 episode)
– Mother Goose (1958) (conductor)
 
1958 Home Before Dark (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1958 Onionhead (composer: music cues - uncredited, music adaptor)
 
1958 The Reluctant Debutante (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1958 No Time for Sergeants (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1958 Satan's Satellites (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1957 The Big Land (conductor - uncredited)
 
1957 Edge of the City (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1955 Jump Into Hell (musical director - uncredited)
 
1955 Pirates of Tripoli (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1955 Carolina Cannonball (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1954 Long John Silver (musical director - uncredited)
 
1954 The Gambler from Natchez (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 Gorilla at Large (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 The Boy from Oklahoma (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1954 The Great Diamond Robbery (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Prisoners of the Casbah (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Sky Commando (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 A Blueprint for Murder (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 Serpent of the Nile (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1953 She's Back on Broadway (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1952 Stop, You're Killing Me (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1952 Old Oklahoma Plains (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 Zombies of the Stratosphere (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 A Yank in Indo-China (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1952 About Face (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1952 Radar Men from the Moon (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 Street Bandits (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 Utah Wagon Train (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 A Place in the Sun (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 Million Dollar Pursuit (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1951 Target Unknown (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1950 Mystery Submarine (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1950 Pretty Baby (musical director - uncredited)
 
1950 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (music adaptor)
 
1950 Montana (musical director - uncredited)
 
1949 Always Leave Them Laughing (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1949 One Last Fling (musical director - uncredited)
 
1948 One Sunday Afternoon (music adaptor)
 
1948 June Bride (musical director - uncredited)
 
1948 Give My Regards to Broadway (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1948 California Firebrand (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 Where There's Life (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 The Wild Frontier (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 Mother Wore Tights (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1947 Oregon Trail Scouts (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1947 Blaze of Noon (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1947 Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1946 Margie (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1946 Three Little Girls in Blue (orchestra arranger - uncredited)
 
1946 Gunman's Code (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1946 Behind Green Lights (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 The Daltons Ride Again (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 The House on 92nd Street (music director - uncredited)
 
1945 Don Juan Quilligan (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1945 Molly and Me (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1945 Diamond Horseshoe (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1945 Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 The Big Bonanza (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1944 Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Firebrands of Arizona (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1944 Sweet and Low-Down (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Since You Went Away (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Lumberjack (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1944 Tampico (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Beneath Western Skies (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1944 The Fighting Sullivans (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1944 Pride of the Plains (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 No Exceptions (short) (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 Beyond the Last Frontier (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 Buckskin Empire (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 The Moon Is Down (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 China Girl (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 The Black Swan (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Henry Aldrich, Editor (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 This Above All (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Sundown Jim (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 Ball of Fire (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 Confirm or Deny (musical director)
 
1941 We Go Fast (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Dance Hall (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 That Night in Rio (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1941 Western Union (musical director)
 
1941 Romance of the Rio Grande (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1940 Chad Hanna (musical director)
 
1940 Foreign Correspondent (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Return of Frank James (musical director)
 
1940 The Man I Married (musical director)
 
1940 Four Sons (musical director)
 
1940 I Was an Adventuress (musical director)
 
1940 Star Dust (musical director - uncredited)
 
1940 Little Old New York (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1940 He Married His Wife (composer: stock music - uncredited, musical direction)
 
1940 The Blue Bird (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Hotel for Women (musical director)
 
1939 Young Mr. Lincoln (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 The Gorilla (musical director)
 
1939 Love Affair (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend (musical director)
 
1939 The Three Musketeers (composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1939 Made for Each Other (composer: music cues - uncredited)
 
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Thanks for Everything (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Suez (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 My Lucky Star (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Always Goodbye (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Josette (composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1938 Island in the Sky (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Second Honeymoon (musical director)
 
1937 Danger: Love at Work (musical director)
 
1937 Wake Up and Live (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 You Can't Have Everything (composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1937 Wee Willie Winkie (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1937 Fifty Roads to Town (musical director)
 
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! (musical director)
 
1937 Love Is News (musical director)
 
1936 Pigskin Parade (musical director)
 
1936 The Road to Glory (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1936 Till We Meet Again (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1936 Everybody's Old Man (musical director)
 
1936 Charlie Chan at the Circus (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1935 The Littlest Rebel (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1935 Show Them No Mercy! (musical director)
 
1935 This Is the Life (musical director)
 
1935 Navy Wife (musical director)
 
1935 Dante's Inferno (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1935 Our Little Girl (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1935 It's a Small World (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1935 The Lottery Lover (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1934 The White Parade (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1934 Love Time (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1934 Call It Luck (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1934 Charlie Chan's Courage (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1934 Now I'll Tell (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1934 I Believed in You (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1934 Ever Since Eve (composer: title music - uncredited)
 
1934 La cruz y la espada (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1933 I Am Suzanne! (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
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1963 The Raiders (uncredited)
 
1963 The Man from Galveston
 
1963 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series)
– The Day of the Killer (1963) (music score)
– The Day of the Long Night (1963) (music score)
– The Day of the Taboo Man (1963) (music score)
 
1963 The Virginian (TV series)
– Brother Thaddeus (1963)
– It Takes a Big Man (1963)
– The Evil That Men Do (1963)
 
1963 Arrest and Trial (TV series)
– My Name Is Martin Burnham (1963)
 
1963 PT 109
 
1963 G.E. True (TV series)
– Security Risk (1963)
 
1961-1962 Frontier Circus (TV series)
– Naomi Champagne (1962)
– Calamity Circus (1962)
– Quick Shuffle (1962)
– Mr. Grady Regrets (1962)
– The Shaggy Kings (1961)
See all 11 episodes »
 
1959-1961 Wagon Train (TV series)
– The Nancy Palmer Story (1961)
– Path of the Serpent (1961)
– The Jeremy Dow Story (1960)
– The River Crossing (1960) (music score)
– The Allison Justis Story (1960)
See all 9 episodes »
 
1959-1961 Laramie (TV series)
– Stolen Tribute (1961) (music score)
– .45 Calibre (1960)
– Street of Hate (1960)
– Night of the Quiet Men (1959) (music score)
– The Lonesome Gun (1959)
 
1960 Guns of the Timberland
 
1959 The Horse Soldiers
 
1959 Westbound
 
1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV series)
– Mother Goose (1958) (background music)
 
1958 The Deep Six
 
1957 The D.I.
 
1957 The Big Land
 
1956-1957 Conflict (TV series)
– Passage to Maranga (1957)
– Man from 1997 (1956)
 
1956 Noah's Ark (TV series)
 
1956 The Burning Hills
 
1956 A Cry in the Night
 
1956 Santiago
 
1956 The Steel Jungle
 
1956 The Lone Ranger
 
1955 Target Zero
 
1955 I Died a Thousand Times
 
1955 Casablanca (TV series)
 
1955 Jump Into Hell
 
1955 Kings Row (TV series)
 
1955 Pete Kelly's Blues (uncredited)
 
1955 The Adventures of Long John Silver (TV series)
 
1954 Long John Silver
 
1954 The Bounty Hunter
 
1954 Secret of the Incas
 
1954 Riding Shotgun
 
1954 Phantom of the Rue Morgue
 
1954 Crime Wave
 
1953 The Eddie Cantor Story (uncredited)
 
1953 Calamity Jane (uncredited)
 
1953 Thunder Over the Plains
 
1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
 
1953 South Sea Woman
 
1953 The System
 
1953 House of Wax
 
1953 She's Back on Broadway (uncredited)
 
1953 The Man Behind the Gun
 
1952 My Man and I
 
1952 The Winning Team
 
1952 Carson City
 
1952 The Sellout
 
1952 Talk About a Stranger
 
1952 This Woman Is Dangerous
 
1952 Lone Star
 
1951 Submarine Command
 
1951 Ten Tall Men (musical score)
 
1951 Fort Worth
 
1951 Fighting Coast Guard
 
1951 Along the Great Divide
 
1951 The Redhead and the Cowboy
 
1951 The Enforcer
 
1950 Three Secrets
 
1950 Pretty Baby
 
1950 Return of the Frontiersman
 
1950 Chain Lightning
 
1950 Montana
 
1949 The Story of Seabiscuit
 
1949 Roseanna McCoy
 
1949 The Girl from Jones Beach
 
1949 One Last Fling
 
1949 Look for the Silver Lining (uncredited)
 
1949 Colorado Territory
 
1949 John Loves Mary
 
1948 June Bride
 
1948 Smart Girls Don't Talk
 
1948 Rope (uncredited)
 
1948 Give My Regards to Broadway (uncredited)
 
1948 To the Victor
 
1948 Bill and Coo
 
1947 The Foxes of Harrow
 
1947 Mother Wore Tights (uncredited)
 
1947 Kiss of Death
 
1947 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (uncredited)
 
1947 Moss Rose
 
1947 Carnival in Costa Rica (uncredited)
 
1947 Boomerang!
 
1947 The Brasher Doubloon
 
1947 13 Rue Madeleine
 
1946 Home, Sweet Homicide
 
1946 Three Little Girls in Blue (uncredited)
 
1946 If I'm Lucky (uncredited)
 
1946 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
 
1946 Somewhere in the Night
 
1946 Strange Triangle
 
1946 Do You Love Me (uncredited)
 
1946 Johnny Comes Flying Home
 
1946 Claudia and David (uncredited)
 
1946 Shock
 
1945 The Spider
 
1945 Doll Face (uncredited)
 
1945 The Dolly Sisters (uncredited)
 
1945 The House on 92nd Street
 
1945 Within These Walls
 
1945 The Caribbean Mystery
 
1945 Junior Miss
 
1945 Nob Hill
 
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? (uncredited)
 
1945 The Bullfighters
 
1945 Circumstantial Evidence
 
1944 The Fighting Lady (documentary)
 
1944 Greenwich Village (uncredited)
 
1944 The Big Noise
 
1944 Till We Meet Again
 
1944 The Hitler Gang
 
1944 Buffalo Bill
 
1944 Know Your Ally: Britain (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1943 Guadalcanal Diary
 
1943 Corvette K-225
 
1943 Wintertime (uncredited)
 
1943 Bomber's Moon
 
1943 My Friend Flicka (uncredited)
 
1943 Crash Dive
 
1943 He Hired the Boss (uncredited)
 
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello (uncredited)
 
1943 Immortal Sergeant
 
1943 At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1942 American Empire (uncredited)
 
1942 Thunder Birds [Soldiers of the Air]
 
1942 Girl Trouble (uncredited)
 
1942 Street of Chance
 
1942 Iceland (uncredited)
 
1942 Manila Calling (uncredited)
 
1942 The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (uncredited)
 
1942 Berlin Correspondent (uncredited)
 
1942 Wake Island
 
1942 A-Haunting We Will Go (uncredited)
 
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point (uncredited)
 
1942 In Old California
 
1942 It Happened in Flatbush (uncredited)
 
1942 Whispering Ghosts (uncredited)
 
1942 The Mad Martindales (uncredited)
 
1942 This Gun for Hire (musical score)
 
1942 Moontide
 
1942 My Favorite Blonde
 
1942 Song of the Islands (uncredited)
 
1942 Castle in the Desert (uncredited)
 
1942 Lady for a Night
 
1941 Remember the Day (uncredited)
 
1941 Bahama Passage
 
1941 Cadet Girl (uncredited)
 
1941 Rise and Shine (uncredited)
 
1941 Confirm or Deny (uncredited)
 
1941 Swamp Water
 
1941 Great Guns (uncredited)
 
1941 Week-End in Havana (uncredited)
 
1941 Man at Large (uncredited)
 
1941 Last of the Duanes (uncredited)
 
1941 Belle Starr (uncredited)
 
1941 Sun Valley Serenade (uncredited)
 
1941 Wild Geese Calling (uncredited)
 
1941 A Very Young Lady (uncredited)
 
1941 Moon Over Miami (uncredited)
 
1941 Man Hunt (uncredited)
 
1941 For Beauty's Sake (uncredited)
 
1941 Blood and Sand (uncredited)
 
1941 Scotland Yard (uncredited)
 
1941 Murder Among Friends (uncredited)
 
1941 Tobacco Road
 
1941 Western Union (uncredited)
 
1941 Hudson's Bay (uncredited)
 
1940 Street of Memories (uncredited)
 
1940 The Mark of Zorro (uncredited)
 
1940 The Bride Wore Crutches (uncredited)
 
1940 Public Deb No. 1 (uncredited)
 
1940 Brigham Young (uncredited)
 
1940 The Return of Frank James (uncredited)
 
1940 The Man I Married (uncredited)
 
1940 Maryland (uncredited)
 
1940 Four Sons (uncredited)
 
1940 Girl in 313 (uncredited)
 
1940 Lillian Russell (uncredited)
 
1940 I Was an Adventuress (uncredited)
 
1940 Star Dust
 
1939 Swanee River (uncredited)
 
1939 Everything Happens at Night (uncredited)
 
1939 Barricade
 
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade (uncredited)
 
1939 Here I Am a Stranger (uncredited)
 
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (uncredited)
 
1939 Stanley and Livingstone (uncredited)
 
1939 Hotel for Women (uncredited)
 
1939 Susannah of the Mounties (uncredited)
 
1939 The Gorilla (uncredited)
 
1939 Return of the Cisco Kid (uncredited)
 
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles (uncredited)
 
1938 Happy Landing (uncredited)
 
1937 Heidi (uncredited)
 
1937 Thin Ice (uncredited)
 
1937 Café Metropole (uncredited)
 
1937 Seventh Heaven (uncredited)
 
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! (uncredited)
 
1936 One in a Million (uncredited)
 
1936 Lloyd's of London (uncredited)
 
1936 Reunion (uncredited)
 
1936 Pigskin Parade (uncredited)
 
1936 Ladies in Love (uncredited)
 
1936 Dimples (uncredited)
 
1936 Girls' Dormitory (uncredited)
 
1936 Under Two Flags (uncredited)
 
1936 Everybody's Old Man (uncredited)
 
1935 Way Down East (uncredited)
 
1935 This Is the Life (uncredited)
 
1935 Navy Wife (uncredited)
 
1935 Orchids to You (uncredited)
 
1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife (uncredited)
 
1935 The Daring Young Man (uncredited)
 
1935 Spring Tonic (uncredited)
 
1935 One More Spring (uncredited)
 
1934 Bright Eyes (uncredited)
 
1934 365 Nights in Hollywood (uncredited)
 
1934 Dos más uno dos (uncredited)
 
1934 Pursued (uncredited)
 
1934 Handy Andy (uncredited)
 
1934 Baby Take a Bow (uncredited)
 
1934 She Learned About Sailors (uncredited)
 
1934 The World Moves On (uncredited)
 
1934 Wild Gold (uncredited)
 
1934 Murder in Trinidad (uncredited)
 
1934 Sleepers East (uncredited)
 
1934 Hold That Girl (uncredited)
 
1934 George White's Scandals (uncredited)
 
1934 David Harum (uncredited)
 
1933 Mr. Skitch (uncredited)
 
1933 Smoky (uncredited)
 
1928 Noah's Ark (1957 reissue - uncredited)
 
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2009 Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (TV movie) (writer: "American Jig")
 
1960 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV series)
– Episode dated 7 December 1960 (1960) (music: "Maverick" - uncredited)
 
1958 Onionhead (music: "Onionhead" - uncredited)
 
1957 Maverick (TV series)
 
1948 Bill and Coo (music: "Hum a Little Tune", "Off to the Circus")
 
1942 In Old California (music: "There's Gold in the Hills")
 
1940 The Return of Frank James (arranger: "Ring, Ring de Banjo" - uncredited)
 

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