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John Cacavas

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Composer, songwriter ("Autumn Once Again"), conductor and arranger, educated at Northwestern University (Bachelor of Music degree) and through music studies with Robert Delaney. He served in the U.S. Army and while there, arranged for the Army Band in Washington, DC. He served as an assistant to Morton Gould... See full bio »

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2000 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (TV movie)
 
1993 The Return of Ironside (TV movie)
 
1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)
– The Mole (1992)
 
1989-1991 Columbo (TV series)
– Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1991)
– Grand Deceptions (1989)
– Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)
 
1986-1991 Matlock (TV series)
– The Formula (1991)
– The Seduction (1986)
– The Affair (1986)
 
1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV movie)
 
1990 Murder in Paradise (TV movie)
 
1989 Confessional (TV movie)
 
1989 Margaret Bourke-White (TV movie)
 
1988 Dirty Dozen: The Series (TV series)
– Remember St. Luc (1988)
 
1988 The Equalizer (TV series)
– Target of Choice (1988)
– No Place Like Home (1988)
– Video Games (1988)
– The Child Broker (1988)
– A Dance on the Dark Side (1988)
 
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV movie)
 
1987 Police Story: The Freeway Killings (TV movie)
 
1987 Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV movie)
 
1985-1986 Lady Blue (TV series)
– Maximum Force (1986)
– Sylvie (1986)
– Scorpio's Sting (1986)
– Willow's Cowboy (1986)
– Death Grip (1985)
See all 14 episodes »
 
1986 A Time to Triumph (TV movie)
 
1985 Murder: By Reason of Insanity (TV movie)
 
1985 Jenny's War (TV movie)
 
1985 A Death in California (TV mini-series)
– Episode #1.2 (1985)
– Episode #1.1 (1985)
 
1985 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV series)
– Student Court (1985)
 
1985 Lady Blue (TV movie)
 
1984 Jessie (TV series)
– Pilot (1984)
 
1984 They're Playing with Fire
 
1984 Her Life as a Man (TV movie)
 
1984 The Four Seasons (TV series)
 
1984 Jessie (TV movie)
 
1983 Women of San Quentin (TV movie)
 
1983/I Mortuary
 
1983 Still the Beaver (TV movie)
 
1979-1983 ABC Weekend Specials (TV series)
– All the Money in the World (1983)
– The Red Room Riddle (1983)
– The Joke's on Mr. Little (1982)
– The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1981)
– Mayday! Mayday! (1981)
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1982 The Executioner's Song (TV movie)
 
1982 CBS Afternoon Playhouse (TV series)
– The Shooting (1982)
 
1982 American Playhouse (TV series)
– My Palikari (1982)
 
1982 Cry for the Strangers (TV movie)
 
1981 Child Bride of Short Creek (TV movie)
 
1981 Shannon (TV series)
 
1981 Gangster Wars
 
1981 California Gold Rush (TV movie)
 
1981 Separate Ways
 
1981 Hellinger's Law (TV movie)
 
1981 No Place to Hide (TV movie)
 
1981 Magnum, P.I. (TV series)
– Skin Deep (1981)
 
1980 Once Upon a Spy (TV movie)
 
1980 Hangar 18
 
1980 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
– A Dream of Jennifer (1980)
 
1977-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)
– For Old Times Sake (1980)
– The Year of the Horse (1979)
– A Very Personal Matter (1979)
– The Execution File (1979)
– The Spirit Is Willie (1979)
See all 22 episodes »
 
1979 Working Stiffs (TV series)
– Looking for Mr. Goodwrench (1979) (music by)
 
1979 Eischied (TV series)
 
1978-1979 B.J. and the Bear (TV series)
– Wheels of Fortune (1979) (music score)
– The Foundlings (1978) (music score)
 
1979 Doctors' Private Lives (TV mini-series)
 
1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV series)
– Caviar with Everything (1979)
– A Riddle for Puppets (1979)
– Word Games (1979)
 
1978 The Time Machine (TV movie)
 
1978 Human Feelings (TV movie)
 
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV series)
 
1973-1978 Kojak (TV series)
– In Full Command (1978)
– 60 Miles to Hell (1978)
– Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978)
– May the Horse Be with You (1978)
– The Halls of Terror (1978)
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1978 Superdome (TV movie)
 
1977 Relentless (TV movie)
 
1977 Murder at the World Series (TV movie)
 
1977 Airport '77
 
1977 SST: Death Flight (TV movie)
 
1976 The Bionic Woman (TV series)
– A Thing of the Past (1976)
 
1975 Friendly Persuasion (TV movie)
 
1975 Kate McShane (TV series)
– Kate McShane (1975)
 
1974 Amy Prentiss (TV series)
 
1974 Airport 1975
 
1974 The Elevator (TV movie)
 
1973 Blade
 
1973 The Satanic Rites of Dracula
 
1973 Linda (TV movie)
 
1973 She Cried Murder (TV movie)
 
1972 Horror Express
 
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2012 Germanes (TV movie) (writer: "I Wouldn't Want to Dance With You")
 
2010 Park Road (TV series)
– Vand på flaske (2010) (music: "We May Never Pass This Way Again")
– Flotte fyr (2010) (music: "We May Never Pass This Way Again")
 
2010 Di Di Hollywood (writer: "Curtain Up")
 
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (writer: "TWO LATIN LOVERS")
 
2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money (documentary) ("TRUMPET", "TIME AND AGAIN", "NATIONAL ANTHEM OF USSR")
 
2009 My One and Only (writer: "Pick and Pluck")
 
2008 Melodrama Habibi (music: "Where have you been all my life ?")
 
2008 College Road Trip (performer: "National Emblem" / arranger: "National Emblem")
 
2008 The Accidental Husband (writer: "Even Steven", "Bluebird", "Showtime")
 
2007 Live Free or Die Hard (arranger: "Hail to the Chief")
 
2006 Deck the Halls (arranger: "Star Spangled Banner")
 
2006 Les ambitieux (writer: "Here Comes The Sun", "All Day", "Out Of My Dreams")
 
2004 Sweet Destiny (arranger: "Washington Post")
 
2004 Miracle (writer: "Time and Time Again")
 
1999 Speedway Junky (writer: "Sunday Drive")
 
1996 Girls Town (writer: "Half Time Show - 2", "Rah-Rah March - 2")
 
1988 Paris by Night (music: "Noble Fanfare No.3" - uncredited)
 
1984 They're Playing with Fire (music: "Playing With Fire" / lyrics: "Playing With Fire")
 
1984 The Four Seasons (TV series)
 
1982 Bassie en Adriaan en de huilende professor (TV mini-series)
– Problemen met Robin (1982) (writer: "Theme from Airport 1975")
– Op het spoor van Joris (1982) (writer: "Theme from Airport 1975")
 
1981 Separate Ways (music: "One More Time")
 
1978 A Walk in the Sun (music: "Greek Dance" - uncredited)
 
1978 Chez nous (music: "Cathedral Kazoo")
 
1976 Buddies (music: "Whisper Samba" - uncredited)
 
1976 Liz (music: "The Fixer" - uncredited)
 
1975 Kojak (TV series)
– Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) (music: "Azure Dee")
 
1972 Pancho Villa (music: "We All End Up the Same")
 
1967 The Dirty Dozen (arranger: "National Emblem" - uncredited)
 
1963 The Victors (arranger: "Wedding March" - uncredited)
 
1958 The Bank Raiders (music: "Manhattan Cowboy" - uncredited)
 
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1986 A Time to Triumph (TV movie) (conductor)
 
1984 Jessie (TV series) (composer: theme music - 10 episodes)
– The Long Fuse (1984) (composer: theme music)
– McLaughlin's Flame (1984) (composer: theme music)
– Flesh Wounds (1984) (composer: theme music)
– The Lady Killer (1984) (composer: theme music)
– Pilot (1984) (composer: theme music)
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1984 They're Playing with Fire (conductor)
 
1983/I Mortuary (composer: songs, conductor)
 
1983 The Phantom of the Opera (TV movie) (composer: theme music)
 
1981 Separate Ways (conductor)
 
1980 Hangar 18 (conductor)
 
1979-1980 Eischied (TV series) (composer: theme music - 13 episodes)
– Buddy System (1980) (composer: theme music)
– Powder Burn (1980) (composer: theme music)
– Fire for Hire (1979) (composer: theme music)
– Friday's Child (1979) (composer: theme music)
– Spanish Eight (1979) (composer: theme music)
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1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV series) (composer: theme music)
 
1977 Airport '77 (conductor)
 
1973 Senza ragione (composer: song)
 

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Author, "It's More Than Do-Re-Mi: My Life in Music" (with Bonnie Becker Cacavas; Xlibris, 2001);"Music Arranging and Orchestration" (Belwin-Mills, 1975); "The Art of Writing Music: A Practical Book for Composers and Arrangers" (with Steve Kaplan; Alfred Publishing, 1993) See more »
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