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Pete Rugolo (1915–2011)

Composer | Music Department | Soundtrack

One of the great arrangers of the Big Band era, Sicilian-born Peter Rugolo was five years old when his family moved to Santa Rosa, California. He attended San Francisco College and in the 1930's studied composition under the classical composer Darius Milhaud. After military service in World War II... See full bio »

Born:

Pietro Rugolo
in San Piero, Patti, Sicily, Italy

Died:

(age 95) in Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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1997 This World, Then the Fireworks
 
1984 Blue Thunder (TV series)
– The Godchild (1984)
 
1983 Fantasy Island (TV series)
– Edward/The Extraordinary Miss Jones (1983)
 
1983 O'Malley (TV movie)
 
1982 For Lovers Only (TV movie)
 
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
 
1981 Underground Aces
 
1979 The Last Convertible (TV mini-series)
 
1976-1979 Family (TV series)
– Moment of Truth (1979) (music by)
– Gifts (1978)
– Changes (1978) (music by)
– Fear of Shadows (1978)
– Crossing Over (1978)
See all 28 episodes »
 
1978 The Jordan Chance (TV movie)
 
1977 Carter Country (TV series)
 
1977 The San Pedro Bums (TV movie)
 
1976 Kingston: Confidential (TV series)
 
1976 Foxtrot
 
1976 Jigsaw John (TV series)
 
1975 The Invisible Man (TV series)
– The Klae Dynasty (1975)
– Pin Money (1975)
– Stop When Red Lights Flash (1975)
– Go Directly to Jail (1975)
– Barnard Wants Out (1975)
See all 6 episodes »
 
1975 M*A*S*H (TV series)
– Welcome to Korea (1975)
 
1975 The Blue Knight (TV series)
 
1975 Last Hours Before Morning (TV movie)
 
1975 Death Stalk (TV movie)
 
1974 Death Cruise (TV movie)
 
1974 Police Woman (TV series)
– Anatomy of Two Rapes (1974)
– Warning: All Wives (1974)
 
1974 Movin' On (TV series)
– Roadblock (1974)
 
1974 The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (TV movie)
 
1973 Letters from Three Lovers (TV movie)
 
1973 Drive Hard, Drive Fast (TV movie)
 
1973 Toma (TV series)
– Pilot (1973)
 
1973 The Letters (TV movie)
 
1973 Set This Town on Fire (TV movie)
 
1972 The Rookies (TV series)
– The Good Die Young (1972)
 
1972 Cool Million (TV series)
 
1971-1972 Alias Smith and Jones (TV series)
– High Lonesome Country (1972) (as Gene Rugolo)
– Miracle at Santa Marta (1971)
– Smiler with a Gun (1971)
– Jailbreak at Junction City (1971)
– The Day They Hanged Kid Curry (1971)
See all 8 episodes »
 
1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)
– Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain (1972)
 
1969-1972 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV series)
– Lisa, I Hardly Knew You (1972)
– In Sudden Darkness (1972)
– The Long Morning After: Part 2 (1972)
– Justice Is a Sometime Thing (1971)
– In Defense of Ellen McKay (1971)
See all 16 episodes »
 
1971 How to Steal an Airplane (TV movie)
 
1971 The Death of Me Yet (TV movie)
 
1971 Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (TV movie)
 
1971 Do You Take This Stranger? (TV movie)
 
1970 Don Knotts' Nice Clean, Decent, Wholesome Hour (TV movie)
 
1970 The Young Country (TV movie)
 
1970 The Challengers (TV movie)
 
1969 The Lonely Profession (TV movie)
 
1968 The Sound of Anger (TV movie)
 
1968 The Outsider (TV series)
 
1968 The Sweet Ride
 
1965-1968 Run for Your Life (TV series)
– The Exchange (1968)
– Life Among the Meat-Eaters (1968)
– Beware My Love (1968)
– The Dead on Furlough (1968)
– Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again (1968)
See all 77 episodes »
 
1968 Lost in Space (TV series)
– The Promised Planet (1968)
 
1967 Felony Squad (TV series)
– My Mommy Got Lost (1967)
 
1967 The Outsider (TV movie)
 
1963-1967 The Fugitive (TV series)
– The Judgment: Part II (1967) (as Peter Rugolo)
– The Judgment: Part I (1967) (as Peter Rugolo)
– The Shattered Silence (1967) (as Peter Rugolo)
– The Walls of Night (1967)
– Dossier on a Diplomat (1967)
See all 80 episodes »
 
1966 Blue Light (TV series)
– The Return of Elm (1966) (music by)
 
1964-1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV series)
– Twixt the Cup and the Lip (1965)
– Rapture at Two-Forty (1965)
– My Enemy, This Town (1964)
– A Truce to Terror (1964)
 
1965 Two's Company (TV movie) (music)
 
1963 The Virginian (TV series)
– A Portrait of Marie Valonne (1963) (music score)
– If You Have Tears (1963)
 
1963 Arrest and Trial (TV series)
– Tears from a Silver Dipper (1963)
 
1962-1963 Leave It to Beaver (TV series)
– Family Scrapbook (1963)
– The Clothing Drive (1963)
– Beaver Sees America (1963)
– The All-Night Party (1963)
– Wally's Practical Joke (1963)
See all 28 episodes »
 
1962-1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)
– I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury (1963)
– Bonfire (1962)
 
1962 The Untouchables (TV series)
– The Chess Game (1962)
– The Night They Shot Santa Claus (1962)
 
1961-1962 Checkmate (TV series)
– Side by Side (1962)
– A Chant of Silence (1962)
– The Yacht-Club Gang (1962)
– A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Game (1962)
– To the Best of My Recollection (1961)
See all 7 episodes »
 
1962 87th Precinct (TV series)
– Man in a Jam (1962)
 
1961 The Investigators (TV series)
 
1961 Ichabod and Me (TV series)
 
1961 My Three Sons (TV series)
– Trial by Separation (1961)
 
1960-1961 Thriller (TV series)
– Papa Benjamin (1961)
– The Fingers of Fear (1961)
– The Merriweather File (1961)
– Choose a Victim (1961)
– Man in the Cage (1961)
See all 20 episodes »
 
1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV series)
– Design for Murder (1959)
 
1959 Jack the Ripper (US version)
 
1952 Glory Alley (uncredited)
 
1951 The Strip (uncredited)
 
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1977-1979 Carter Country (TV series) (composer: theme music - 44 episodes)
– The Abominable Showman (1979) (composer: theme music)
– The Prisoner of Clinton Corners (1979) (composer: theme music)
– Teddy's Folly (1979) (composer: theme music)
– The Big Move: Part 3 (1979) (composer: theme music)
– The Big Move: Part 2 (1979) (composer: theme music)
See all 44 episodes »
 
1976 Foxtrot (conductor)
 
1975 Death Stalk (TV movie) (conductor)
 
1972 Cool Million (TV series) (composer: theme music - 5 episodes)
– The Million Dollar Misunderstanding (1972) (composer: theme music)
– The Abduction of Baynard Barnes (1972) (composer: theme music)
– Assault on Gavaloni (1972) (composer: theme music)
– Hunt for a Lonely Girl (1972) (composer: theme music)
– Pilot (1972) (composer: theme music)
 
1969 The Outsider (TV series) (composer: theme music - 1 episode)
– Periwinkle Blue (1969) (composer: theme music)
 
1965-1967 Run for Your Life (TV series) (composer: theme music - 2 episodes)
– The Mustafa Embrace (1967) (composer: theme music)
– The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan (1965) (composer: theme music)
 
1965 Rawhide (TV series) (composer: stock music - 1 episode)
– Duel at Daybreak (1965) (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1964 The Killers (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1963 Mr. Novak (TV series) (orchestrator - 1 episode)
– First Year, First Day (1963) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1962 Her Bikini Never Got Wet (composer: stock music)
 
1961-1962 87th Precinct (TV series) (music score - 29 episodes)
– Girl in the Case (1962) (music score)
– The Last Stop (1962) (music score)
– New Man in the Precinct (1962) (music score)
– Ramon (1962) (music score)
– Idol in the Dust (1962) (music score)
See all 29 episodes »
 
1960-1962 Thriller (TV series) (composer: theme music - 15 episodes)
– The Specialists (1962) (composer: theme music - uncredited)
– The Lethal Ladies (1962) (composer: theme music - uncredited)
– The Innocent Bystanders (1962) (composer: theme music - uncredited)
– Man of Mystery (1962) (composer: theme music - uncredited)
– Kill My Love (1962) (composer: theme music - uncredited)
See all 15 episodes »
 
1960 Where the Boys Are (composer: original dialectic jazz)
 
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV series) (composer: theme music - 65 episodes, 1958-1960) (conductor - 1 episode, 1959)
– The Mouse (1960) (composer: theme music)
– Running Scared (1960) (composer: theme music)
– East of Danger (1960) (composer: theme music)
– Accent on Murder (1960) (composer: theme music)
– The Lovely Fraud (1960) (composer: theme music)
See all 65 episodes »
 
1960 The Tab Hunter Show (TV series) (composer: theme music)
 
1958-1959 The Thin Man (TV series) (composer: theme music - 35 episodes)
– Paradise Discovered (1959) (composer: theme music)
– Cherchez la Sexpot (1959) (composer: theme music)
– Bat McKidderick (1959) (composer: theme music)
– Cold Cargo (1959) (composer: theme music)
– Dear Dead Days (1959) (composer: theme music)
See all 35 episodes »
 
1959 The Naked Venus (composer: mambo sequence)
 
1953 Easy to Love (orchestrator)
 
1953 Latin Lovers (orchestrator)
 
1953 The Girl Who Had Everything (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1952 Glory Alley (orchestrator)
 
1952 Skirts Ahoy! (composer: music cues - uncredited, orchestrations)
 
1952 Invitation (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
1951 The Strip (orchestrator)
 
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2010 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV series)
– Doom's IV #1/2 (2010) ("Finger of Fear")
– Strange Adventures #136 (2010) ("Finger of Fear")
 
1981 Buddy Buddy (arranger: "Cecilia")
 
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (music: "Whole Lot of Money")
 
1958 Les tricheurs (performer: "Oscar & Pete's Blues" / as Rugolo)
 
1957 This Could Be the Night (music: "Mambo Cambo" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas
Conductor
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary) (grateful acknowledgment: to the music arrangers and orchestrators)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1998 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Nat King Cole: Loved in Return (1998) … Himself
 

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Alternate Names:

Gene Rugolo | Peter Rugolo
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Registered 364 compositions with ASCAP, then moved to BMI where he logged a further 508 titles. See more »

Star Sign:

Capricorn