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Charles Henderson (I) (1907–1970)

Songwriter ("Deep Night"), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and author, educated at Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University (cum laude), BA, and a student of Walter Piston, Ernst Toch, and Victor Bay. He was a pianist, arranger and vocal arranger for orchestras, musicals and radio. Between 1949 and 1951 he was a composer... See full bio »

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Filmography

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1962 The Music Man (vocal arrangements)
 
1959 Say One for Me (vocal supervisor)
 
1959 Never Steal Anything Small (vocal supervisor)
 
1958 Mardi Gras (vocal supervisor)
 
1958 Sing Boy Sing (vocal supervisor)
 
1957 The Enemy Below (vocal supervisor)
 
1957 April Love (vocal supervisor)
 
1957 The Helen Morgan Story (vocal arranger)
 
1957 The Pajama Game (vocal arranger)
 
1956 The Best Things in Life Are Free (vocal supervisor)
 
1956 The Vagabond King (vocal arranger)
 
1954 Living It Up (vocal arranger)
 
1953 The Eddie Cantor Story (vocal arranger)
 
1953 So This Is Love (vocal arranger)
 
1953 The Farmer Takes a Wife (vocal director)
 
1953 She's Back on Broadway (vocal arranger)
 
1952 Cattle Town (vocal arrangements)
 
1948 Joan of Arc (vocal director)
 
1948 When My Baby Smiles at Me (vocal music director)
 
1948 That Lady in Ermine (vocal director)
 
1948 Give My Regards to Broadway (vocal arranger - uncredited)
 
1948 Sitting Pretty (vocal arranger - uncredited)
 
1948 You Were Meant for Me (vocal arranger)
 
1947 The Bishop's Wife (vocal director)
 
1947 Mother Wore Tights (vocal director)
 
1947 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (musical director)
 
1947 The Unfaithful (music: song - uncredited)
 
1947 Carnival in Costa Rica (musical director)
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (associate musical director)
 
1946 Wake Up and Dream (vocal arranger - uncredited)
 
1946 Margie (vocal arranger)
 
1946 Home, Sweet Homicide (vocal arranger - uncredited)
 
1946 Three Little Girls in Blue (music arranger: vocal arrangements)
 
1946 If I'm Lucky (associate music director)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (vocal arranger)
 
1946 Do You Love Me (musical director)
 
1946 Blonde Alibi (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 Doll Face (musical director)
 
1945 House of Dracula (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 The Dolly Sisters (musical director)
 
1945 State Fair (musical director)
 
1945 Road to Alcatraz (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1945 Nob Hill (musical director)
 
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? (musical director)
 
1945 Diamond Horseshoe (composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1944 Something for the Boys (musical director)
 
1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling (composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1944 Greenwich Village (musical director)
 
1944 Sweet and Low-Down (musical director)
 
1944 Pin Up Girl (musical director)
 
1944 Four Jills in a Jeep (musical director)
 
1943 The Gang's All Here (musical director)
 
1943 Calling Dr. Death (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 The Mad Ghoul (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady (musical director)
 
1943 Wintertime (musical director)
 
1943 Coney Island (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1943 Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello (composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1943 The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Who Done It? (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Iceland (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Half Way to Shanghai (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Bambi (choral arrangements)
 
1942 Footlight Serenade (musical director)
 
1942 Junior G-Men of the Air (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Top Sergeant (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 You're Telling Me (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 My Gal Sal (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1942 Gang Busters (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Unseen Enemy (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 The Mad Doctor of Market Street (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Frisco Lil (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Treat 'Em Rough (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1942 Bombay Clipper (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Paris Calling (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Sea Raiders (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 A Dangerous Game (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Hold That Ghost (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Hello, Sucker (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Bachelor Daddy (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Men of the Timberland (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 The Black Cat (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Mutiny in the Arctic (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Horror Island (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Man Made Monster (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Mr. Dynamite (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1941 Meet the Chump (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Dark Streets of Cairo (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Junior G-Men (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Meet the Wildcat (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Public Deb No. 1 (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1940 The Return of Frank James (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Four Sons (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Hot Steel (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Ski Patrol (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Buck Benny Rides Again (musical director)
 
1940 Enemy Agent (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Black Friday (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1940 Broadway Melody of 1940 (vocal and orchestration)
 
1940 Music in My Heart (vocal arranger)
 
1939 The Big Guy (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Missing Evidence (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Legion of Lost Flyers (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 One Hour to Live (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Second Fiddle (music instructor - uncredited)
 
1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up (vocal adaptor)
 
1939 The Spirit of Culver (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1939 Society Smugglers (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Newsboys' Home (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Exposed (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Little Tough Guys in Society (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Red Barry (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 That Certain Age (composer: stock music - uncredited, vocal supervisor)
 
1938 Freshman Year (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Missing Guest (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Mr. Chump (lyrics: song)
 
1938 Letter of Introduction (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Outlaw Express (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Devil's Party (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 The Lady in the Morgue (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1938 Mad About Music (vocal supervisor - as Charles E. Henderson)
 
1938 The Spy Ring (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 You're a Sweetheart (vocal supervisor)
 
1937 Prescription for Romance (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Adventure's End (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Merry Go Round of 1938 (composer: title music - uncredited, music arranger - uncredited)
 
1937 That's My Story! (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Behind the Mike (composer: title music - uncredited, musical director)
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl (composer: additional music - uncredited)
 
1937 The Life of the Party (vocal arranger)
 
1937 The Man Who Cried Wolf (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 New Faces of 1937 (vocal arrangements)
 
1937 Wings Over Honolulu (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Oh, Doctor (composer: stock music - uncredited)
 
1937 Top of the Town (composer: stock music - uncredited, vocal arranger)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (51 titles)
1991 My Own Private Idaho (music: "Deep Night" / lyrics: "Deep Night")
 
1967 Bonnie and Clyde (music: "Deep Night")
 
1958 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (lyrics: "A TIME TO LOVE" - uncredited)
 
1957 The Helen Morgan Story (music: "Deep Night" - uncredited)
 
1956 Bus Stop (lyrics: "The Right Kind" 1948 - uncredited)
 
1955 Ain't Misbehavin' (music: "THE DIXIE MAMBO")
 
1954 Young at Heart (writer: "Hold Me in Your Arms" - uncredited)
 
1953 The Farmer Takes a Wife (lyrics: "I Could Cook" 1953 - uncredited)
 
1953 The Kid from Left Field (writer: "The Right Kind" - uncredited)
 
1953 She's Back on Broadway (lyrics: "Mardi Gras" - uncredited, "Behind the Mask" - uncredited)
 
1952 With a Song in My Heart (lyrics: "THE RIGHT KIND")
 
1950 Night and the City (music: "The Right Kind" - uncredited)
 
1949 Thieves' Highway (music: "The Right Kind" - uncredited)
 
1949 Mother Is a Freshman (lyrics: "Moontide" - uncredited)
 
1949 A Letter to Three Wives (music: "Crazy Eddie" - uncredited)
 
1949 Chicken Every Sunday (lyrics: "Tucson High School Alma Mater" - uncredited)
 
1948 Apartment for Peggy (lyrics: "Hail to Thee, Dear Alma Mater" - uncredited)
 
1948 Road House (music: "The Right Kind" - uncredited)
 
1948 You Were Meant for Me (writer: "Can't Sleep a Wink" - uncredited)
 
1947 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (music: "Songs of Love" - uncredited, "Madame du Barry" - uncredited, "The Sentry Song" - uncredited, "Come to the St. Louis Fair" - uncredited)
 
1947 The Unfaithful (music: "Deep Night" - uncredited)
 
1946 Home, Sweet Homicide (lyrics: "As If I Didn't Have Enough on My Mind" - uncredited)
 
1946 Do You Love Me (lyrics: "AS IF I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH ON MY MIND" - uncredited)
 
1946 Dragonwyck (lyrics: "CREOLE LULLABY" - uncredited)
 
1945 Doll Face (lyrics: "The Parisian Trot" - uncredited)
 
1945 The Dolly Sisters (music: "We Have Been Around" - uncredited, "Don't Be Too Old Fashioned Old Fashioned Girl" - uncredited)
 
1945 Utah (writer: "Utah")
 
1945 Hangover Square (lyrics: "Have You Seen Joe?" - uncredited, "So Close to Paradise" - uncredited, "Why Do They Wake Me Up So Early in the Morning?" - uncredited, "All for You" - uncredited, "Gay Love" - uncredited)
 
1944 San Fernando Valley (music: "Sweeter Than You", "My Hobby Is Love" / lyrics: "Sweeter Than You", "My Hobby Is Love")
 
1944 Song of Nevada (writer: "Nevada", "What Are We Going to Do?", "Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium")
 
1944 The Yellow Rose of Texas (writer: "Lucky Me, Unlucky You" - uncredited)
 
1944 Jamboree (writer: "Maggie Went to Aggie")
 
1944 The Lodger (lyrics: "The Parisian Trot" - uncredited)
 
1943 Paris After Dark (lyrics: "The Sun Will Shine Again")
 
1943 Hoosier Holiday (writer: "Boogie Woogie Hoe-Down")
 
1943/I Swing Your Partner (writer: "Swing Your Partner", "Cheese-Cake")
 
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello (music: "I've Got a Gal in Every Port" - uncredited)
 
1943 The Fighting Guerrillas (lyrics: "Das Horst Wessel-Lied" - uncredited)
 
1943 Mountain Rhythm (writer: "Welcome to Tudor" - uncredited, "Hill-Billy Bond Song" - uncredited)
 
1942 Moontide (writer: "Moontide" - uncredited)
 
1940 Lillian Russell (music: "Back in the Days of Old Broadway" 1940 - uncredited, "Waltz Is King" 1940 - uncredited / lyrics: "Back in the Days of Old Broadway" 1940 - uncredited)
 
1940 Fantasia (performer: "Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6" 1825)
 
1940 Love, Honor and Oh Baby! (writer: "Wasn't It You")
 
1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up (music: "Invitation to the Dance" - uncredited)
 
1938 Swing, Sister, Swing (writer: "Wasn't It You?", "Baltimore Bubble")
 
1938 Mr. Chump (lyrics: "It's Against the Law in Arkansas")
 
1937 New Faces of 1937 (music: "New Faces" 1937 / lyrics: "New Faces" 1937)
 
1937 Varsity Show (writer: "Give Us a Drink" 1937 - uncredited)
 
1937 Wings Over Honolulu (writer: "Wasn't It You?" - uncredited)
 
1932 Rudy Vallee Melodies (short) (music: "DEEP NIGHT")
 
1929 Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees (short) ("Deep Night")
 
Show ShowComposer (15 titles)
1945 The Dolly Sisters (uncredited)
 
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady (uncredited)
 
1942 Springtime in the Rockies (uncredited)
 
1942 Footlight Serenade (uncredited)
 
1941 Week-End in Havana (uncredited)
 
1941 Moon Over Miami (uncredited)
 
1938 The Storm (uncredited)
 
1938 Service de Luxe (uncredited)
 
1938 Youth Takes a Fling (uncredited)
 
1938 The Road to Reno (uncredited)
 
1938 Little Tough Guy (uncredited)
 
1938 The Rage of Paris (uncredited)
 
1938 Wives Under Suspicion (uncredited)
 
1937 You're a Sweetheart (uncredited)
 
1937 We Have Our Moments (uncredited)
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
1943 Seeds of Freedom
Speaker
 
1935 Seeing Nellie Home (short) (as Charles Henderson and the Master Singers)
 
1930 Follow the Leader (as C. Henderson)
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Book: "How to Sing for Money".

Alternate Names:

C. Henderson | Charles E. Henderson | Charles Henderson and the Master Singers
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Capricorn