Songwriter ("Some Sunday Morning"), composer and publisher, educated in high school and in private music study. While in high school, he was a vaudeville pianist and accompanist in film theatres, then became a staff pianist for Waterson, Berlin and Snyder. He came to Hollywood in 1929, and wrote theme songs for early film musicals...See full bio »
1995Carrotblanca
(short)
(music: "Knock on Wood" - uncredited)
1988Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
(music: "The Old Apple Tree" - uncredited, "The Wish That I Wish Tonight" - uncredited, "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart" - uncredited, "Congo" - uncredited)
1950The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
(music: "A Farm off Old Broadway" - uncredited, "My Own True Love and I" - uncredited, "How Am I Going to Tell Them at the Yacht Club?" - uncredited, "The Winter Serenade" - uncredited, "Winter Comes" - uncredited)
1949Snow Carnival
(short)
(music: "Skating on the Old Mill Pond" - uncredited)
1949A Ham in a Role
(short)
(music: "The Soubrette on the Police Gazette" - uncredited)
1949Which Is Witch
(short)
(music: "Congo" - uncredited)
1947My Wild Irish Rose
(music: "Hush-a-Bye, Wee Rose of Killarney" 1947, "The Natchez and the Robert E. Lee" 1947, "Miss Lindy Lou" 1947, "There's Room in My Heart for Them All" 1947, "Minstrel Days" - uncredited, "Let Me Dream Some More" - uncredited, "Sing an Irish Song" - uncredited, "Show Me the Way to the Kerry Fair" - uncredited, "The Mirror Song" - uncredited)
1947Hollywood Wonderland
(short)
(music: "Drifting on the Rio Grande" - uncredited, "Swingin' Through the Kitchen Door" - uncredited, "Dancing Is the Darndest Fun" - uncredited, "The Open Road" - uncredited)
1947Cheyenne
(music: "I'm So in Love" - uncredited)
1947Love and Learn
(music: "Would You Believe Me?" - uncredited, "If You Are Coming Back to Me" - uncredited, "Happy Me" - uncredited, "The Moon Is in Tears Tonight" - uncredited, "I'm in a Jam with Baby" - uncredited)
1946Movieland Magic
(short)
(music: "So You Want to Be in Movies" - uncredited, "Springtime in Vienna" - uncredited, "Jitterbug Jamboree" - uncredited, "You're Lovely as You Are" - uncredited, "Two Hearts in the Moonlight" - uncredited, "The Soubrette on the Police Gazette" - uncredited, "We're Heading for the Rodeo" - uncredited, "The Good Old American Way" - uncredited)
1944Shine on Harvest Moon
(music: "We're Doing Our Best" 1944, "Don't Let Rainy Days Get You" 1944, "Who's Your Honey Lamb?" 1944 - uncredited, "So Dumb But So Beautiful" 1944, "Thank You for the Dance" 1944, "I Go for You" 1944)
1944Musical Movieland
(short)
(music: "The Toast of the Texas Frontier" - uncredited, "Song of the Mounted Police" - uncredited, "The Changing of the Guard" - uncredited, "Whistle" - uncredited, "Two Hearts in the Moonlight" - uncredited, "She'd Rather Dance Than Love" - uncredited)
1944Buckaroo Bugs
(short)
(music: "My Little Buckaroo" - uncredited, "I Can't Get Along, Little Dogie" - uncredited)
1944Songs of the Range
(short)
(music: "West of the Great Divide" - uncredited, "I Gotta Get Back to My Gal" - uncredited, "Song of the Circle Bar" - uncredited, "Song of the Plains" - uncredited, "My Texas Home" - uncredited, "Bunk-House Boys" - uncredited)
1943The Hard Way
(music: "Youth Must Have Its Fling" 1942 - uncredited, "My Little Buckaroo" 1937 - uncredited, "Good Night, Oh My Darling" 1942 - uncredited, "Thru the Courtesy of Love" - uncredited)
1942Casablanca
(music: "Knock on Wood" 1942 - uncredited)
1942Juke Girl
(music: "I Hates Love" 1942 - uncredited, "Got Me a Blue Bell" 1942 - uncredited, "No One Talks to No One No More" 1942 - uncredited, "Slaphappy Pappy" 1942 - uncredited)
1942Vaudeville Days
(short)
(music: "We're the Tops" - uncredited, "Give Me the Wide Open Spaces" - uncredited, "I Fall in Love with You" - uncredited, "How Do I Know I Love You?" - uncredited, "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" - uncredited, "Isle of Bingo Bango" - uncredited, "Little Heaven of the Seven Seas" - uncredited)
1942The Daffy Duckaroo
(short)
(music: "My Little Buckaroo" - uncredited, "I Can't Get Along, Little Dogie" - uncredited)
1942Fresh Hare
(short)
(music: "Song of the Mounted Police" - uncredited)
1942Saps in Chaps
(short)
(music: "I Can't Get Along, Little Dogie")
1941Minstrel Days
(short)
(music: "Minstrel Days" - uncredited, "The Song Is the Thing" - uncredited)
1941Those Good Old Days
(short)
(music: "My Old Shack in D-I-X-I-E" - uncredited, "Who's Your Honey Lamb?" - uncredited, "Seaside Finale" - uncredited, "Seaside Finale No. 2" - uncredited)
1941Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
(short)
(music: "I Can't Get Along, Little Dogie" - uncredited, "My Little Buckaroo" - uncredited, "Sing 'Home on the Range'" - uncredited, "Give Me a Song of the Plains" - uncredited)
1941Take the Air
(short)
(music: "What Does It Take?" - uncredited)
1941West of the Rockies
(short)
(music: "Bunk-House Boys" - uncredited, "West of the Great Divide" - uncredited, "Finale" - uncredited, "My Texas Home" - uncredited, "My Little Buckaroo" - uncredited, "Song of the Circle Bar" - uncredited, "I Gotta Get Back to My Gal" - uncredited)
1939Kid Nightingale
(music: "Hark, Hark, the Meadowlark" 1939 - uncredited)
1939The Film Fan
(short)
(music: "Thru the Courtesy of Love" - uncredited)
1939The Royal Rodeo
(short)
(music: "Sons of the Plains Are We" - uncredited, "That's the Way to Be a Buckaroo" - uncredited, "The Good Old American Way" - uncredited)
1939Naughty Neighbors
(short)
(music: "The Old Apple Tree" - uncredited)
1938Boy Meets Girl
(music: "With a Pain in My Heart and My Heart on My Sleeve" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Over the Wall
(music: "Have You Met My Lulu?" 1938 - uncredited, "Little White House on the Hill" 1938 - uncredited, "One More Tomorrow" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Heart of the North
(music: "Song of the Mounted Police" - uncredited)
1938Toyland Casino
(short)
(music: "The Old Apple Tree" - uncredited, "My Little Buckaroo" - uncredited)
1938Broadway Musketeers
(music: "Has It Ever Occurred to You?" - uncredited, "Who Said That This Isn't Love?" - uncredited, "As Sure as You're in Love" - uncredited)
1938Out Where the Stars Begin
(short)
(music: "Studio Tour" - uncredited, "You're Lovely as You Are" - uncredited, "Two Hearts in the Moonlight" - uncredited, "She'd Rather Dance Than Love" - uncredited)
1938Swing Your Lady
(music: "Dig Me a Grave in Missouri" 1937 - uncredited, "The Old Apple Tree" 1937 - uncredited, "Hillbilly from Tenth Avenue" 1937 - uncredited, "Swing Your Lady" 1937 - uncredited, "Mountain Swingeroo" 1937 - uncredited)
1938/IStardust
(short)
(music: "The Old Apple Tree" - uncredited)
1938Swingtime in the Movies
(short)
(music: "Swingin' Through the Kitchen Door" - uncredited, "Drifting on the Rio Grande" - uncredited, "The Toast of the Texas Frontier" - uncredited, "Look Out for Love" - uncredited)
1937Blazing Sixes
(music: "The Prairie Is My Home" 1937 - uncredited, "Ridin' on to Monterey" 1937 - uncredited, "In a Little Prairie Town" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Egghead Rides Again
(short)
(music: "My Little Buckaroo" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Ever Since Eve
(music: "Ever Since Eve" 1937 - uncredited, "Little Star of the Night" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Kid Galahad
(music: "The Moon Is in Tears Tonight" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Over the Goal
(music: "As Easy as Rolling Off a Log" 1937 - uncredited, "Scattin' with Mr. Bear" 1937 - uncredited, "The Carlton Fight Song" - uncredited, "Girl of My College Days" - uncredited)
1937Prairie Thunder
(music: "Over the Trail Again" 1937 - uncredited, "Give Me a Song" 1937 - uncredited, "Sunset on the Rainbow Trail" 1937 - uncredited, "The Prairie Is My Home" 1937 - uncredited, "My Texas Home" 1937 - uncredited, "In a Little Prairie Town" 1937 - uncredited, "God's Country" - uncredited)
1937Smart Blonde
(music: "Why Do I Have to Sing a Torch Song?" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Talent Scout
(music: "In the Silent Picture Days" 1937 - uncredited, "I Am the Singer, You Are My Song" 1937 - uncredited, "No No, Señor" 1937 - uncredited, "Born to Love" 1937 - uncredited, "I Was Wrong" 1937 - uncredited)
1937She Loved a Fireman
(music: "He Wants to Be a Fireman" - uncredited, "Out of the Corner of My Eye" - uncredited)
1937Expensive Husbands
(music: "Shall We Dream?" - uncredited, "Four Little Maids" - uncredited, "Echo Mountain" - uncredited)
1937Calling All Kids
(short)
(music: "Fog Over Frisco" - uncredited)
1937Land Beyond the Law
(music: "The Prairie Is My Home" - uncredited, "Song of the Circle Bar" - uncredited, "Whisper While You're Waltzing" - uncredited)
1936The Sunday Round-Up
(short)
(music: "The Old Apple Tree" - uncredited, "Roll On, Roll On" - uncredited, "The Soubrette on the Police Gazette" - uncredited, "The Open Road" - uncredited)
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