Biography for
Leo Shuken More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

8 December 1906, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death

24 July 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA

Trivia

Composer and orchestrator, best known for his western scores. Co-recipient of the Oscar for best scoring of Stagecoach (1939). Under contract to Paramount, 1937-1944, at which time he worked on several films of the director Preston Sturges. In collaboration with Jack Hayes, Shuken was a prolific writer of music for TV westerns, with many episodes of "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Wagon Train" (1957) and "The Virginian" (1962) to his credit.