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Milton Ager (1893–1979)
Composer, publisher, pianist, and arranger. He was educated at Chicago's McKinley High School, and did piano accompaniment for film and vaudeville theatres, later accompanying singers and song-pluggers. Moving to New York in 1913, he arranged for Waterson, Berlin and Snyder, and for Wm. Jerome Co. He served in the US Army Morale Division during WW...
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Born:in Chicago, Illinois, USADied:(age 85) in Los Angeles County, California, USA |
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2020
Perry Mason
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Chapter One
(2020)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
2016-2018
The Man in the High Castle
(TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Sabra
(2018)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
- Detonation
(2016)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2017
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Kate McKinnon/Patton Oswalt/Wiz Khalifa feat. Ty Dolla $ign
(2017)
... (music: "Happy Feet" - uncredited)
2017
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets
(2017)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2017
Z: The Beginning of Everything
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The It Girl
(2017)
... (writer: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
2015
Indian Summers
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1
(2015)
... (writer: "Happy Days are Here Again" - uncredited)
Boardwalk Empire
(TV Series) (music - 2 episodes, 2011 - 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2014)
- What Jesus Said
(2014)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
- Blue Bell Boy
(2012)
... (music: "Louisville Lou" - uncredited)
- Two Boats and a Lifeguard
(2011)
... (music: "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" - uncredited)
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
(TV Mini-Series documentary) (music - 1 episode)
- The Rising Road (1933-1939)
(2014)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
2014
Rugby League: Challenge Cup
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Semi-Final: Castleford vs. Widnes
(2014)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2013
Rude Tube
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- WTF?!?
(2013)
... (writer: "Happy Feet" - uncredited)
2012
Bunheads
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Pilot
(2012)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1992-2012
The Simpsons
(TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
- At Long Last Leave
(2012)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
- Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
(1992)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2011
The Oprah Winfrey Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Living Legend Debbie Reynolds and Her Daughter Icon Carrie Fisher
(2011)
... (writer: "Happy Days are Here Again')
2010
Late Show with David Letterman
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #18.35
(2010)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2010
Glee
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Duets
(2010)
... (music: "Happy Days are Here Again/Get Happy" - uncredited)
2010
Mad Men
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Blowing Smoke
(2010)
... (writer: "Trust In Me" - uncredited)
2010
Two and a Half Men
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- A Bottle of Wine and a Jackhammer
(2010)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2010
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard - September 26,2009
(Video) (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
2009
True Blood
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Hard-Hearted Hannah
(2009)
... (writer: "Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah)", "Hardhearted Hannah (Jazz Vampires)" (uncredited))
2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
(Video documentary) (writer: "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" - uncredited)
2009
Law & Order
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Lucky Stiff
(2009)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2008
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
(Video documentary) (music: "Song of the Dawn", "A Man of My Own" - uncredited)
2007
EastEnders
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 13 August 2007
(2007)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
Doctor Who
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 2007) (music - 1 episode, 2007)
- Evolution of the Daleks
(2007)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
- Daleks in Manhattan
(2007)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2005
House
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Deception
(2005)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
2004
Gilmore Girls
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
(2004)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2002
American Idol
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Jump, Jive and Fail!
(2002)
... (writer: "Hard-Hearted Hannah")
2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.95
(2002)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
2000
Lindenstraße
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Leere Worte
(2000)
... (music: "Wochenend und Sonnenschein" - uncredited)
1999
The West Wing
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Five Votes Down
(1999)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1998
Heat of the Sun
(TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Hide in Plain Sight
(1998)
... (writer: "Ain't She Sweet")
1997
American Masters
(TV Series documentary) (music - 1 episode)
- Vaudeville
(1997)
... (music: "Hungry Women" - uncredited)
1997
The Harmonists
(music: "Auf Wiederseh'n, my Dear") / (writer: "Wochenend und Sonnenschein (Happy Days are Here Again)")
1995
Keeping Up Appearances
(TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball
(1995)
... ("Happy Days Are Here Again")
1995
Women of the House
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- You Talk Too Much
(1995)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1993
Demob
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1
(1993)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1992
The Wonder Years
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Politics as Usual
(1992)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1992
The Golden Girls
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Journey to the Center of Attention
(1992)
... (writer: "Hardhearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah)")
1992
Are You Being Served? Again!
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- American Tourists
(1992)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1991
Doogie Howser, M.D.
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Presumed Guilty
(1991)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1990
You Rang, M'Lord?
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Wounds of War
(1990)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet")
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures
(TV Series short) (music - 1 episode)
- Hero Hamton
(1990)
... (music: "Happy Feet" - uncredited)
1990
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
(TV Mini-Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.2
(1990)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1989
'Allo 'Allo!
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Nouvion Oars
(1989)
... (music: "Happy Feet" - uncredited)
1989
War and Remembrance
(TV Mini-Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Part X
(1989)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1989
Matlock
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Starlet
(1989)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1988
Moonlighting
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- And the Flesh Was Made Word
(1988)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1983
Zeg 'ns Aaa
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- De verbouwing
(1983)
... (writer: "Happpy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1983
Webster
(TV Series) (1 episode)
- Saying Goodbye
(1983)
... ("Happy Days Are Here Again", uncredited)
1983
Faerie Tale Theatre
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Sleeping Beauty
(1983)
... (writer: "I'm Nobody Baby")
M*A*S*H
(TV Series) (music - 6 episodes, 1972 - 1982) (writer - 3 episodes, 1973 - 1982)
- The Joker Is Wild
(1982)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
- Sons and Bowlers
(1982)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
- Snap Judgement
(1981)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
- Mr. and Mrs. Who?
(1979)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
- There Is Nothing Like a Nurse
(1974)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1979
Charlie's Angels
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Rosemary, for Remembrance
(1979)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1978
Pennies from Heaven
(TV Mini-Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Down Sunnyside Lane
(1978)
... (music: "Seein' Is Believin'" - uncredited)
1977
The Muppet Show
(TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
- Dom DeLuise
(1977)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet")
- Madeline Kahn
(1977)
... (music: "Happy Feet")
1975
Upstairs, Downstairs
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Joke Over
(1975)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet?" - uncredited)
1975
Porridge
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Disturbing the Peace
(1975)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1974
All in the Family
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Bunkers and Inflation: Part 1
(1974)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1974
The Ernie Sigley Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 23 July 1974
(1974)
... (writer: "Roaring Twenties medley: I Want to Be Happy / When You're Smiling / Yes Sir, That's My Baby / Margie / Carolina in the Morning / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue / How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)? / Happy Days Are Here Again'")
1973
The Benny Hill Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Show 19
(1973)
... (writer: "Happy Feet")
1973
Maude
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Maude's Musical
(1973)
... (music: "Hard Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah")
1973
The Graham Kennedy Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 28 June 1973
(1973)
... (writer: "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes")
1972
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
(TV Movie) (lyrics: "Happy Days Are Here Again") / (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
The Dean Martin Show
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode, 1971) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
- Episode #7.14
(1971)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
- Episode #2.25
(1967)
... (writer: "I'm Nobody's Baby" - uncredited)
1969
Petticoat Junction
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Golden Spike Ceremony
(1969)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1968
Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers
(TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.9
(1968)
... (music: "Crazy Words - Crazy Tune" - uncredited)
- Episode #1.4
(1968)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1967
Adam Adamant Lives!
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Wish You Were Here
(1967)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1967
Center Stage
(TV Mini-Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The Barbara McNair and Duke Ellington Special
(1967)
... (music: "Big Bad Bill")
1967
Gomer Pyle: USMC
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Go Blow Your Horn
(1967)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1966
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Jingle Bells Affair
(1966)
... (writer: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
1966
The Danny Kaye Show
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #4.4
(1966)
... (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - uncredited)
Bandstand
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode, 1966) (writer - 1 episode, 1963)
- Episode dated 23 July 1966
(1966)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet")
- Episode dated 13 February 1963
(1963)
... (writer: "I'm Nobody's Baby")
1965
Ship of Fools
(lyrics: "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" - uncredited) / (music: "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" - uncredited)
1965
Hollywood a Go Go
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.9
(1965)
... (writer: "Hard Headed Hannah")
1963
The Jack Benny Program
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Spanish Sketch
(1963)
... (writer: "Hard Hearted Hannah")
Hawaiian Eye
(TV Series) (music - 3 episodes, 1960 - 1961) (writer - 1 episode, 1963)
- Two Too Many
(1963)
... (writer: "Trust in Me" - uncredited)
- Father, Dear Father
(1961)
... (music: "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes" - uncredited)
- Vanessa Vanishes
(1960)
... (music: "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes" - uncredited)
- Assignment: Manila
(1960)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet")
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Jethro Goes to School
(1962)
... (writer: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1962
I've Got a Secret
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 18 June 1962
(1962)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1962
The Danny Thomas Show
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Casanova Junior
(1962)
... (writer: "I Wonder What's Become Of Sally?" - uncredited)
1959-1961
77 Sunset Strip
(TV Series) (music - 5 episodes)
- Caper in E Flat
(1961)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
- The Laurel Canyon Caper
(1960)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
- Perfect Setup
(1960)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
- Ten Cents a Death
(1960)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
- Six Superior Skirts
(1959)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1960
NDR Jazz Workshops
(TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- No. 12
(1960)
... (writer: "Ain't She Sweet")
1960
Bourbon Street Beat
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- The House of Ledezan
(1960)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1955
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration
(Short documentary) (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1951
The Naughty Twenties
(Documentary short) (music: "Ain't She Sweet?" (uncredited), "Crazy Words - Crazy Tune (Vo-do-de-o)")
1950
Young Man with a Horn
(music: "Lovin' Sam (The Sheik of Alabam)", "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
(TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Episode #3.15
(1949)
... (music: "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited)
1946
The Milky Waif
(Short) (lyrics: "I'm Nobody's Baby" - uncredited) / (music: "I'm Nobody's Baby" - uncredited)
1937
The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
(Documentary short) (music: "Happy Days Are Here Again")
1936
Jimmie Lunceford and His Dance Orchestra
(Short) (writer: "You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes" - uncredited)
1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
(Short) (writer: " (We're Gonna Have) Smooth Sailing" - uncredited)
1930
King of Jazz
(music: "Music Has Charms", "My Bridal Veil", "A Bench in the Park", "Happy Feet", "I Like to Do Things for You", "Has Anybody Seen Our Nellie?", "Song of the Dawn" - uncredited)
1930
They Learned About Women
(music: "Ain't You, Baby?" (1929), "Does My Baby Love?" (1929), "Harlem Madness" (1929), "He's That Kind of a Pal" (1929), "A Man of My Own" (1929), "Ten Sweet Mamas" (1929), "There Will Never Be Another Mary" (1929), "Dougherty Is the Name" (1929), "I'm an Old-Fashioned Guy" (1929) - uncredited)
1930
Chasing Rainbows
(music: "Happy Days Are Here Again", "Everybody Tap", "Lucky Me, Lovable You", "Do I Know What I'm Doing?" - uncredited)
1929
Honky Tonk
(music: "I'm Doing What I'm Doing for Love", "He's a Good Man to Have Around", "I'm Feathering a Nest (For a Little Blue Bird)", "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mammas" - uncredited)
1929
That Party in Person
(Short) (music: "Hungry Women", "Here's That Party Now in Person" - uncredited)
1928
The Jazzmania Quintette
(Short) (music: "Ain't She Sweet", "Is She My Girl Friend? (How de-ow-dow)" - uncredited)
1927
Gus Arnheim and His Ambassador Hotel Orchestra
(Short) (music: "Who-oo? You-oo! That's Who!" - uncredited)
1927
Van and Schenck 'The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland'
(Short) (music: "Hard-to-Get Gertie", "She Knows Her Onions")
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Stage Play: What's in a Name?. Musical revue. Music by Milton Ager. Book by John Murray Anderson. Lyrics by John Murray Anderson. Written in collaboration with Anna Wynne O'Ryan and Jack Yellen. Music orchestrated by Maurice De Packh and Arthur Lange. Musical Director: Augustus Barratt. Choreographed by Michio Ito and Jack Manning. Costume... See more »
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