Charles Gross (born 13 May 1934) is an American film and TV

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, living in New York City. Gross, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was educated at Harvard University (BA), the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...

and Mills College (teaching fellowship), and a student of Darius Milhaud. He arranged for the

West Point Band The West Point Band (also known as the U.S. Military Academy Band or USMA Band) is the U.S. Army's oldest active band and the oldest unit at the United States Military Academy, traces its roots to the American Revolutionary War. At that time, fife ...

for three years, and served in the US Army. Later, he became a writer for industrial films and cartoons. He has written original music for the 1976 Broadway production of ''

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale ''Summer and Smoke'' is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, completed in 1948. He began working on the play in 1945 as ''Chart of Anatomy'', derived from his short stories "Oriflamme" and the then-work-in-progress "Yellow Bir ...

''. His film and television scores included '' Valdez Is Coming'' (1971), '' The Tenth Level'' (1976), '' Blue Sunshine'' (1977), '' The Dain Curse'' (1978), '' Heartland'' (1979), '' My Body, My Child'' (1982), '' Terrible Joe Moran'' (1984), '' Country'' (1984), '' The Burning Bed'' (1984), ''

The Night They Saved Christmas ''The Night They Saved Christmas'' is a 1984 American made-for-television fantasy drama film directed by Jackie Cooper and executive produced by Jack Haley Jr. and Robert Halmi Jr. The film, about an oil company dynamiting in the North Pole in ...

'' (1984), '' Arthur the King'' (1985), '' Sweet Dreams'' (1985), '' Between Two Women'' (1986), '' Punchline'' (1988), '' Turner & Hooch'' (1989), '' Air America'' (1990), '' Another You'' (1991), '' A Family Thing'' (1996), and '' Fakin' Da Funk'' (1997).

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* 1934 births Living people American film score composers American male film score composers American television composers American male television composers 20th-century American composers 21st-century American composers Harvard University alumni Mills College alumni Composers from New York City New England Conservatory alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{US-composer-20thC-stub