Walter Baumgartner (1904–1997) was a Swiss
film composer
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
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[Cowie & Elley p.513] He scored over ninety films, working in his later years with the producer-director
Erwin C. Dietrich. His nephew was the cinematographer
Peter Baumgartner. He was married to the German actress
Helen Vita
Helen Vita (7 August 1928 in Hohenschwangau – 16 February 2001 in Berlin) was a Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian. In 1966 Vita recorded ''Freche Chansons aus dem alten Frankreich'', traditional French chansons translated into German. T ...
from 1956 until his death.
Selected filmography
* ''
Palace Hotel'' (1952)
* ''
The Strangler of the Tower
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Like the contemporaneous series of Edgar Wallace adap ...
'' (1966)
* ''
Bed Hostesses'' (1973)
* ''
Frauengefängnis'' (1975)
* ''
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun'' (1977)
* ''
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
''Ilsa, the Wicked Warden'' (originally released as ''Greta: Haus Ohne Männer'', and also known as ''Greta, the Mad Butcher'', ''Ilsa: Absolute Power'', and ''Wanda, the Wicked Warden'') is a 1977 sexploitation film directed by Jesús Franco and ...
'' (1977)
* ''
Women in Cellblock 9'' (1977)
* ''
Sechs Schwedinnen im Pensionat'' (1979)
* ''
High Test Girls'' (1980)
References
Bibliography
* Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.
External links
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1904 births
1997 deaths
People from the canton of St. Gallen
Swiss film score composers
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