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 ...

.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 ''The Strangler of the Tower'' (german: Der Würger vom Tower) is a 1966 West German crime film directed by Hans Mehringer and starring Charles Regnier, Kai Fischer and Hans Reiser.Pitts p.40 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

* 1904 births 1997 deaths People from the canton of St. Gallen Swiss film score composers {{Switzerland-composer-stub