Harry Sukman (December 2, 1912 – December 2, 1984) was an American film and television composer.

Life and career

Sukman was born in

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in 1912. He started his musical career in the 1920s, when he was a teenager. He composed music scores for movies like '' Salem's Lot''. He married Francesca Paley in 1946, and the two stayed married until his death. They had one child, Susan McCray. He won an Oscar and was nominated for two Oscars. He won the best musical song score Oscar at the

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Jan ...

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

(shared with

Morris Stoloff Morris W. Stoloff (August 1, 1898 – April 16, 1980) was a musical composer. Stoloff worked with Sammy Davis Jr., Dinah Shore, Al Jolson and Frank Sinatra. Life and career Stoloff worked as music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. ...

) for ''

Song Without End ''Song Without End'', subtitled ''The Story of Franz Liszt'', is a 1960 biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the film and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produ ...

''. He was also nominated for '' Fanny'' and ''

The Singing Nun Jeanne-Paule Marie "Jeannine" Deckers (17 October 1933 – 29 March 1985), better known as Sœur Sourire () and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and a member of the Dominican Order in ...

''. All 3 were in Best Score. Sukman died of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday, December 2, 1984.

Awards

*Nominee Best Score -

(The Singing Nun) *Nominee Best Score -

(Fanny) *Winner Best Musical Song Score -

(Song Without End) *Nominee Best Score - Emmy Awards (The High Chaparral) *Nominee Best Score for Limited Series or Special - Emmy Awards (Salem's Lot)

Filmography

*'' Gog'' (1954) *''

Riders to the Stars ''Riders to the Stars'' is a 1954 independently made American science fiction film produced by Ivan Tors Productions and released by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Carlson (who also stars) and Herbert L. Strock (uncredited) a ...

'' (1954) *''

Battle Taxi ''Battle Taxi'' is a 1955 American aviation drama film directed by Herbert L. Strock and written by Malvin Wald. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, Leo Needham and Jay Barney. The film was released on January 26, 19 ...

'' (1955) *'' A Bullet for Joey'' (1955) *''

The Phenix City Story ''The Phenix City Story'' is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson for Allied Artists, written by Daniel Mainwaring and Crane Wilbur and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. It had an unusual "triple ...

'' (1955) *'' Screaming Eagles'' (1956) *''

Forty Guns ''Forty Guns'' is a 1957 American Western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry. Plot In ...

'' (1957) *''

Fury at Showdown ''Fury at Showdown'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Gerd Oswald.A. H. Weiler.Screen: 'Boy on a Dolphin' at Roxy; Scenery and Signorina Loren Are Eye-Filling Mild Adventure Is Set Against Greek Isles 'Fury at Showdown' Makeshift Safa ...

'' (1957) *'' Tales of Wells Fargo'' (TV Series) (1957) *'' Sabu and the Magic Ring'' (1957) *'' Outcasts of the City'' (1958) *'' Underwater Warrior'' (1958) *'' The Hangman'' (1959) *''

Verboten! ''Verboten!'' is a 1959 American romantic war drama film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and starring James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, and Harold Daye. It was the last film of the influential but troubled RKO Radio Pict ...

'' (1959) *'' The Crimson Kimono'' (1959) *''Dog Face'' (TV Movie) (1959) *''

Death Valley Days ''Death Valley Days'' is an American old-time radio and television anthology series featuring true accounts of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley country of southeastern California. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program ...

'' (TV Series) (1960) *''

'' (1960) *''

Alcoa Theatre ''Alcoa Theatre'' is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on Monday nights from September 30, 1957 to May 23, 1960. The program also aired under the title ''Turn of Fate''. ''Alcoa Theatre'' was syndicated together ...

'' (TV Series) (1960) *'' Laramie'' (TV Series) (1960) *''

Underworld U.S.A. ''Underworld U.S.A.'' (also known as ''Underworld USA'') is a 1961 American neo-noir crime film produced, written, and directed by Samuel Fuller. It tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who goes to enormous lengths to get revenge against the mob ...

'' (1961) *'' Madison Avenue'' (1961) *''

A Thunder of Drums ''A Thunder of Drums'' is a 1961 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Joseph Newman and starring Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten and Arthur O'Connell. The screenwriter James Warner Bellah adapted it from his 1946 short ...

'' (1961) *''

Dr. Kildare Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictur ...

'' (TV Series) (1961–66) *'' Cain's Hundred'' (TV Series) (1962) *''Belle Sommers'' (TV Movie) (1962) *'' The Eleventh Hour'' (TV Series) (1962) *'' Fanny'' (1962) *''

The Lieutenant ''The Lieutenant'' is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most ...

'' (TV Series) (1963) *'' The Virginian'' (TV Series) (1963–64) *''

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ''The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters'' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimi ...

'' (TV Series) (1963–64) *'' Guns of Diablo'' (1965) *''

'' (1966) *'' Around the World Under the Sea'' (1966) *''The Long Hunt of April Savage'' (TV Movie) (1966) *''High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again'' (TV Movie) (1966) *'' The Monroes'' (TV Series) (1966–67) *''

Daniel Boone Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the we ...

'' (TV Series) (1967) *''

The Naked Runner ''The Naked Runner'' is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan and Edward Fox. It was the last film Sinatra made with Warner Bros., and is largely viewed as being a disastrous end ...

'' (1967) *'' Welcome to Hard Times'' (1967) *''

Cowboy in Africa ''Cowboy in Africa'' is an ABC television series produced in 1967–1968 by Ivan Tors and starring Chuck Connors. A 1966 television pilot turned into a movie and released to cinemas starring Hugh O'Brian as Jim Sinclair was called '' Africa Tex ...

'' (TV Series) (1967–68) *''

The High Chaparral ''The High Chaparral'' television series, which was broadcast on NBC from 1967 to 1971, is an American Western action adventure drama set in the 1870s. It stars Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell. The series was made by Xanadu Productions ...

'' (TV Series) (1967–70) *'' If He Hollers, Let Him Go!'' (1968) *'' The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell'' (1968) *''Tiger, Tiger'' (TV movie) (1969) *'' Bonanza'' (TV Series) (1969–72) *''Mister Kingstreet's War'' (1971) *'' Genesis II'' (TV Movie) (1973) *'' Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law'' (TV Series) (1973–74) *''

The Cowboys ''The Cowboys'' is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name ...

'' (TV Series) (1974) *''The Family Kovack'' (TV Movie) (1974) *''

Planet Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surface ...

'' (TV Movie) (1974) *''Beyond the Bermuda Triangle'' (TV Movie) (1975) *'' Police Story'' (TV Series) (1975) *''Jeremiah of Jacob's Neck'' (TV Movie) (1976) *''Enigma'' (TV Movie) (1977) *''

Someone's Watching Me! ''Someone's Watching Me!'' is a 1978 American made-for-television horror film written and directed by John Carpenter and starring Lauren Hutton, David Birney and Adrienne Barbeau. The film was made immediately prior to Carpenter's theatrical ...

'' (TV Movie) (1978) *'' Salem's Lot'' (TV Movie) (1979)

References

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* 1912 births 1984 deaths 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians American film score composers American television composers Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners American male film score composers Male television composers Monument Records artists {{US-composer-20thC-stub