Hugo Friedhofer
Komponist
3. Mai 1901 — 17. Mai 1981 (80 Jahre)
Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer (May 3, 1901 – May 17, 1981) was an American composer and cellist best known for his motion picture scores.
Friedhofer was born in San Francisco, California, United States. His father, Paul, was a cellist trained in Dresden, Germany; his mother, Eva König, was born in Germany.
Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13. After taking lessons in harmony and counterpoint at University of California, Berkeley, he was employed as a cellist for the People's Symphony Orchestra.
In 1929, he relocated to Hollywood, where he performed as a musician for Fox Studios productions such as Sunny Side Up (1920) and Grand Canary (1934). Later, he was hired as an orchestrator for Warner Bros. and worked on more than 50 films for the studio. While at Warners he was largely assigned to work with Max Steiner and, because he could speak German, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Steiner, in particular, relied on Friedhofer's skill in turning his sketches into a full orchestral score.
In 1937, Friedhofer composed his first full-length film score, The Adventures of Marco Polo. Though he was still employed as an orchestrator through the 1930s and into the 1940s, he gradually received more assignments as a composer. In 1942, he composed the score for the film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas.
In 1946, Friedhofer was hired to compose the score for the 1946 William Wyler directed film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which earned him an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 1947 Academy Awards, beating Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, William Walton and Franz Waxman. A new recording of the score, released in 1979 by Entr'acte Recording Society, was favorably received at the time.
Friedhofer was also nominated for other films, including The Bishop's Wife, Joan of Arc, Above and Beyond, Between Heaven and Hell, Boy on a Dolphin, An Affair to Remember, and The Young Lions.
Friedhofer, who was greatly admired by his colleagues, was also noted for his caustic, self-deprecating wit. When asked by fellow composer David Raksin as to the progress he was making on his score for Joan of Arc, he replied, "I've just started on the barbecue!". In reply to an interview by Page Cook, the film music critic at Films in Review magazine, who inquired about his place in the pantheon of film musicians, Friedhofer said, "I am just a fake giant among real pygmies."
A biographical collection of essays, letters and interviews has been edited by Linda Danly.
He died at St. Vincent Hospsital from complications of a fall on May 17, 1981.
Description above from the Wikipedia page Hugo Friedhofer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Friedhofer was born in San Francisco, California, United States. His father, Paul, was a cellist trained in Dresden, Germany; his mother, Eva König, was born in Germany.
Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13. After taking lessons in harmony and counterpoint at University of California, Berkeley, he was employed as a cellist for the People's Symphony Orchestra.
In 1929, he relocated to Hollywood, where he performed as a musician for Fox Studios productions such as Sunny Side Up (1920) and Grand Canary (1934). Later, he was hired as an orchestrator for Warner Bros. and worked on more than 50 films for the studio. While at Warners he was largely assigned to work with Max Steiner and, because he could speak German, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Steiner, in particular, relied on Friedhofer's skill in turning his sketches into a full orchestral score.
In 1937, Friedhofer composed his first full-length film score, The Adventures of Marco Polo. Though he was still employed as an orchestrator through the 1930s and into the 1940s, he gradually received more assignments as a composer. In 1942, he composed the score for the film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas.
In 1946, Friedhofer was hired to compose the score for the 1946 William Wyler directed film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which earned him an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 1947 Academy Awards, beating Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, William Walton and Franz Waxman. A new recording of the score, released in 1979 by Entr'acte Recording Society, was favorably received at the time.
Friedhofer was also nominated for other films, including The Bishop's Wife, Joan of Arc, Above and Beyond, Between Heaven and Hell, Boy on a Dolphin, An Affair to Remember, and The Young Lions.
Friedhofer, who was greatly admired by his colleagues, was also noted for his caustic, self-deprecating wit. When asked by fellow composer David Raksin as to the progress he was making on his score for Joan of Arc, he replied, "I've just started on the barbecue!". In reply to an interview by Page Cook, the film music critic at Films in Review magazine, who inquired about his place in the pantheon of film musicians, Friedhofer said, "I am just a fake giant among real pygmies."
A biographical collection of essays, letters and interviews has been edited by Linda Danly.
He died at St. Vincent Hospsital from complications of a fall on May 17, 1981.
Description above from the Wikipedia page Hugo Friedhofer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| 1978 | Die Sister, Die! · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones · as Composer |
| 1972 | Private Parts · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Von Richthofen and Brown · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | The Over-the-Hill Gang · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1969 | My Friend Tony · as Composer |
| 1968 | Lancer · as Composer |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett · as Composer |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. · as Composer |
| 1965 | I Spy · as Composer |
| 1964 | The Secret Invasion · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High · as Composer |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea · as Composer |
| 1963 | Breaking Point · as Composer |
| 1962 | Empire · as Composer |
| 1962 | Beauty and the Beast · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | |
| 1961 | Homicidal · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | One-Eyed Jacks · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1961 | The Americans · as Composer |
| 1960 | Outlaws · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | Never So Few · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Woman Obsessed · as Original Music Composer |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Rawhide · as Composer |
| 1958 | In Love and War · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | I Married a Monster from Outer Space · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | The Barbarian and the Geisha · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | The Bravados · as Composer |
| 1958 | The Young Lions · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | An Affair to Remember · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Boy on a Dolphin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Oh, Men! Oh, Women! · as Composer |
| 1956 | Between Heaven and Hell · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | The Revolt of Mamie Stover · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | The Harder They Fall · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | The Rains of Ranchipur · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | Seven Cities of Gold · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Violent Saturday · as Original Music Composer |
| 1955 | White Feather · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | Vera Cruz · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Man in the Attic · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1953 | Hondo · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky · as Composer |
| 1953 | Plunder of the Sun · as Composer |
| 1952 | Above and Beyond · as Composer |
| 1952 | Thunder in the East · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | Face to Face · as Composer |
| 1952 | Just for You · as Composer |
| 1952 | Big Jim McLain · as Composer |
| 1952 | |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story · as Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1952 | The Outcasts of Poker Flat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1952 | Rancho Notorious · as Composer |
| 1952 | The Marrying Kind · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Journey Into Light · as Composer |
| 1951 | |
| 1951 | Ace in the Hole · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1951 | |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Two Flags West · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Edge of Doom · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Broken Arrow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | No Man of Her Own · as Original Music Composer |
| 1950 | Three Came Home · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1950 | Guilty of Treason · as Composer |
| 1949 | |
| 1949 | Bride of Vengeance · as Composer |
| 1948 | Enchantment · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1948 | Joan of Arc · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1948 | |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1948 | Black Bart · as Composer |
| 1948 | Adventures of Casanova · as Original Music Composer |
| 1948 | |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1947 | Body and Soul · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1947 | Wild Harvest · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1946 | The Jolson Story · as Composer |
| 1946 | So Dark the Night · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | Gilda · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | The Bandit of Sherwood Forest · as Composer |
| 1945 | Getting Gertie's Garter · as Composer |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones · as Original Music Composer |
| 1945 | Brewster's Millions · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1944 | Belle of the Yukon · as Original Music Composer |
| 1944 | |
| 1944 | The Conspirators · as Original Music Composer |
| 1944 | Home in Indiana · as Original Music Composer |
| 1944 | Roger Touhy, Gangster · as Composer |
| 1944 | Four Jills in a Jeep · as Composer |
| 1944 | Lifeboat · as Original Music Composer |
| 1944 | The Lodger · as Original Music Composer |
| 1944 | Wing and a Prayer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1943 | |
| 1943 | My Friend Flicka · as Composer |
| 1943 | Paris After Dark · as Composer |
| 1943 | Wintertime · as Composer |
| 1943 | They Came to Blow Up America · as Original Music Composer |
| 1943 | The Fighting Guerrillas · as Composer |
| 1942 | China Girl · as Original Music Composer |
| 1942 | The Black Swan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1942 | Why We Fightauf plex.tv |
| 1942 | Secret Agent of Japan · as Composer |
| 1941 | Remember the Day · as Composer |
| 1940 | The Mark of Zorro · as Composer |
| 1939 | Made for Each Otherauf plex.tv |
| 1938 | Topper Takes a Tripauf plex.tv |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1936 | White Fang · as Composer |
| 1936 | Sins of Man · as Composer |
| 1936 | The Trail of the Lonesome Pine · as Original Music Composer |
| 1936 | The Prisoner of Shark Island · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv |
| 1936 | Rose of the Rancho · as Original Music Composer |
| 1935 | Peter Ibbetson · as Original Music Composer |
| 1935 | |
| 1935 | Navy Wife · as Composer |
| 1935 | Dante's Inferno · as Composer |
| 1935 | Orchids to You · as Composer |
| 1935 | Curly Top · as Composer |
| 1935 | The Little Colonel · as Composer |
| 1934 | The World Moves On · as Composer |
| 1934 | Grand Canary · as Composer |
| 1934 | Now I'll Tell · as Composer |
| 1934 | George White's Scandals · as Composer |
| 1934 | Coming Out Party · as Composer |
| 1934 | Orient Express · as Composer |
| 1933 | Paddy the Next Best Thing · as Composer |
| 1933 | It's Great to Be Alive · as Composer |
| 1933 | Zoo in Budapest · as Original Music Composer |
| 1933 | Broadway Bad · as Composer |
| 1933 | Face in the Sky · as Composer |
| 1932 | Sherlock Holmes · as Composer |
| 1932 | A Passport to Hell · as Composer |
| 1932 | The Painted Woman · as Composer |
| 1932 | |
| 1932 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · as Composer |
| 1932 | Mystery Ranch · as Composer |
| 1932 | The Trial of Vivienne Ware · as Original Music Composer |
| 1932 | Careless Lady · as Composer |
| 1932 | After Tomorrow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1931 | The Yellow Ticket · as Original Music Composer |
| 1931 | |
| 1931 | The Spider · as Original Music Composer |
| 1931 | Transatlantic · as Original Music Composer |
| 1931 | |
| 1931 | Daddy Long Legs · as Composer |
| 1930 | Just Imagine · as Original Music Composer |
| 1930 | A Devil with Women · as Composer |
| 1929 | Seven Faces · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1954 | Deep in My Heart · as Orchestrator |
| 1946 | The Man I Love · as Orchestrator |
| 1946 | Devotion · as Orchestrator |
| 1945 | Mildred Pierce · as Orchestrator |
| 1945 | The Corn Is Green · as Music Arranger |
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace · as Orchestrator |
| 1943 | The Constant Nymph · as Orchestrator |
| 1943 | The Hard Way · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | Casablanca · as Orchestrator |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager · as Music Arranger |
| 1941 | How Green Was My Valley · as Orchestrator |
| 1941 | Sergeant York · as Orchestrator |
| 1941 | The Great Lie · as Orchestrator |
| 1941 | The Sea Wolf · as Music Arranger |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv |
| 1940 | The Letter · as Orchestrator |
| 1940 | They Drive by Night · as Orchestrator |
| 1940 | Rebecca · as Orchestrator |
| 1940 | Virginia City · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | Four Wives · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv |
| 1939 | Dust Be My Destiny · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | The Old Maid · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | Each Dawn I Die · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | Juarez · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | You Can't Get Away with Murder · as Orchestrator |
| 1939 | Dark Victory · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | The Dawn Patrol · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | The Cowboy and the Lady · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv |
| 1938 | Valley of the Giants · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | Crime School · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood · as Orchestrator |
| 1938 | Jezebel · as Orchestrator |
| 1937 | Tovarich · as Orchestrator |
| 1937 | The Hurricane · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv |
| 1937 | That Certain Woman · as Orchestrator |
| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda · as Orchestrator |
| 1937 | Kid Galahad · as Orchestrator |
| 1936 | Beloved Enemy · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv |
| 1936 | One Rainy Afternoon · as Orchestrator |