Leo F. Forbstein

Komponist, Darsteller

16. Oktober 1892 — 12. Februar 1948 (55 Jahre)
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Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.

Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. As a conductor at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action in silent films; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where the organist was future Warner Bros. colleague Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre.

He signed with Warner Bros. as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Squall in 1929. In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director.

In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood. The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter. He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola in 1938.

Forbstein was married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (born 1915), who married assistant director Melvin Dellar. Leo Forbstein was entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.

Filme & Serien auf plex.tv

  • Hier ist John Doe
    Hier ist John Doe1941
  • Der kleine Cäsar
    Der kleine Cäsar1931
  • Günstling einer Königin
    Günstling einer Königin1939
  • The Kennel Murder Case
    The Kennel Murder Case1933
  • Land der Gottlosen
    Land der Gottlosen1940
  • Verfolgt
    Verfolgt1947
  • In die japanische Sonne
    In die japanische Sonne1943
  • Ladies They Talk About
    Ladies They Talk About1933
  • The Case of the Lucky Legs
    The Case of the Lucky Legs1935
  • Underground
    Underground1941
  • Der geborene Verkäufer
    Der geborene Verkäufer1936

Bekannt aus

  • Das Leben des Emile Zola
    Das Leben des Emile Zola1937
  • Der Verrat des Surat Khan
    Der Verrat des Surat Khan1936

Filmografie

1948
Two Guys from Texas · as Original Music Composer
1946
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace · as Original Music Composer
1939
1936
Earthworm Tractors · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv
1934
1933
1933
Somewhere in Sonora · as Composer
1933
The Telegraph Trail · as Composer
1932
Haunted Gold · as Original Music Composer
1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang · as Original Music Composer
1932
1932
The Man Who Played God · as Original Music Composer
1929