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Years active
  
1920s-1980s

Name
  
Harry Sukman


Role
  
Film composer

Children
  
Susan McCray


Born
  
December 2, 1912 (
1912-12-02
)
Chicago, Illinois

Occupation
  
film and television composer

Died
  
December 2, 1984, Palm Springs, California, United States

Spouse
  
Francesca Paley (m. 1946–1984)

Albums
  
Lecuona, E.: Andalucia / Shostakovich, D.: Polka / Ibert, J.: Le Petit Ane Blanc (Sukman) (1950)

Similar People
  
Susan McCray, George Greeley, Morris Stoloff, David Rose, Franz Liszt

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

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Life and career

Sukman was born in Chicago 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 Academy Awards for Song Without End. He was also nominated for Fanny and The Singing Nun. All 3 were in Best Score.

Sukman died of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday, December 2, 1984.

Awards

  • Nominee Best Score - Academy Awards (The Singing Nun)
  • Nominee Best Score - Academy Awards (Fanny)
  • Winner Best Musical Song Score - Academy Awards (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

  • Salem's Lot (TV Movie) (1979)
  • Someone's Watching Me! (TV Movie) (1978)
  • Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (TV Movie) (1975)
  • Police Story (TV Series) (1975)
  • Planet Earth (TV Movie) (1974)
  • The Family Kovack (TV Movie) (1974)
  • Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) (1973–74)
  • The Cowboys (TV Series) (1974)
  • Genesis II (TV Movie) (1973)
  • Bonanza (TV Series) (1969–72)
  • Mister Kingstreet's War (1971)
  • The High Chaparral (TV Series) (1967–70)
  • Tiger, Tiger (TV Movie) (1969)
  • If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968)
  • The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
  • Cowboy in Africa (TV Series) (1967–68)
  • Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1967)
  • The Naked Runner (1967)
  • Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
  • The Monroes (TV Series) (1966–67)
  • The Singing Nun (1966)
  • Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
  • Dr. Kildare (TV Series) (1961–66)
  • High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again (TV Movie) (1966)
  • The Long Hunt of April Savage (TV Movie) (1966)
  • Guns of Diablo (1965)
  • The Virginian (TV Series) (1963–64)
  • The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series) (1963–64)
  • The Lieutenant (TV Series) (1963)
  • The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) (1962)
  • Madison Avenue (1962)
  • Fanny (1962)
  • A Thunder of Drums (1961)
  • Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
  • Song Without End (1960)
  • Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) (1960)
  • Laramie (TV Series) (1960)
  • The Crimson Kimono (1959)
  • Verboten! (1959)
  • The Hangman (1959)
  • Underwater Warrior (1958)
  • Outcasts of the City (1958)
  • Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957)
  • Forty Guns (1957)
  • Fury at Showdown (1957)
  • Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) (1957)
  • Screaming Eagles (1956)
  • The Phenix City Story (1955)
  • A Bullet for Joey (1955)
  • Battle Taxi (1955)
  • Gog (1954)
  • Riders to the Stars (1954)

    • References

    Harry Sukman Wikipedia
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