Name Leo Shuken | Role Film music composer | |
Died July 24, 1976, Santa Monica, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Original Musical Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Music director Sullivan's Travels, Experiment in Terror, The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's, Christmas in July Similar People Richard Hageman, Max Steiner, Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Franz Waxman | ||
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Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906, Los Angeles, California - d. July 24, 1976, Santa Monica, California) was an American film music composer, arranger and musical director.
Shuken composed for the music industry from the end of the 1930s until shortly before his death, contributing music to over 100 films (many of which were uncredited). His first, uncredited, score was for Go West, Young Man in 1937. He won an Academy Award for his work on the 1939 film Stagecoach, and was nominated in 1964 for the Academy Award for Original Music Score for The Unsinkable Molly Brown. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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