Alfred Newman

ALFRED NEWMAN d1970. American composer, arranger and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times. In a career spanning more than four decades, he composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ; Wuthering Heights / The Hunchback of Notre Dame / The Mark of Zorro / How Green Was My Valley / The Song of Bernadette / Captain from Castile / All About Eve / Love is a Many Splendored Thing / Anastasia /The Diary of Anne Frank / How The West Was Won / The Greatest Story Ever Told and his final score (Airport) all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions. He was amongst the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood. He and two of his fellow composers (Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin) were considered the "three godfathers of film music". He died in Los Angeles aged 69 on February 17th 1970