C. Bakaleinikoff
Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled “Bakaleynikov” and “Bakaleinikoff”) was a Russian-born composer. Bakaleinikoff was from a large musical family. His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer). He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Following the Russian revolution he migrated to the United States with his brother Mischa. He worked as a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic before beginning his Hollywood career as a freelance composer. At the 1927 premiere of director Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings at Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the audience was treated to a concert of film music classics conducted by him. With the arrival of sound, the Bakaleinikoff brothers became studio maestros. Mischa joined Columbia Pictures, while Constantin became a musical director at Paramount Pictures, followed by MGM. Constantin also worked briefly at Columbia, and later for independent Grand National Pictures. In 1935, Bakaleinikoff participated in making the earliest dance film, Spring Night. He conducted Joseph Achron's score for this first experimental ballet film, which featured the choreography and dancing of David Lichine, who had danced with Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Nana Gollner, the Texas-born ballerina, was his partner. This pioneering film, which emerged from the Diaghilev sphere of influence, was produced by Adolf Zuckor. Bakaleinikoff received his first Academy Award nomination for scoring the James Cagney feature Something to Sing About (1937). Later, he became the senior music director at RKO Radio Pictures, where he spent most of his motion picture career. He earned Academy Award nominations for his work on The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Higher and Higher (1943), and None But the Lonely Heart (1944). For Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, he conducted the original score by composer Roy Webb, one that complements the director's elements of suspense and danger throughout the film. Bakaleinikoff, who was always billed as “C. Bakaleinikoff”, appeared on camera as himself in RKO's backstage musical Ding Dong Williams (filmed 1945, released in April 1946). He remained at RKO until the studio folded in 1956. He donated his time and talent in the late 1950s in mentoring and conducting the Burbank Youth Symphony. Constantin Bakaleinikoff was married to silent film actress Fritzi Ridgeway. He died in 1966 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Law of the Badlands
(Music Director)
Border Treasure
(Music Director)
Stage Door Canteen
(Music Director)
Criminal Court
(Music Director)
Look Who's Laughing
(Music Director)
The Falcon's Brother
(Music Director)
The Velvet Touch
(Music Director)
They Won't Believe Me
(Music Director)
A Likely Story
(Music Director)
The Falcon Strikes Back
(Music Director)
The Falcon in Danger
(Music Director)
The Boy with Green Hair
(Music Director)
Man Alive
(Music Director)
Double Dynamite
(Music Director)
The Clay Pigeon
(Music Director)
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
(Music Director)
Youth Runs Wild
(Music Director)
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
(Music Director)
Having Wonderful Crime
(Music Director)
Trail Guide
(Music Director)
Indian Agent
(Music Director)
Desperate
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Petticoat Larceny
(Music Director)
The Falcon Out West
(Music Director)
The Arizona Ranger
(Music Director)
Rain or Shine
(Music Director)
Saddle Legion
(Music Director)
The Falcon's Adventure
(Music Director)
His Kind of Woman
(Music Director)
Riders of the Range
(Music Director)
The Spiral Staircase
(Music Director)
None But the Lonely Heart
(Music Director)
Rachel and the Stranger
(Music Director)
Badman's Territory
(Music Director)
Underwater!
(Music Director)
The Farmer's Daughter
(Music Director)
Tarzan Triumphs
(Music Director)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
(Music Director)
A Date with the Falcon
(Music Director)
Night Descends on Treasure Island
(Music Score Producer)
Blood on the Moon
(Music Director)
The Big Steal
(Music Director)
Crossfire
(Music Director)
Banjo
(Music Director)
Dynamite Pass
(Music Director)
The Window
(Music Director)
My Pal, Wolf
(Music Director)
Flying Leathernecks
(Music Director)
Susan Slept Here
(Music Director)
Holiday Affair
(Music Director)
Target
(Music Director)
Gun Smugglers
(Music Director)
Rustlers
(Music Director)
Every Girl Should Be Married
(Music Director)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
(Music Director)
Storm Over Wyoming
(Music Director)
Jet Pilot
(Conductor)
Rider from Tucson
(Music Director)
Tender Comrade
(Music Director)
Notorious
(Music Director)
Pistol Harvest
(Music Director)
Out of the Past
(Music Director)
Gangway for Tomorrow
(Music Director)
Best of the Badmen
(Music Director)
Caught
(Conductor)
Rio Grande Patrol
(Music Director)
Let's Talk Turkey
(Original Music Composer)
Heartbeat
(Music Director)
A Night of Adventure
(Music Director)
The Conqueror
(Music Supervisor)
The Falcon's Alibi
(Music Director)
Stagecoach Kid
(Music Director)
This Land Is Mine
(Music Director)
Overland Telegraph
(Music Director)
Mademoiselle Fifi
(Music Director)
Follow Me Quietly
(Music Director)
San Quentin
(Music Director)
Mr. Lucky
(Music Director)
I Walked with a Zombie
(Music Director)
The Forgotten Step
(Music)
The Falcon in Hollywood
(Music Director)
Vendetta
(Music Director)
The Woman on the Beach
(Music Director)
The Bachelor Party
(Conductor)
The Lusty Men
(Music Director)
The Truth About Murder
(Music Director)
Savage Splendor
(Music Director)
Man's Castle
(Music Director)
The Capital City: Washington, D.C.
(Music)
Mourning Becomes Electra
(Music Director)
Vacation in Reno
(Music Director)
The Falcon in Mexico
(Music Director)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
(Music Director)
China Sky
(Music Director)
The Threat
(Music Director)
Roadblock
(Music Director)
The Body Snatcher
(Music Director)
Bride for Sale
(Music Director)
Higher and Higher
(Original Music Composer)
The Big Street
(Music Director)
Armored Car Robbery
(Music Director)
Macao
(Music Director)
Days of Glory
(Music Director)
Strange Bargain
(Music Director)
Experiment Perilous
(Music Director)
Murder, My Sweet
(Music Director)
The Curse of the Cat People
(Music Director)
The Fallen Sparrow
(Music Director)
Roughshod
(Music Director)
Welcome Danger
(Music Arranger)
A Woman's Secret
(Music Director)
More About Nostradamus
(Music)
A Failure at Fifty
(Original Music Composer)
Cat People
(Music Director)
Weekend for Three
(Music Director)
Born to Be Bad
(Music Director)
The Spanish Main
(Music Director)
The Secret Fury
(Music Director)
Mystery in Mexico
(Music Director)
The Miracle of the Bells
(Music Director)
The Falcon in San Francisco
(Music Director)
Bride by Mistake
(Music Director)
Bunco Squad
(Music Director)
On Dangerous Ground
(Music Director)
Easy Living
(Music Director)
The Hitch-Hiker
(Music Director)
From This Day Forward
(Music Director)
East of Java
(Conductor)
George White's Scandals
(Music Director)
Ladies of Leisure
(Music Director)
Bedlam
(Music Director)
My Woman
(Music Director)
Deadline at Dawn
(Music Director)
Beware, My Lovely
(Music Director)
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
(Music Arranger)
The Brighton Strangler
(Music Director)
The Blue Veil
(Music Director)
Haiti: 'Land of Dark Majesty'
(Music)
Modern New Orleans
(Music)
The Seventh Victim
(Music Director)
Glimpses of Florida
(Music)
One Against the World
(Original Music Composer)
Land of Alaska Nellie
(Music)
Sitka and Juneau: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
(Original Music Composer)
Cavalcade of San Francisco
(Music)
Rural Hungary
(Music)
The Falcon Takes Over
(Music Director)
Mighty Joe Young
(Music Director)
The Ghost Ship
(Music Director)
Suva: 'Pride of Fiji'
(Original Music Composer)
Blackbeard, the Pirate
(Music Director)
Never a Dull Moment
(Music Director)
Trail Street
(Music Director)
What a Blonde
(Music Director)
Station West
(Music Director)
Return of the Bad Men
(Music Director)
Adam Had Four Sons
(Music Director)
The Locket
(Music Director)
Bride of Frankenstein
(Conductor)