Hugo Friedhofer
Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer (May 3, 1901 – May 17, 1981) was an American composer and cellist best known for his motion picture scores. Friedhofer was born in San Francisco, California, United States. His father, Paul, was a cellist trained in Dresden, Germany; his mother, Eva König, was born in Germany. Friedhofer began playing cello at the age of 13. After taking lessons in harmony and counterpoint at University of California, Berkeley, he was employed as a cellist for the People's Symphony Orchestra. In 1929, he relocated to Hollywood, where he performed as a musician for Fox Studios productions such as Sunny Side Up (1920) and Grand Canary (1934). Later, he was hired as an orchestrator for Warner Bros. and worked on more than 50 films for the studio. While at Warners he was largely assigned to work with Max Steiner and, because he could speak German, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Steiner, in particular, relied on Friedhofer's skill in turning his sketches into a full orchestral score. In 1937, Friedhofer composed his first full-length film score, The Adventures of Marco Polo. Though he was still employed as an orchestrator through the 1930s and into the 1940s, he gradually received more assignments as a composer. In 1942, he composed the score for the film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas. In 1946, Friedhofer was hired to compose the score for the 1946 William Wyler directed film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which earned him an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 1947 Academy Awards, beating Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, William Walton and Franz Waxman. A new recording of the score, released in 1979 by Entr'acte Recording Society, was favorably received at the time. Friedhofer was also nominated for other films, including The Bishop's Wife, Joan of Arc, Above and Beyond, Between Heaven and Hell, Boy on a Dolphin, An Affair to Remember, and The Young Lions. Friedhofer, who was greatly admired by his colleagues, was also noted for his caustic, self-deprecating wit. When asked by fellow composer David Raksin as to the progress he was making on his score for Joan of Arc, he replied, "I've just started on the barbecue!". In reply to an interview by Page Cook, the film music critic at Films in Review magazine, who inquired about his place in the pantheon of film musicians, Friedhofer said, "I am just a fake giant among real pygmies." A biographical collection of essays, letters and interviews has been edited by Linda Danly. He died at St. Vincent Hospsital from complications of a fall on May 17, 1981. Description above from the Wikipedia page Hugo Friedhofer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Juarez
(Orchestrator)
The Best Years of Our Lives
(Original Music Composer)
Never So Few
(Original Music Composer)
Gilda
(Original Music Composer)
Hondo
(Original Music Composer)
An Affair to Remember
(Original Music Composer)
The Sun Also Rises
(Music)
Vera Cruz
(Original Music Composer)
Ace in the Hole
(Original Music Composer)
The Conspirators
(Original Music Composer)
The Sound of Fury
(Music)
The Harder They Fall
(Original Music Composer)
The Young Lions
(Original Music Composer)
No Man of Her Own
(Original Music Composer)
So Dark the Night
(Original Music Composer)
The Letter
(Orchestrator)
Man in the Attic
(Original Music Composer)
The Secret Invasion
(Original Music Composer)
Homicidal
(Original Music Composer)
Die Sister, Die!
(Original Music Composer)
Edge of Doom
(Original Music Composer)
The Lodger
(Original Music Composer)
Belle of the Yukon
(Original Music Composer)
Broken Arrow
(Music)
The Sea Wolf
(Music Arranger)
The Black Swan
(Original Music Composer)
Body and Soul
(Original Music Composer)
Violent Saturday
(Original Music Composer)
One-Eyed Jacks
(Original Music Composer)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(Orchestrator)
Queen for a Day
(Music)
Peter Ibbetson
(Original Music Composer)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
(Original Music Composer)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
(Original Music Composer)
Boy on a Dolphin
(Original Music Composer)
The Over the Hill Gang
(Original Music Composer)
Woman Obsessed
(Original Music Composer)
Goldie
(Music)
The Blue Angel
(Music)
Topper Takes a Trip
(Music)
Deep in My Heart
(Orchestrator)
Lydia Bailey
(Music)
Geronimo
(Music)
Now, Voyager
(Music Arranger)
Sealed Verdict
(Music)
The Marrying Kind
(Original Music Composer)
Dark Victory
(Orchestrator)
The Swordsman
(Music)
Cry Danger
(Music)
The Great Lie
(Orchestrator)
The Hurricane
(Orchestrator)
The Pied Piper
(Additional Music)
Virginia City
(Orchestrator)
Mildred Pierce
(Music)
Rebecca
(Orchestrator)
Arsenic and Old Lace
(Orchestrator)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(Orchestrator)
Just Imagine
(Original Music Composer)
Private Parts
(Original Music Composer)
Devotion
(Orchestrator)
The Prisoner of Zenda
(Orchestrator)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(Music)
Joan of Arc
(Original Music Composer)
The Woman in the Window
(Music)
They Came to Blow Up America
(Original Music Composer)
China Girl
(Original Music Composer)
The Dawn Patrol
(Orchestrator)
Transatlantic
(Original Music Composer)
Amateur Daddy
(Original Music Composer)
The Spider
(Original Music Composer)
The Yellow Ticket
(Original Music Composer)
After Tomorrow
(Original Music Composer)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
(Original Music Composer)
Sergeant York
(Orchestrator)
Jezebel
(Orchestrator)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
(Original Music Composer)
The First Year
(Music)
Wild Harvest
(Original Music Composer)
Adventures of Casanova
(Original Music Composer)
Casablanca
(Orchestrator)
White Feather
(Original Music Composer)
Two Flags West
(Original Music Composer)
Along Came Jones
(Original Music Composer)
Thunder in the East
(Original Music Composer)
Broadway Bad
(Original Music Composer)
Crime School
(Orchestrator)
The Bishop's Wife
(Original Music Composer)
Brewster's Millions
(Original Music Composer)
The Cowboy and the Lady
(Orchestrator)
How Green Was My Valley
(Orchestrator)
A Song Is Born
(Original Music Composer)
Rose of the Rancho
(Original Music Composer)
Between Heaven and Hell
(Original Music Composer)
Made for Each Other
(Music)
Three Came Home
(Original Music Composer)
Homicidal
(Conductor)
Home in Indiana
(Original Music Composer)
Wing and a Prayer
(Original Music Composer)
Valley of the Giants
(Orchestrator)
A Song Is Born
(Music Director)
Four Wives
(Orchestrator)
Way Down East
(Music)
Enchantment
(Original Music Composer)
You Only Live Once
(Additional Music)
Tovarich
(Orchestrator)
Seven Cities of Gold
(Original Music Composer)
The Constant Nymph
(Orchestrator)
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
(Music)
This Earth Is Mine
(Music)
Soldier of Fortune
(Music)
They Drive by Night
(Orchestrator)
The Corn Is Green
(Music Arranger)
One Rainy Afternoon
(Orchestrator)
The Hard Way
(Orchestrator)
Beauty and the Beast
(Original Music Composer)
Von Richthofen and Brown
(Original Music Composer)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
(Original Music Composer)
The Barbarian and the Geisha
(Original Music Composer)
Skyline
(Music)
Beloved Enemy
(Orchestrator)
Law of the Harem
(Music)
The Adventures of Marco Polo
(Original Music Composer)
The Gang's All Here
(Music)
Lifeboat
(Original Music Composer)
The Old Maid
(Orchestrator)
Dust Be My Destiny
(Orchestrator)
Dangerous Crossing
(Additional Music)
Outlaws
(Original Music Composer)