Paul Misraki
Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim. For his work, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Born Paul Misrachi in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) into a French Jewish family of Italian descent, Misraki showed an early aptitude for music. He went to Paris to study classical composition, and by the 1930s had become an established jazz pianist, arranger, and writer of popular songs; around this time he began composing film scores, with his first known work being for Jean Renoir's first sound film, On purge bébé (Baby's Laxative, 1931), for which he was not credited. Like Renoir, Misraki fled France during the World War II German occupation. After a brief stay in Argentina, Misraki ended up in Hollywood, where he composed the music to all of Renoir's American films. After the war, Misraki returned to France, working busily throughout the 1950s, a period when he was routinely scoring half a dozen or more films a year. These included numerous films by Yves Allégret and Jean Boyer, as well as two films by Jacques Becker, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs, 1954) and Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955). The 1960s saw Misraki slow down slightly, writing only 2–3 scores a year. During this period, he worked with many of the leading French directors of the period, including Jean-Luc Godard on Alphaville (1965), Jean-Pierre Melville on Le Doulos (1963) and Claude Chabrol, for whom he scored several films. Misraki composed intermittently throughout the last two decades of his life. He composed his last score at age 85; by this point he had been working almost exclusively in television for several years. He died of natural causes at age 90 in Paris. Misraki first found acclaim as a composer and lyricist of popular songs. His first hit was 1935's "Tout va très bien madame la marquise," and during his careers in France, America and Argentina he wrote successful songs in French, English and Spanish. In 1998, at the age of 90 years, Misraki collaborates with Singer Raquel Bitton on her American tribute to his songs in a CD entitled In a Jazzy mood. ... Source: Article "Paul Misraki" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Cousins
(Original Music Composer)
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
(Original Music Composer)
Alphaville
(Original Music Composer)
...And God Created Woman
(Original Music Composer)
The Good Girls
(Original Music Composer)
Obsession
(Original Music Composer)
Clash of Steel
(Compositor)
Oasis
(Original Music Composer)
No Pity for Women
(Original Music Composer)
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
(Original Music Composer)
Plucking the Daisy
(Original Music Composer)
À double tour
(Original Music Composer)
Other Side of Paradise
(Music)
Manon
(Original Music Composer)
L'assassin connaît la musique
(Original Music Composer)
The Fighting Musketeers
(Music)
A Murder Is a Murder
(Original Music Composer)
Utopia
(Original Music Composer)
Crazy for Love
(Original Music Composer)
Love and the Frenchwoman
(Original Music Composer)
Closed Shutters
(Music)
Heartbeat
(Original Music Composer)
The Arrest
(Music)
Return at Dawn
(Original Music Composer)
Beating Heart
(Original Music Composer)
Le Doulos
(Original Music Composer)
Desperate Decision
(Music)
Death in the Garden
(Original Music Composer)
Mademoiselle Has Fun
(Music)
All Roads Lead to Rome
(Music)
Thunderstorm
(Original Music Composer)
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
(Original Music Composer)
Passport to Rio
(Songs)
Monte Carlo Baby
(Original Music Composer)
The Irony of Money
(Original Music Composer)
I Was an Adventuress
(Original Music Composer)
Jack and Jenny
(Original Music Composer)
Eclipse de sol
(Original Music Composer)
El fin de la noche
(Original Music Composer)
Navidad de los pobres
(Original Music Composer)
Siete mujeres
(Music)
Women Are Weak
(Original Music Composer)
The Gamblers
(Original Music Composer)
Claudine at School
(Original Music Composer)
Ladies' Man
(Original Music Composer)
Baby's Laxative
(Original Music Composer)
Les Fanatiques
(Original Music Composer)
Fortune carrée
(Original Music Composer)
Dangerous Games
(Music)
Way of Youth
(Music)
Sénéchal the Magnificent
(Original Music Composer)
La importancia de ser ladrón
(Music)
The Little Rebels
(Original Music Composer)
Mr. Arkadin
(Original Music Composer)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(Original Music Composer)
Stress
(Music)
Young Love
(Original Music Composer)
Attack of the Robots
(Music)
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
(Music)
We Will Go to Deauville
(Music)
Fever Mounts at El Pao
(Original Music Composer)
The Proud and the Beautiful
(Original Music Composer)
Young Girls Beware
(Musical)
She and Me
(Compositor)
Les Dents longues
(Compositor)
Bloody Murder
(Original Music Composer)
Maigret Sets a Trap
(Music)
The Moment of Truth
(Original Music Composer)
The Lovers of Montparnasse
(Original Music Composer)
The Best Part
(Music)
Beautiful Star
(Music)
The Lebanese Mission
(Original Music Composer)
Stella
(Music)
Sans famille
(Music)
Fernandel the Dressmaker
(Music)