Harry Sukman
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Born | Chicago, Illinois |
December 2, 1912
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Occupation | film and television composer |
Years active | 1920s-1980s |
Harry Sukman (December 2, 1912 – December 2, 1984) was an American film and television composer.
Life and career
Sukman was born in Chicago in 1912. He started his musical career in the 1920s, when he was a teenager. He composed music scores for movies like Salem's Lot.
He married Francesca Paley in 1946, and the two stayed married until his death. They had one child, Susan McCray.
He won an Oscar and was nominated for two Oscars.[1] He won the best musical song score Oscar at the 1960 Academy Awards for Song Without End. He was also nominated for Fanny and The Singing Nun. All 3 were in Best Score.
Sukman died of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday, December 2, 1984.
Awards
- Nominee Best Score - Academy Awards (The Singing Nun)
- Nominee Best Score - Academy Awards (Fanny)
- Winner Best Musical Song Score - Academy Awards (Song Without End)
- Nominee Best Score - Emmy Awards (The High Chaparral)
- Nominee Best Score for Limited Series or Special - Emmy Awards (Salem's Lot)
Filmography
- Salem's Lot (TV Movie) (1979)
- Someone's Watching Me! (TV Movie) (1978)
- Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (TV Movie) (1975)
- Police Story (TV Series) (1975)
- Planet Earth (TV Movie) (1974)
- The Family Kovack (TV Movie) (1974)
- Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) (1973–74)
- The Cowboys (TV Series) (1974)
- Genesis II (TV Movie) (1973)
- Bonanza (TV Series) (1969–72)
- Mister Kingstreet's War (1971)
- The High Chaparral (TV Series) (1967–70)
- Tiger, Tiger (TV Movie) (1969)
- If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968)
- The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
- Cowboy in Africa (TV Series) (1967–68)
- Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1967)
- The Naked Runner (1967)
- Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
- The Monroes (TV Series) (1966–67)
- The Singing Nun (1966)
- Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
- Dr. Kildare (TV Series) (1961–66)
- High Noon: The Clock Strikes Noon Again (TV Movie) (1966)
- The Long Hunt of April Savage (TV Movie) (1966)
- Guns of Diablo (1965)
- The Virginian (TV Series) (1963–64)
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series) (1963–64)
- The Lieutenant (TV Series) (1963)
- The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) (1962)
- Madison Avenue (1962)
- Fanny (1962)
- A Thunder of Drums (1961)
- Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
- Song Without End (1960)
- Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) (1960)
- Laramie (TV Series) (1960)
- The Crimson Kimono (1959)
- Verboten! (1959)
- The Hangman (1959)
- Underwater Warrior (1958)
- Outcasts of the City (1958)
- Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957)
- Forty Guns (1957)
- Fury at Showdown (1957)
- Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) (1957)
- Screaming Eagles (1956)
- The Phenix City Story (1955)
- A Bullet for Joey (1955)
- Battle Taxi (1955)
- Gog (1954)
- Riders to the Stars (1954)
Notes
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