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Bronisław Kaper is a Actor and Sound Polonais born on 5 february 1902 at Warsaw (Pologne)

Bronisław Kaper

Bronisław Kaper
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Birth name Bronisław Kaper
Nationality Pologne
Birth 5 february 1902 at Warsaw (Pologne)
Death 26 april 1983 (at 81 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Bronisław Kaper (February 5, 1902 – April 26, 1983) was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper. He was also variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane.

Kaper is now perhaps best remembered as the composer of the jazz standards "On Green Dolphin Street" (lyrics by Ned Washington) and "Invitation" (lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) which were originally the respective title tracks for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's films Green Dolphin Street (1947) and Invitation (1952). He also scored the MGM film musical Lili (1953) and the TV series The F.B.I. (1965–1974).

Biography

Bronisław Kaper began playing the piano at the age of six, and soon demonstrated considerable talent on this instrument. He studied composition and piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, and law at Warsaw University, in deference to his father's wishes. Soon after completing his studies, Kaper went to Berlin - then a city with many theaters and cabarets, where many artists from Eastern Europe - mainly Russia, Poland and Hungary were trying their luck.

In Berlin, in the late 1920s, Kaper met another young composer, the Austrian Walter Jurmann. The two decided to work as a team, first in Berlin and then, after the Nazis took power in Germany, in Paris. The emergence of sound film created a major market for their talents. In Paris, they composed music for films directed by persons who had fled Hitler.

In 1935, upon being offered a seven-year contract with MGM by Louis B. Mayer, Kaper and Jurmann emigrated to the United States, where they continued their work. One of their first American films was the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera (1935), for which they scored the song "Cosi-Cosa". Kaper went on to compose the music for nearly 150 Hollywood movies, and won an Oscar for the musical Lili. His score for the Orson Welles film The Stranger (1946) is an interesting example of how much the soundtrack can contribute to a classic Hollywood film. With Walter Jurmann he co-wrote the theme song for the 1936 film San Francisco, and the theme music and several scores for the Quinn Martin television series The F.B.I.

In 1959, Kaper composed most of the music for MGM's production on Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, after MGM had asked Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to write the score. Only some of Villa-Lobos' music was actually used in the film; much of the rest was later arranged as the secular cantata Forest of the Amazons, which Villa-Lobos recorded in stereophonic sound for United Artists Records with the Symphony of the Air. One of Kaper's last projects under his MGM contract was also his most ambitious: scoring the massive 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, involving epic sea themes and native Polynesian music. Kaper's interest in melding exotic indigenous music with traditional cues continued in Lord Jim, which introduced the unique sound of gamelan orchestras to Western audiences for the first time in the mid-1960s.

In Los Angeles during the 1940s, Kaper was part of a significant community of exiles, including Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Reinhardt, Hanns Eisler, and Berthold and Salka Viertel.

Best films

BUtterfield 8 (1960)
(Original Music Composer)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
(Music)
Lili (1953)
(Music)
Kim (1950)
(Original Music Composer)
San Francisco (1936)
(Sound)
Lord Jim (1965)
(Original Music Composer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bronisław Kaper (114 films)

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Actor

San Francisco, 1h55
Directed by D. W. Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy
Roles Conductor (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5955353.5955353.5955353.5955353.595535
"Blackie" Norton (Clark Gable), a saloonkeeper and gambler in the notorious Barbary Coast, owns the Paradise Club on Pacific Street. He hires a promising, but impoverished, classically trained singer from Benson, Colorado named Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald), who becomes a star attraction at the Paradise. The piano player at the club, dubbed "The Professor" (Al Shean), can tell Mary has a professionally trained voice. Mat (Ted Healy), Blackie's good friend at the Paradise, wisely predicts that Mary is not going to stay on the "Coast".

Sound

The Salzburg Connection, 1h30
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Karen Jensen, Wolfgang Preiss, Helmut Schmid
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53% 2.66282.66282.66282.66282.6628
After a chest is brought up from the bottom of a lake, the diver, Richard Bryant, is found dead. Bill Mathison, an American photographer apparently on vacation in Austria, meets the dead man's widow, Anna, as well as an American woman, Elissa Lang, and together they end up fighting for their lives as well as the possession of long-lost, incriminating documents linking certain individuals to the Nazi Party.
A Flea In Her Ear, 1h34
Directed by Jacques Charon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Rachel Roberts, John Williams, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating55% 2.763442.763442.763442.763442.76344
Gabrielle (Rosemary Harris) is convinced her attorney husband Victor (Rex Harrison) is seeing another woman because of his inattention to her amorous needs. Gabrielle sets up a meeting with her husband at a bordello-hotel, and he is completely unaware that the woman he is going to meet will be his own wife.
The Way West, 2h2
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Jack Elam, Sally Field
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61% 3.0971853.0971853.0971853.0971853.097185
U.S. Senator William Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) is leaving his home in Missouri in 1843, heading west on the Oregon Trail by wagon train. His son and slave come along, with Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) as a hired guide.
Counterpoint, 1h44
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Political films
Actors Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen, Kathryn Hays, Anton Diffring, Ralph Nelson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.1473453.1473453.1473453.1473453.147345
Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls around 1944 in WW2. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by German troops, and when Evans and his musicians try to escape, they are captured by Nazi soldiers led by Col. Arndt (Anton Diffring). Evans and the orchestra are taken to a castle where they are to bide their time before being executed; but it turns out that Arndt's superior, Gen. Schiller (Maximilian Schell), is a big classical music fan. Schiller commands Evans and his symphony to prepare a special concert for the Nazis, but Evans realizes that the moment the concert is over, he and his musicians will be killed.
Tobruk
Tobruk (1967)
, 1h50
Directed by Arthur Hiller, Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Robert Wolders
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63% 3.197663.197663.197663.197663.19766
In September 1942, Rommel's Africa Korps is only 90 miles (144 km) from the Suez Canal, but running dangerously low on fuel. The British approve a plan to destroy German fuel bunkers at Tobruk in an attempt to cripple Rommel's attack.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim (1965)
, 2h34
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66% 3.3486553.3486553.3486553.3486553.348655
Jim (Peter O'Toole) is a promising young English merchant seaman who rises to first officer under Captain Marlow (Jack Hawkins). However, Jim is injured and left at Java. When he is fit again, he signs on with the first available ship, a dilapidated freighter called the S.S. Patna, crammed with hundreds of Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca. When a storm threatens the leaking ship, the crew panics and takes to the lifeboats without a thought for their passengers; Jim in a moment of weakness joins them.
Kisses for My President, 1h53
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach, Arlene Dahl, Edward Andrews, William Walker
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating54% 2.709262.709262.709262.709262.70926
The United States elects its first female President in the form of Leslie McCloud. She and her first gentleman, Thad, move into the White House with their daughter Gloria and son Peter.
Sweet Bird of Youth, 2h
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight, Mildred Dunnock
Rating71% 3.596653.596653.596653.596653.59665
Handsome, young Chance Wayne returns to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, accompanied by a considerably older movie star, Alexandra Del Lago. She is needy and depressed, particularly about a film she has just finished making, and speaks of retiring from the acting world forever.
Mutiny on the Bounty, 2h58
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Psychologie, Transport films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Gordon Jackson, Richard Haydn
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.598113.598113.598113.598113.59811
In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from England for Tahiti under the command of captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard). Her mission is to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, where hopefully it will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves.
Two Loves
Two Loves (1961)
, 1h36
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Nobu McCarthy, Ronald Long, Juano Hernández
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating50% 2.5194552.5194552.5194552.5194552.519455
Dans une petite ville de Nouvelle-Zélande, Anna Vorontosov, une institutrice approchant la trentaine et toujours célibataire, se consacre entièrement à ses élèves au détriment de sa vie affective et sexuelle réduite à néant. Bien qu’attirée par Paul Lathrope, l’un de ses collègues, elle demeure dans son ascétisme tandis que Paul se trouve lui-même en proie à d’autres tourments…
Ada
Ada (1961)
, 1h49
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Political films
Actors Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam, Frank Maxwell
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.294613.294613.294613.294613.29461
Bo Gillis (Dean Martin) is a guitar-playing good old boy from a Southern state who is a candidate for governor there. He ends up elected after his opponent's wife is revealed to have a dark secret, a fact that Bo's campaign mastermind, Sylvester Marin (Wilfrid Hyde-White), makes sure becomes known to all.
The Angel Wore Red, 1h39
Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Arnoldo Foà
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.90232.90232.90232.90232.9023
Young Catholic priest Arturo Carrera (Bogarde) sympathizes with the poor in the Spanish Civil War, but finds that his fellow priests have little concern for the poor, because they support the Nationalist rebels. He then resigns from the priesthood. Hours later, the city is bombarded and he takes shelter with a mysterious beautiful woman named Soledad (Gardner).
BUtterfield 8, 1h49
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.1497553.1497553.1497553.1497553.149755
Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggett's wife Emily's (Dina Merrill) mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he should call.
Home from the Hill, 2h30
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Luana Patten
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating73% 3.6934853.6934853.6934853.6934853.693485
In the beginning, Captain Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum), the wealthiest and most powerful person in his East Texas town, is wounded by a jealous husband. Wade is a notorious womanizer, who lives with his beautiful wife Hannah (Eleanor Parker) who scorns him. She has raised their son Theron (George Hamilton) to be dependent upon her, but as he reaches adulthood Theron seeks his father’s help in becoming a man.