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David Snell is a Actor, Auteur, Director of Photography and Sound American born on 10 september 1897

David Snell

David Snell
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 september 1897
Death 27 march 1967 (at 69 years)

David Snell, né le 10 septembre 1897 à Milwaukee (Wisconsin) et mort le 27 mars 1967 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un compositeur américain de musiques de films.

Biography

Durant sa carrière, David Snell écrit des partitions pour environ deux-cents films américains entre 1932 et 1954 (parfois sans être crédité), dont des westerns, principalement au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Femmes (1939), André Hardy va dans le monde (1940), Le Trésor de Tarzan (1941), Grand Central Murder (1942), L'introuvable rentre chez lui (1945), ou encore La Dame du lac (1947).

Best films

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Snell (112 films)

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Actor

The Stuff
The Stuff (1985)
, 1h27
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Ken Foree, Garret Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom
Roles le docteur
Rating59% 2.950092.950092.950092.950092.95009
A couple of railroad workers discover a yogurt-like white substance bubbling out of the ground. It's found to be sweet and addictive. Later, the substance is marketed as "The Stuff," and it's being sold to the general public in pint containers (incorrectly labeled ".474mL") like ice cream. It is marketed as having no calories and as being sweet, creamy, and filling. The Stuff quickly becomes a nationwide craze and drastically hurts the sales of ice cream.

Scriptwriter

Cameraman

Young Ideas, 1h17
Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, Elliott Reid, Richard Carlson, Allyn Joslyn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.807982.807982.807982.807982.80798
Josephine Evans (Mary Astor) and Professor Michael Kingsley (Herbert Marshall) are in a romantic relationship, something not approved of by Evan's two children. They try to disrupt the relationship with salacious incidents taken from their mother's fiction books, presenting them as true things their mother has done, hoping Kingsley would be displeased.

Sound

A Southern Yankee, 1h30
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough, John Ireland
Rating65% 3.292283.292283.292283.292283.29228
In 1865, Aubrey Filmore works as a bell boy at the Palmer Hotel in St. Louis. Aubrey wants to work as a spy for the Union Government, and contacts Colonel Clifford M. Baker at the Union Secret Service, to ask if he can be of service in their elite spy unit. Aubrey has asked before, and the answer from Colonel Baker is still no.
Song of the Thin Man, 1h26
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed, Leon Ames
Roles Music
Rating68% 3.4478953.4478953.4478953.4478953.447895
A charity benefit sponsored by David Thayer is staged aboard the S.S. Fortune, Phil Brant's gambling ship. The entertainment is provided by a jazz band led by Tommy Drake and featuring singer Fran Page and talented but unstable clarinetist Buddy Hollis.
The Mighty McGurk, 1h25
Directed by John Waters, John Waters, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children
Actors Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Edward Arnold, Aline MacMahon, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick
Rating61% 3.0974153.0974153.0974153.0974153.097415
Roy "Slag" McGurk (Beery), the former heavyweight boxing champion, ekes out a living as a bouncer in Mike Glenson's (Edward Arnold) saloon in the rough Bowery district of New York City. Mike has to meet two brewers for an important deal, so he sends Slag to pick up his daughter Caroline (Dorothy Patrick), returning by ship from Europe. Despite his estrangement from Johnny Burden (Cameron Mitchell), his boxing protege who joined the Salvation Army after putting one opponent in a wheelchair, Slag tells the young man. Mike had sent Caroline away to try to break up her relationship with Johnny.
Undercover Maisie, 1h30
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Leon Ames, Clinton Sundberg, Richard "Dick" Simmons, Gloria Holden
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61% 3.097743.097743.097743.097743.09774
Maisie Ravier (Ann Sothern) is moving from Los Angeles to begin a job selling bubble baths in New York. When she is about to go on a train across the country at the station, she bumps into kindly Mrs. Andrew Lorrison (Nella Walker). Mrs. Lorrison offers to drive Maisie to New York, as her husband, in New York already, needs the family car. Maisie accepts. Mrs. Lorrison also tells Maisie that her husband built a secret compartment in the car into which they should place all their valuables just in case they are held up along the way. Maisie places all her jewelry and her wallet into the compartment. After only a short drive, they pull off at a gas stop. Maisie goes inside the diner to pick up some food, and Mrs. Lorrison says she will get some gas in the interim. While Maisie is inside the diner, Mrs. Lorrison, really a grifter, takes off with Maisie's bags, her wallet and her jewelry, leaving Maisie stranded. When Maisie accurately and thoroughly describes Mrs. Lorrison to the police, Lieutenant Paul Scott (Barry Nelson) from the Los Angeles Police Department's bunco squad is very impressed at her observation skills. He believes Maisie would be a great asset to the squad because of her observation skills and the fact that most con artists would not suspect someone like her of being a police officer. Paul convinces his boss, Captain Mead (Charles D. Brown), to place Maisie in police training as he wants to use Maisie as an undercover agent to solve some of their unsolved frauds around the city.
Killer McCoy, 1h44
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully, Sam Levene
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.2926553.2926553.2926553.2926553.292655
Tommy McCoy is a tough New York City boy, close to his dad, Brian, a performer in vaudeville. One night while his dad's doing a song and dance for the audience as part of a boxing event, Tommy accepts a challenge to step into the ring. He knocks out his opponent.
Dark Delusion, 1h30
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Craig, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Bremer, Edward Arnold, Jayne Meadows, Henry Stephenson
Roles Music
Rating60% 3.049133.049133.049133.049133.04913
Dr. Gillespie (Barrymore) asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt (Craig), to go to the small town of Bayhurst to replace a local doctor while he is on assignment to the Occupation effort in post-WWII Europe. There, Coalt is asked to sign mental-health commitment papers on a beautiful young socialite, Cynthia Grace (Bremer). Coalt thinks there is something amiss, and begins his own investigation.
The Thin Man Goes Home, 1h40
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Harry Davenport
Roles Music
Rating72% 3.647073.647073.647073.647073.64707
Nick and Nora visit Nick's parents (Lucile Watson and Harry Davenport) in Nick's hometown, Sycamore Springs, in New England. The residents are convinced that Nick is in town on an investigation, despite Nick's repeated denials. However, when aircraft factory employee Peter Berton (Ralph Brooks) seeks out Nick and is shot dead before he can reveal anything, Nick is on the case.
Lady in the Lake, 1h45
Directed by Robert Montgomery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Christmas films
Actors Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64% 3.246423.246423.246423.246423.24642
Tired of the low pay of his profession, hard-boiled private detective Phillip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) submits a murder story to Kingsby Publications. He is invited to the publishers’ offices to discuss his work but soon realizes it is merely a ploy. On Christmas Eve, publishing executive Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) hires him to locate the wife of her boss, Derace Kingsby (Leon Ames).
Bad Bascomb
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Joseph Crehan, Frances Rafferty
Roles Music
Rating67% 3.390313.390313.390313.390313.39031
"Bad" Bascomb (Beery) is a notorious outlaw wanted by federal marshals after outwitting every group sent to capture him. He and fellow bandit Bart Ramsay (Naish), a cold-blooded killer, have again eluded the marshalls by joining a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. They pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O'Brien. Beery eventually distances himself from the other thief and saves the wagon train from an attack by Indians, before being taken captive by the law at the end of the movie.
The Cockeyed Miracle, 1h21
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Audrey Totter, Cecil Kellaway, Richard Quiney, Gladys Cooper
Rating66% 3.341173.341173.341173.341173.34117
Aging shipbuilder Sam Griggs (Frank Morgan) is near the end of his career due to health problems. With the help of his friend Tom Carter (Cecil Kellaway) he has invested all of his family's money in a shaky real estate venture which he hopes will provide a large return. The rest of his family is happily unaware of the deal, preoccupied with their own future prospects.