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Hugo Friedhofer is a Actor, Director of Photography, Sound and Additional Music American born on 3 may 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Hugo Friedhofer (parfois crédité Hugo W. Friedhofer) est un compositeur américain de musiques de films, né Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer le 3 mai 1901 à San Francisco (Californie), mort le 17 mai 1981 à Los Angeles (Californie).
En 1929, il arrive à Hollywood, où il est durant plusieurs années arrangeur et orchestrateur, voire compositeur mais généralement sans que son travail soit crédité, sur de très nombreux films américains. Au sein de la Warner Bros., il assiste notamment Max Steiner mais surtout, devient l'orchestrateur attitré d'Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Il compose en 1938 une de ses premières musiques de films notoires, pour Les Aventures de Marco Polo. Dans les années 1940, il poursuit ses activités d'arrangeur-orchestrateur, tout en composant. En 1946, il écrit la partition de Les Plus Belles Années de notre vie, pour laquelle il remporte un Oscar de la meilleure musique de film. Par la suite, ses activités de créateur (et de directeur musical) prennent le dessus et il compose pour le cinéma jusqu'en 1972 (et aussi pour la télévision, mais assez peu, dans les années 1960 - séries principalement -).
À noter que sa filmographie comprend plusieurs westerns, dont Vera Cruz (1954) et La Vengeance aux deux visages (1961).
(1970)
(Original Music Composer)
(1946)
(Original Music Composer)
(1941)
(Orchestrator)
(1954)
(Original Music Composer)
(1943)
(Orchestrator)
(1940)
(Orchestrator)
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Birth name Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer
Nationality USA
Birth 3 may 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 17 may 1981 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 3 may 1901 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 17 may 1981 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Hugo Friedhofer (parfois crédité Hugo W. Friedhofer) est un compositeur américain de musiques de films, né Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer le 3 mai 1901 à San Francisco (Californie), mort le 17 mai 1981 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Biography
Son père - un musicien, pratiquant le violoncelle - et sa mère, originaires d'Allemagne, émigrent aux États-Unis. Dans ses jeunes années, il apprend le violoncelle (dont il joue un temps au sein d'un orchestre), ainsi que la composition.En 1929, il arrive à Hollywood, où il est durant plusieurs années arrangeur et orchestrateur, voire compositeur mais généralement sans que son travail soit crédité, sur de très nombreux films américains. Au sein de la Warner Bros., il assiste notamment Max Steiner mais surtout, devient l'orchestrateur attitré d'Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Il compose en 1938 une de ses premières musiques de films notoires, pour Les Aventures de Marco Polo. Dans les années 1940, il poursuit ses activités d'arrangeur-orchestrateur, tout en composant. En 1946, il écrit la partition de Les Plus Belles Années de notre vie, pour laquelle il remporte un Oscar de la meilleure musique de film. Par la suite, ses activités de créateur (et de directeur musical) prennent le dessus et il compose pour le cinéma jusqu'en 1972 (et aussi pour la télévision, mais assez peu, dans les années 1960 - séries principalement -).
À noter que sa filmographie comprend plusieurs westerns, dont Vera Cruz (1954) et La Vengeance aux deux visages (1961).
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(1970)(Original Music Composer)
(1946)(Original Music Composer)
(1941)(Orchestrator)
(1954)(Original Music Composer)
(1943)(Orchestrator)
(1940)(Orchestrator)
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Beauty and the Beast (1962)
, 1h17Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Mark Damon, Eduard Franz, Michael Pate, Merry Anders, Hugo Friedhofer, Walter Burke
Rating47%
Un beau prince est victime d'une malédiction le transformant en une horrible Bête. Une princesse tente de lui venir en aide alors que les ennemis du prince essayent de lui prendre son trône.
Cameraman
Just Imagine (1930)
, 1h49Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mars in film, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Space opera
Actors El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White, Frank Albertson, Hobart Bosworth
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
In 1980, J-21 (John Garrick) sets his aircraft on "hover" mode in New York, lands and converses with the beautiful LN-18 (Maureen O'Sullivan). He describes how the marriage tribunal had refused to consider J-21's marital filing and applications, and LN-18 is going to be forced to marry the conceited and mean MT-3 (Kenneth Thomson). J-21 plans to visit LN-18 that night.
Sound
Geronimo (1990)
, 1h41Directed by Arnold Laven, Edward T. McDougal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Western
Actors Chuck Connors, Adam West, Denver Pyle, Kamala Devi, Patrick Douglas "Pat" Conway, Armando Silvestre
Rating58%
En 1883, le chef apache Geronimo et son groupe de guerriers sont victimes des attaques américaines et mexicaines. En échange d'un territoire et de nourriture, les guerriers se rendent alors à contrecœur. Mais bientôt Geronimo va s'évader de la réserve et déclarer la guerre aux Américains.
Die Sister, Die! (1978)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith, Robert Emhardt
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating48%
Edward (Jack Ging) is tired of the "allowance" granted him by his sister, Amanda (Edith Atwater) and becomes impatient for her death, and his inheritance. To hasten her demise, or at least stop her suicides from being thwarted, Edward hires a discredited ex-nurse, Esther (Antoinette Bower) to watch over her. Esther is less than enthusiastic about killing the old woman, though, and is curious about the secrets held in the house, including a mysterious third sister, Nell.
Private Parts (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Paul Bartel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Comedy horror films
Actors Lucille Benson, John Rollin Lupton, Laurie Main, Stanley Livingston, Paul Bartel
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are strange, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room?
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
, 1h37Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Hurd Hatfield, Stephen McHattie
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Manfred von Richthofen (John Phillip Law) is a German cavalry officer newly assigned to an air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke (Peter Masterson) who quickly becomes an ace. His career is presented on screen intercut with scenes of another pilot across the lines, a Canadian pilot named Roy Brown (Don Stroud) who arrives at a British squadron, where the commanding pilot is a Victoria Cross holder named Lanoe Hawker (Corin Redgrave).
Airport (1970)
, 2h17Directed by Henry Hathaway, George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runway 29 on to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy (Dana Wynter). Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg). Bakersfield's brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin), is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris (Barry Nelson) during TGA's Flight 2 to Rome. Flight 2 is aboard TGA's flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfield's sister, Sarah (Barbara Hale), he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.
The Secret Invasion (1964)
, 1h38Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva, William Campbell
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating58%
In 1943, British Intelligence in Cairo recruits criminal mastermind Roberto Rocca (Raf Vallone), demolitions expert and Irish Republican Army member Terence Scanlon (Mickey Rooney), forger Simon Fell (Edd Byrnes), cold-blooded murderer John Durrell (Henry Silva), and thief and impersonator Jean Saval (William Campbell) for a dangerous mission. The men are offered pardons in exchange for attempting to rescue an Italian general sympathetic to the Allies who is imprisoned in German-occupied Yugoslavia. The group is led by Major Richard Mace (Stewart Granger), who is trying to expiate his feelings of guilt for sending his own brother on a dangerous mission and waiting too long to extricate him. The fishing boat transporting Mace's team is stopped by a patrol boat, but they dispose of the Germans.
Beauty and the Beast (1962)
, 1h17Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Mark Damon, Eduard Franz, Michael Pate, Merry Anders, Hugo Friedhofer, Walter Burke
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating47%
Un beau prince est victime d'une malédiction le transformant en une horrible Bête. Une princesse tente de lui venir en aide alors que les ennemis du prince essayent de lui prendre son trône.
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
, 2h21Directed by Marlon Brando, Bernard McEveety, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Rio (Marlon Brando) (also called "The Kid"), a shameless philanderer, his mentor Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), and a third man named Doc rob a bank of two saddlebags of gold in Sonora, Mexico. The robbery is successful, but Mexican Rurales track them and catch them celebrating in a cantina, killing Doc. Dad and Rio manage to escape, followed by the Rurales.
Homicidal (1961)
, 1h27Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Joan Marshall, Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, James Westerfield, Eugenie Leontovich, Snub Pollard
Roles Conductor
Rating67%
A mysterious woman named Emily (Arless) convinces a stranger to meet her later that day at a local justice of the peace to get married. Inside the chapel, Emily then savagely murders the justice of the peace and flees. She later gloats to a mute, invalid elderly woman named Helga (for whom Emily is a nurse and works for a wealthy family) of her deed.
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
, 2h5Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith, Anna Lee
Roles Music
Rating62%
In 1931, Lon Rambeau sends his daughter Elizabeth Rambeau away from London to Napa Valley, California to visit Lon's father Philippe Rambeau and Phillipe's daughter, Martha Fairon, owners of vast vineyards and a grand estate. Philippe and Martha welcome Elizabeth lavishly, then reveal the real reason for the celebration of her arrival: her betrothal, unknown to Elizabeth, between her and her cousin, Andre Swann. John Rambeau, obviously disliked by matriarch Martha, arrives at the party, flirts with Elizabeth and leads her out into the vineyards, where he mischievously reveals Rambeau family secrets: Philippe uses marriage to tighten the family hold on the valley; Phillipe's daughter, Martha and daughter-in-law, Charlotte (John's mother) had been married off to local landowners in order to increase the vineyard holdings — Phillipe now wants to marry off granddaughter Elizabeth to Andre in order to absorb the Stag's Leap District vineyard holdings in the Napa Valley. (also, Andre had wanted to become a priest, but was not allowed to do so, and had been forced to join the family business).
Woman Obsessed (1959)
, 1h43Directed by Henry Hathaway, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, James Philbrook
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Mary Sharron (Susan Hayward) has lost her husband to a forest fire. To help her run the ranch, she hires Fred Carter (Stephen Boyd), a handy man. A handsome, but taciturn fellow who has known much tragedy, Fred works hard for her. Robbie Sharron (Dennis Holmes), the woman's son, resents him, and when he learns that his mother is planning to marry him to quell ugly rumors in town, the youth is most unhappy. After the wedding, the stepfather treats the boy harshly, not out of cruelty, but because he wants to prepare the boy to survive the tough life ahead. This creates friction and frustration. Sometimes Fred beats both Mary and Robbie. On the day the wife learns she is pregnant, Robbie and Fred get into a violent fight.
The Blue Angel (1959)
, 1h47Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Stella Stevens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Music
Rating61%
Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some of his boys in this den of wickedness, but he is soon drawn into Lola's sensual spell, and in time becomes involved in an obsessive romance with her that costs him his job, his savings and his dignity.
Never So Few (1959)
, 2h4Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
Shot on location in Burma, Thailand and Ceylon, the film follows Captain Tom Reynolds (Sinatra) and his fellow OSS operatives, Captain Grey Travis (Lawford) and Corporal Bill Ringa (McQueen), leading Kachin natives in fighting the Japanese in Burma in World War II despite a lack of support from their commanders.