Albert Glasser (January 25, 1916 – May 4, 1998) was a composer, conductor and arranger of film music, primarily in the realm of

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s during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He scored approximately 200 films during his career, many for

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and director Bert I. Gordon. For the US War Department, Glasser composed for

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's Special Services Unit and for

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radio shows for overseas broadcasts. For television, he composed the score for the early western, ''

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''. For radio, he composed scores for ''

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'', '' Clyde Beatty'', and ''

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''. Glasser joined

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in 1950, and his popular song compositions include "Urubu", "The Cisco Kid", "Someday" and "I Remember Your Love". In addition to his composition work, Glasser was an amateur radio operator (K6RFU).

Selected filmography

* '' In This Corner'' (1948) * '' The Cobra Strikes'' (1948) * '' Last of the Wild Horses'' (1948) * '' Treasure of Monte Cristo'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1951) * '' Geisha Girl'' (1952) * '' Invasion U.S.A.'' (1952) * '' The Neanderthal Man'' (1953) * ''

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'' (1953) * '' Dragon's Gold'' (1954) * '' The Boss'' (1956) * '' Flight to Hong Kong'' (1956) * ''

The Big Caper ''The Big Caper'' is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Stevens and starring Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa and James Gregory. Plot His portion of the loot from a recent heist squandered, minor-league criminal Frank Harper talks ...

'' (1957) * '' Monster from Green Hell'' (1957) * '' Beginning of the End'' (1957) * '' Viking Women and the Sea Serpent'' (1957) * '' The Cyclops'' (1957) * '' Valerie'' (1957) * '' The Hired Gun'' (1957) * ''

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'' (1957) * '' War of the Colossal Beast'' (1958) * ''

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'' (1958) * '' Teenage Cave Man'' (1958) * '' Earth vs. the Spider'' (1958) * '' High School Confidential'' (1958) * ''

Night of the Quarter Moon ''Night of the Quarter Moon'' is a 1959 American drama film directed by Hugo Haas and written by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis. The film stars Julie London, John Drew Barrymore, Anna Kashfi, Dean Jones, Agnes Moorehead and Nat King Cole. The fi ...

'' (1959) * ''

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'' (1960) * ''

Confessions of an Opium Eater ''Confessions of an Opium Eater'' also known as Souls for Sale and Evils of Chinatown is a 1962 American crime film produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith. It is loosely based on the 1821 autobiographical novel ''Confessions of an English Opiu ...

'' (1962) * '' The Cremators'' (1972) * ''

The Naked Monster ''The Naked Monster'' is a 2005 American ultra low-budget science-fiction and horror comedy fan film written by Ted Newsom and directed by Newsom and Wayne Berwick as an homage to and spoof of the "giant monster-on-the-loose" films of the 1950s. ...

'' (2005)

References

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* 1916 births 1998 deaths American film score composers American male film score composers American television composers University of Southern California alumni Musicians from Chicago 20th-century American classical musicians 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians {{US-composer-20thC-stub