Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906,
Los Angeles
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,
California
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- d. July 24, 1976,
Santa Monica, California
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) was an American
film music
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composer,
arranger, and
musical director.
Shuken composed for the
music industry from the end of the 1930s until shortly before his death, contributing music to over 100 films (many of which were uncredited). His first, uncredited, score was for ''
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'' in 1937. He won an
Academy Award
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for his work on the 1939 film ''
Stagecoach'', and was nominated in 1964 for the
Academy Award for Best Original Score for ''
The Unsinkable Molly Brown''. He is interred at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
Glendale, California.
Further reading
*
Jürgen Wölfer & Roland Löper: "''Das grosse Lexikon der Filmkomponisten. Die Magier der cineastischen Akustik - von Ennio Morricone bis Hans Zimmer''". Schwarzkopf&Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, .
References
External links
Biography*
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1906 births
1976 deaths
Musicians from Los Angeles
American film score composers
American male film score composers
Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians