Grainer
Grainer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bill Grainer, American songwriter and producer * Franz Grainer (1871–1948), German photographer * Ron Grainer (1922–1981), UK-based Australian composer See also * Grainger (surname) Grainger is a surname of English origin.Grainger Name Meaning and Origin ...

Ron Grainer
Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for ''Doctor Who'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Steptoe and Son'' and '' Tales of the Unexpected''. Biography Early life Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster. For the first eight years of Ron's life the Grainer family lived in Mt Mulligan, a small town built around the extraction of coal from three seams which lay beneath a 400-metre-high sandstone monolith, located 100 km west of Cairns. Apart from the industrial noise and dust, the family sometimes had to contend with the after effects of a high consumption of alcohol by the shift miners. On one such occasion a stray bullet flew through ...
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Franz Grainer
Franz Grainer (born 28 September 1871 in Bad Reichenhall, died 1948 in Munich) was a Bavarian photographer. Career Grainer created numerous portraits of the children of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, especially the firstborn Luitpold and the son Albrecht, who was the only one to reach adulthood. In 1919, he was one of the founding members of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL), the predecessor of the German Academy of Photographs, whose chairmanship he later took over and still held in the power takeover of the National Socialists. In addition to portrait photographs, more and more nude studies emerged in the 1920s. Works by Grainer are held at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Fotomuseum in the Munich Stadtmuseum. Works *''From the wild. Thierstudien from the high Alps in snapshots by Franz Grainer bayer. Hofphotograph'', Berlin 1898 *''The modern female portrait, in: Das Deutsche Lichtbild. Year 1927'', Berlin 1927 Portrait gallery File:Lili ...
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Bill Grainer
Bill Grainer is a Grammy certified American songwriter and record producer. He has written for such artists as Jai McDowall, Linda Eder, and Jennifer Hudson, with whom he co-wrote the song "Stand Up" for her Grammy Award-winning self-titled debut album. Selected songwriting discography Television and film Grainer wrote both the opening and closing title songs (including “Don’t Blink” on which he was also the performing artist) for the cult horror film '' Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane''. His song “Curiosity” (performed by Tatiana Owens) was used as the theme of Lifetime Movie Network in 2011. Awards and nominations Grammy Awards *2009 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album (Jennifer Hudson) (Winner) Anugerah ERA (ERA Awards) (Malaysia) *2007: Best Pop Song (Shayna Zaid - "A Better Life") (Nominee) Current and upcoming projects Grainer is currently working with Australian actor and singer-songwriter Sam Clark, Harry Mondryk (formerly of UK boy band ReConn ...
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Grainger (surname)
Grainger is a surname of English origin.Grainger Name Meaning and Origin
Retrieved on 2007-12-01 It is a variant of the surname '' Granger'' which is an occupational name for a farm bailiff.Granger Name Meaning and Origin
Retrieved on 2007-12-01 The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the