Walter Baumgartner (16 November 1904 – 3 October 1997) was a Swiss

film composer A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

. He scored over ninety films, working in his later years with the producer-director Erwin C. Dietrich. His nephew was the cinematographer Peter Baumgartner. He was married to the German actress

Helen Vita Helen Vita (7 August 1928 in Hohenschwangau – 16 February 2001 in Berlin) was a Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian. In 1966 Vita recorded ''Freche Chansons aus dem alten Frankreich'', traditional French chansons translated into German. T ...

from 1956 until his death.

Selected filmography

* '' Palace Hotel'' (1952) * '' The Venus of Tivoli'' (1953) * '' The Strangler of the Tower'' (1966) * '' Bed Hostesses'' (1973) * ''

Frauengefängnis ''Frauengefängnis'' (lit. Women's prison; released in the US as ''Barbed Wire Dolls'' and in the UK as ''Caged Women'') is a 1975 Swiss-West German horror film directed by Jesús Franco. It is part of the women in prison cycle of violent sexploi ...

'' (1975) * '' Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun'' (1977) * '' Ilsa, the Wicked Warden'' (1977) * '' Women in Cellblock 9'' (1977) * '' Sechs Schwedinnen im Pensionat'' (1979) * '' High Test Girls'' (1980)

References

Bibliography

* Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. p. 513

External links

* 1904 births 1997 deaths People from the canton of St. Gallen Swiss film score composers {{Switzerland-composer-stub