Walter Scharf

Film and tv composer Walter Scharf was created August 1, 1910, in NEW YORK; his mom, Bessie Zwerling, was being among the most well-known comediennes starring in the brand new York Yiddish Theatre. He produced his professional debut in 1930 within the orchestra from the George Gershwin musical Woman Crazy, and four years later on relocated to Hollywood because the arranger for famed crooner Rudy Valleé. Scharf also tenured as an arranger for Al Jolson and Alice Faye before embracing film function, composing incidental music for some pictures without actually getting credit; in 1942, he gained the to begin ten Academy Award nominations for his rating towards the melodrama Mercy Isle. Within the years to check out, he also notched Oscar nods for 1953’s Hans Christian Andersen, 1968’s Crazy Woman, and 1972’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolates Factory, but by no means took house the reward. In 1973, he and composing partner Don Dark do earn a Golden World for their focus on the film Ben, using the Michael Jackson-sung name theme also learning to be a TOP pop strike. Scharf also done no less than five Elvis Presley musicals. In tv, he made up for series like the Guy From U.N.C.L.E. and Objective: Impossible, earning an Emmy Prize for his initiatives with respect to National Geographic special deals. He officially retired through the middle-’70s, but continuing to create, authoring the symphony The Tree Stands Still for Los Angeles’ Stephen S. Smart Temple in addition to some two hours of music for the eight-part 1979 Television miniseries Blind Ambition. In every, Scharf is approximated to been employed by on some 250-unusual film and Television productions. He passed away at his L.A. house on Feb 24, 2003, at age 92.