Richard Markowitz
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Richard Allen Markowitz born September 3, 1926 in Santa Monica
, California, died December 6, 1994 in Santa Monica, California, USA was an American film and television composer. He was the father of Kate Markowitz
student, Markowitz led a big band
called Dick Allen and the Teenagers under the name Dick Allen. Following his graduation
in 1943 he performed military service in World War II. After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger
and Arnold Schoenberg
. Whilst in Paris he played in jazz clubs and met his wife Haru Yanai.
Markowitz began film composing with the 1958 film Stakeout on Dope Street
for director Irvin Kershner
. He collaborated again with Kernsher on the films The Young Captives, (1959), Hoodlum Priest
(1961), and Face in the Rain (1963). He collaborated with his wife on the score of the film Roadracers (1959) where Haru wrote lyrics to the songs.
In 1961 he composed the score for Bert I. Gordon
's The Magic Sword and began his television career composing the theme song and background music to The Rebel
where the theme song was sung by Johnny Cash
.
He again scored a well known Western TV series when he replaced Dimitri Tiomkin
in conducting the theme and background music to The Wild Wild West
. Keeping with the Western genre He scored the television pilot
and series The Iron Horse
as well as providing music for a variety of American television series and made for TV movies such as Death Car on the Freeway
.
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, California, died December 6, 1994 in Santa Monica, California, USA was an American film and television composer. He was the father of Kate Markowitz
Kate Markowitz
Kate Markowitz is an American singer-songwriter. Markowitz is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers, most notably James Taylor but also Willy DeVille, Shawn Colvin, Mylène Farmer, Don Henley, Billy Joel, k.d. lang, Lyle Lovett, Graham...
Biography
As a Santa Monica High SchoolSanta Monica High School
Santa Monica High School, informally known as SAMOHI, is located in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1884, it is one of the oldest high schools in the state....
student, Markowitz led a big band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
called Dick Allen and the Teenagers under the name Dick Allen. Following his graduation
in 1943 he performed military service in World War II. After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
and Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
. Whilst in Paris he played in jazz clubs and met his wife Haru Yanai.
Markowitz began film composing with the 1958 film Stakeout on Dope Street
Stakeout on Dope Street
Stakeout on Dope Street is a 1958 film by Irvin Kershner. It is about three teenagers who inadvertently get themselves involved in a drug ring. It was the directorial debut of Kershner.-Synopsis:...
for director Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. -Background:...
. He collaborated again with Kernsher on the films The Young Captives, (1959), Hoodlum Priest
Hoodlum Priest (film)
Hoodlum Priest is a 1961 film by Irvin Kershner, based on the life of Father Charles Clark of St. Louis, who ministered to street gangs. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Don Murray - Father Charles Dismas Clark...
(1961), and Face in the Rain (1963). He collaborated with his wife on the score of the film Roadracers (1959) where Haru wrote lyrics to the songs.
In 1961 he composed the score for Bert I. Gordon
Bert I. Gordon
Bert I. Gordon is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants....
's The Magic Sword and began his television career composing the theme song and background music to The Rebel
The Rebel (TV series)
The Rebel is an American Western television series that ran originally on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The program was produced by Goodson-Todman Productions, marking one of their few non-game show ventures...
where the theme song was sung by Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
.
He again scored a well known Western TV series when he replaced Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
in conducting the theme and background music to The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
. Keeping with the Western genre He scored the television pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
and series The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968. It featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun...
as well as providing music for a variety of American television series and made for TV movies such as Death Car on the Freeway
Death Car on the Freeway
Death Car on the Freeway is a 1979 made for television movie starring Shelley Hack. In a plot similar to Steven Spielberg's Duel, this tells the story of an unseen psycho driver who is dubbed the Freeway Fiddler....
.
Television series scored by Markowitz
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Television Series and Television Movies (incomplete)
"Episode(s)" denotes the listing may be incomplete.| Year | Title | Info | On CD? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Trouble, Inc. | (failed pilot) | NO |
| 1961 | Las Vegas Beat | TV movie (failed pilot) | NO |
| 1962 | Ben Casey Ben Casey Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph... |
Episode(s): "Rigadoon for Three Pianos" (Season 2) "Will Everyone Who Believes in Terry Dunne Please Applaud" (season 2) "La Vie, La Vie Interieure" (season 2) "A Cardinal Act of Mercy -- Part 1" (season 2) "A Cardinal Act of Mercy -- Part 2" (season 2) "A Hundred More Pipers" (season 2) "The Echo of a Silent Cheer -- Part 1" (season 3) "The Echo of a Silent Cheer -- Part 2" (season 3) "Light Up the Dark Corners" (season 3) "There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz" (season 3) |
NO |
| 1963 | Breaking Point Breaking Point Breaking Point was an American alternative rock band on the record label Wind-up Records. It was founded in 1999 in Memphis, Tennessee.-Band history:... |
At least two episodes. | NO |
| 1963 | Postmark: Jim Fletcher | Episode(s): "(unknown title)" (failed pilot) And theme music. |
NO |
| 1965 | Branded Branded Branded is a Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30pm Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation... |
Episode(s): "One Way Out" (season 1) |
NO |
| 1967 | Custer Custer (TV series) Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the... |
Episode(s): "Sabers In the Sun" (pilot) |
NO |
| 1967 | Hondo Hondo -Places:*Rio Hondo, the name of several locations*Hondo, Texas, a city in the United States*Hondo, New Mexico*Hondo, Kumamoto, a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan: old name for the main Japanese island of Honshū-Fiction:... |
Episode(s): "Hondo and the Brave" |
NO |
| 1975 | Joe Forrester | Episode(s): "Deadly Weekend: Part 1" "Deadly Weekend: Part 2" And theme music. |
NO |
| 1976 | Most Wanted Most Wanted *Lists used by law enforcement agencies to alert the public, such as:**FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives**FBI Most Wanted Terrorists**United States Secret Service Most Wanted Fugitives**U.S... |
Episode(s): "The Slaver" |
NO |
| 1976 | Hunter | Episode(s): "The Barking Dog" |
NO |
| 1976 | Most Wanted Most Wanted *Lists used by law enforcement agencies to alert the public, such as:**FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives**FBI Most Wanted Terrorists**United States Secret Service Most Wanted Fugitives**U.S... |
Episode(s): "Slaver" |
NO |
| 1976 | The Quest | Episode(s): "The Buffalo Hunters" |
NO |
| 1978 | The Runaways The Runaways The Runaways were an American all-girl rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s. The band released four studio albums and one live set during its run. Among its best known songs: "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Neon Angels On the Road to Ruin", "California Paradise"... |
Episode(s): "No Prince for My Cinderella" "Melinda and the Pinball Wizard" "Lies We Live With" "Too Young to Love" |
NO |
| 1979 | Doctor's Private Lives | Episode(s): "Pilot" (only four episodes made; John Cacavas also on the series) |
NO |
| 1984 | Glitter Glitter Glitter describes an assortment of very small pieces of copolymer plastics, aluminum foil, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, bismuth oxychloride or other materials painted in metallic, neon and iridescent colors to reflect light in a sparkling spectrum... |
At least one episode. | NO |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,... |
Total 72 episodes (from season 1 to 7) | NO |
| 1986 | Blacke's Magic Blacke's Magic Blacke's Magic was a short-lived American TV show about a magician, Alexander Blacke , who, with some help from his con-man father, Leonard , solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances. It ran for one season in 1986 for 13 episodes and featured crimes that tested logic against... |
Episode(s): "Knave of Diamonds, Ace of Hearts" "Vanishing Act" "Prisioner of Paradise" "Forced Landing" |
NO |
| 1986 | Dynasty Dynasty A dynasty is a sequence of rulers considered members of the same family. Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e.g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire... |
All episodes: "The Decision" "The Vigil" Both episodes from season 6 and co-composed (uncredited) with Jack Smalley. |
NO |
| 1987 | The Law and Harry McGraw | Episode(s): "Dead Men Don't Make Phone Calls" "Murder by Landslide" "Yankee Doodle Dandy" "The Fallen Arrow" "She's Not Wild About Harry" "Angela's Secret" (co-scored with Jack Smalley) "Solve It Again Harry" "Gilhooey's Is History" "Waiting Game" Theme music nominated for an Emmy. |
NO |
External links
- In Memoriam Richard Markowitz (1926-1994)http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/daily/article.cfm/articleID/6325/