Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Born on this day – David Raksin:


David Raksin


Composer

August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004

Credits:

10 (1979); 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); 52nd Street (1937); A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966); A Dirty Shame (2004); A Gentleman at Heart (1942); A Girl with Ideas (1937); A Lady Without Passport (1950); A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958); A Slight Case of Larceny (1953); A Tune for Laura: David Raksin Remembers (2019); A Unicorn in the Garden (1953); Across the Wide Missouri (1951); Adventures in Silverado (1948); Al Capone (1959); Alias the Deacon (1940); All About Alfred (1998); Apache (1954); Apartment for Peggy (1948); Armored Car (1937); As Good as Married (1937); Atom Man vs. Superman (1950); Attack in the Pacific (1944); Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil's 1924 Ballet Mécanique (2003); Bad for Each Other (1953); Barricade (1939); Bathing Beauty (1944); Behind Green Lights (1946); Belle of the Yukon (1944); Ben Casey (1961–1966); Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1994); Big Gold Brick (2022); Bigger Than Life (1956); Biography (1999); Bomber's Moon (1943); Border Wolves (1938); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Breezing Home (1937); Buffalo Bill (1944); Cadet Girl (1941); Camera Three (1976); Captain America: The First Avenger (2011); Carrie (1952); Cavalcade of Books (1957); C'è musica & musica (1972); Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003); Chip of the Flying U (1939); Cinerama Adventure (2002); Circumstantial Evidence (1945); City of Bad Men (1953); City Without Men (1943); Courage of the West (1937); Crash Dive (1943); Daisy Kenyon (1947); Dead Men Tell (1941); Der Klang der Bilder (1995); Diamond Horseshoe (1945); Dipsy Gypsy (1941); Don Juan Quilligan (1945); Dr. Kildare (1964–1965); Dr. Renault's Secret (1942); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956); Fallen Angel (1945); Fast Company (1953); Father of the Bride (1961–1962); Fearless Fagan (1952); Festival (1963); Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017); Five Fingers (1959–1960); Forbidden Valley (1938); Force of Evil (1948); Forever Amber (1947); Forty Little Mothers (1940); Front Row Center (1955); Frontier Marshal (1939); Fury at Furnace Creek (1948); General Electric Theater (1959); Giddyap (1950); Girl Crazy (1943); Glass Houses (1972); Goodbye Broadway (1938); Gorilla at Large (1954); Grand Pianos and Gals (1941); Great Performances (1995); Greenwich Village (1944); Grounds for Marriage (1951); Guadalcanal Diary (1943); Gunmen from Laredo (1959); Gunsight Ridge (1957); Happy Land (1943); Happy Landing (1938); He Hired the Boss (1943); Hellcats of the Navy (1957); Here's Edie (1963); Hilda Crane (1956); Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood in Vienna (2012); Hollywood Legenden (2004); Hollywood's Musical Moods (1972); Home in Indiana (1944); I Cover the War! (1937); I Dood It (1943); Iceland (1942); Idol of the Crowds (1937); I'll Wait for You (1941); In Old California (1942); Inflation (1943); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Jitterbugs (1943); Joan of Ozark (1942); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Jubal (1956); Just Off Broadway (1942); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Kind Lady (1951); Know Your Ally: Britain (1944); Lady for a Night (1942); Lady in the Corner (1989); Last of the Duanes (1941); Laura (1944 / 1968); Let Them Live (1937); Life with Father (1953); Lost in Space (1967); Love Affair (1939); Love Has Many Faces (1965); Love Nest (1951); Mac (1992); Madeline (1952); Main Street Today (1944); Man on Fire (1957); Manila Calling (1942); Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004); Marked Woman (1937); Marry the Girl (1937); Max Anderson, Private Eye (2013); Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2019); Medical Center (1969); Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush (1980); Men of the Timberland (1941); Midnight Court (1937); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Midnight Intruder (1938); Modern Times (1936); Monty and the Movies (2026); Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938); Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992); My Friend Flicka (1943); My Three Sons (1960); NDR Jazz Workshops (1960); Night Key (1937); Night Life (1989); Night Tide (1961); No Reservations (2007); Nothing Sacred (1937); Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957); Oklahoma Frontier (1939); On the Rocks (2020); On the Sunny Side (1942); One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937); Otto Preminger (1999); Outlaw Express (1938); Panic! (1957); Paris After Dark (1943); Pat and Mike (1952); Pay or Die! (1960); Powder River (1953); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Remember the Day (1941); Remington Steele (1985–1987); Reported Missing! (1937); Reprisal! (1956); Return to Warbow (1958); Ride on Vaquero (1941); Right Cross (1950); Rise and Shine (1941); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Rogue's March (1953); San Quentin (1937); Saturday Night (2024); Scorpio Rising (1963); Scouts to the Rescue (1939); Second Fiddle (1939); Separate Tables (1958); Seven Thieves (1960); Seven Wonders of the World (1956); Sh! The Octopus (1937); She's Dangerous (1937); Singapore Sling (1990); Sloppy Jalopy (1952); Smoky (1946); Something to Shout About (1943); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Song of the Islands (1942); Stanley and Livingstone (1939); State Police (1938); Stealing Beauty (1996); Stella Dallas (1937); Suddenly (1954); Suez (1938); Sun Valley Serenade (1941); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Superman (1948); Susannah of the Mounties (1939); Swamp Water (1941); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943); Sylvia (1965); Take It or Leave It (1944); Talking Film (1983); Tampico (1944); Target: The Corruptors (1961); TCM Remembers 2004 (2004); The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Baroness and the Butler (1938); The Big Combo (1955); The Blue Bird (1940); The Canterville Ghost (1944); The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938); The Crooked Arrangement (1982); The Dancer and the Thief (2009); Thé dansant (1980); The Day After (1983); The Detective (1968); The Devil's Party (1938); The Fabulous Oliver Chantry (1953); The Fighting Guerrillas (1943); The Fighting Lady (1944); The Fighting Sullivans (1944); The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978); The Girl in White (1952); The Goldwyn Follies (1938); The Gorilla (1939); The Great Profile (1940); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Green Hornet (1940); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957); The Hard Man (1957); The Hollywood Palace (1966); The Hollywood Soundtrack Story (1995); The Homestretch (1947); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939); The Jury's Secret (1938); The Kid Comes Back (1937); The Lady Fights Back (1937); The Lady in the Morgue (1938); The Last Stand (1938); The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954); The Little Broadcast (1943); The Lodger (1944); The Magnificent Dope (1942); The Magnificent Yankee (1950); The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942); The Man with a Cloak (1951); The Men in Her Life (1941); The Mighty Treve (1937); The Missing Guest (1938); The Moviemakers (1985); The Next Voice You Hear... (1950); The Night Before the Divorce (1942); The Oregon Trail (1939); The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970); The Patsy (1964); The Perfect Snob (1941); The Phantom Stagecoach (1957); The Postman Didn't Ring (1942); The Puppetoon Movie (1987); The Redeemer (1959); The Reformer and the Redhead (1950); The Road Back (1937); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); The Singing Outlaw (1937); The Soldier (1962); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); The Suicide's Wife (1979); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Undying Monster (1942); The Vintage (1957); The Way to the Gold (1957); The Westland Case (1937); The White Squaw (1956); The Witness Vanishes (1939); The Woman in the Window (2021); These Three (1936); They Came to Blow Up America (1943); Three Hearts for Julia (1943); Three Smart Girls (1936); Thru Different Eyes (1942); Till We Meet Again (1944); Time to Kill (1942); Too Late Blues (1961); Trouble at Midnight (1937); Twilight for the Gods (1958); Two Days in a Hot Place (1977); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962); Until They Sail (1957); Wagon Train (1958); West of Carson City (1940); Western Daze (1941); Western Trails (1938); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Where Do We Go from Here? (1945); Whirlpool (1950); Whispering Ghosts (1942); Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942); Why We Fight (1942); Wild West Days (1937); Will Penny (1967); Wings Over Honolulu (1937); Wintertime (1943); Wyoming Renegades (1955); You Bet Your Life (1956); Young Fugitives (1938); Your Choice for the Film Awards (1983); Zappa (2020); Zombies of Mora Tau (1957).

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