name	Martin Ritt
birth date	March 02, 1914
birth place	New York City, New York
death date	December 08, 1990
death place	Santa Monica, California }}

Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.

Early Career and influences

Ritt originally attended and played football for Elon College in North Carolina. The stark contrasts of the depression-era South, against his New York City upbringing, instilled in him a passion for expressing the struggles of inequality, which is apparent in the films he directed. After leaving St. John's University, Ritt found work with a theater group, and began acting in plays. His first performance was as ''Crown'' in ''Porgy and Bess''. After his performance drew favorable reviews, Ritt concluded that he could "only be happy in the theater." Ritt then went to work with the Roosevelt administration's New Deal Works Progress Administration as a playwright for the Federal Theater Project, a federal government-funded theater support program.

With work hard to find and the Depression in full effect, many WPA theater performers, directors, and writers became heavily influenced by the radical left and Communism, and Ritt was no exception. Years later, Ritt would state that he had never been a member of the Communist Party, although he considered himself a leftist and found common ground with some Marxist principles.

Ritt moved on from the WPA to the Theater of Arts, then to the Group Theater of New York City. It was at the Group Theater that he met Elia Kazan. Kazan cast Ritt as an understudy to his play Golden Boy. Ritt’s social consciousness and political views continued to mature during his time with the Group Theater, and would influence the social and political viewpoint that Ritt would later express in his films.

During World War II, Ritt served with the U.S. Army Air Forces and appeared as an actor in the Air Forces' Broadway play and film ''Winged Victory''. During the Broadway run of the play, Ritt directed a production of Sidney Kingsley's play ''Yellow Jack'', using actors from ''Winged Victory'' and rehearsing between midnight and 3 a.m. after ''Winged Victory'' performances. The play had a brief Broadway run and was performed again in Los Angeles when the ''Winged Victory'' troupe moved there to make the film version.

Television and the Blacklist

After working as a playwright with the Works Progress Administration, acting on stage, and directing hundreds of plays, Ritt became a successful television director.

In 1952, Ritt was acting, directing, and producing teleplays and television programs when he was caught up by the Red Scare and investigations of communist influence in Hollywood and the movie industry. Although not directly named by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Ritt was mentioned in an anti-communist newsletter called ''Counterattack'', published by American Business Consultants, a group formed by three former FBI agents.

''Counterattack'' alleged that Ritt had helped Communist Party-affiliated locals of the New York-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union stage their annual show. Also cited was a show he had directed for Russian War Relief at Madison Square Garden. His associations with the Group Theater, founded on a Russian model, and the Federal Theater Project (which Congress had stopped funding in 1939 because of what some anti-New Deal congressmen claimed to be a left-wing political tone to some productions), were also known to HUAC. He was finally blacklisted by the television industry when a Syracuse grocer charged him with donating money to Communist China in 1951.

Career in Hollywood

Unable to work in the television industry, Ritt returned to the theater for several years. By 1956, the Red Scare had decreased in intensity, and he turned to film directing. His first film as director was ''Edge of the City'', an important film for Ritt and an opportunity to give voice to his experiences. Based on the story of a union dock worker who faces intimidation by a corrupt boss, the film is a virtual laundry list of themes influencing Ritt over the years: corruption, racism, intimidation of the individual by the group, defense of the individual against government oppression, and most notable, the redeeming quality of mercy and the value of shielding others from evil, including sacrificing one's own reputation, career, and even life if necessary.

Ritt went on to direct 25 more films.

Ritt's 1964 film ''The Outrage'', is an American retelling of the Kurosawa film ''Rashomon'', and stars Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, Howard Da Silva, and William Shatner. Ritt and Newman worked together on four other movies, ''Paris Blues'', ''The Long, Hot Summer'', ''Hud'' and ''Hombre''. In the 1970s, Ritt won acclaim for movies like ''The Great White Hope'' (earning Oscar nominations for James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander), ''Sounder'', ''Conrack'' (from Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel), and ''Norma Rae'' (Oscar for Sally Field as Best Actress).

In 1976, Ritt made one of the first dramatic feature films about the blacklist, ''The Front'', starring Woody Allen. ''The Front'' satirizes the use of ''fronts'', men and women who (either as a personal favor or in exchange for payment) allowed their names to be listed as writers for scripts actually authored by blacklisted writers. The film was based on the experiences of, and written by, one of Ritt's closest friends, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted for eight years beginning in 1950.

Ritt scored another hit with ''Cross Creek'', the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of ''The Yearling''. It was nominated (but didn't win) four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actress Alfre Woodard and Best Supporting Actor Rip Torn.

In 1987, Ritt again utilized extensive flashback and nonlinear storytelling techniques in the film ''Nuts'', based on the stage play of the same name, written by Tom Topor. The film was considered a box office disappointment in relation to its budget, although it did not actually lose money.

Ritt died at age 76 in Santa Monica, California on December 8, 1990.

Selected films

''Edge of the City'' (1957)

''No Down Payment'' (1957)

''The Long Hot Summer'' (1958)

''The Black Orchid'' (1958)

''The Sound and the Fury'' (1959)

''5 Branded Women''

''Paris Blues'' (1961)

''Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man'' (1962)

''Hud'' (1963)

''The Outrage'' (1964)

''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' (1965)

''Hombre'' (1967)

''The Brotherhood'' (1968)

''The Great White Hope'' (1970)

''The Molly Maguires'' (1970)

''Sounder'' (1972)

''Pete 'n' Tillie'' (1972)

''Conrack'' (1974)

''The Front'' (1976)

''Casey's Shadow'' (1978)

''Norma Rae'' (1979)

''Cross Creek'' (1983)

''Murphy's Romance'' (1985)

''Nuts'' (1987)

''Stanley & Iris'' (1990)

External links

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name	Alex North
birth name	Isadore Soifer
birth date	December 04, 1910
birth place	Chester, Pennsylvania
death date	September 08, 1991
death place	Los Angeles, California
spouse	Gladlynne Sherle Treihart (1941–1966)Annemarie Hoellger Anna Sokoloff }}

Alex North (December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score (''A Streetcar Named Desire'') and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood (''Viva Zapata!'').

Born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania, North was an original composer probably even by the classical music standards of the day. However, he managed to integrate his modernism into typical film music leitmotif structure, rich with themes. One of these became the famous song, "Unchained Melody". Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone. North's frequent collaborator as orchestrator was the avant-garde composer Henry Brant. He won the 1968 Golden Globe award for his music to ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1968).

His best-known film scores include ''The Rainmaker'' (1956), ''Spartacus'' (1960), ''The Misfits'' (1961),''The Children's Hour'' (1961) ''Cleopatra'' (1963), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1966), ''The Devil's Brigade'' (1968), and ''Dragonslayer'' (1981).

His commissioned score for ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) is notorious for having been discarded by director Stanley Kubrick. North reused themes from the rejected score for ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'', ''Shanks'' (1974), and ''Dragonslayer'', but the score itself was unheard until composer Jerry Goldsmith rerecorded it for Varèse Sarabande in 1993. In 2007, Intrada Records released North's personal copies of the 1968 recording sessions on CD.

Though North is best known for his work in Hollywood, he spent years in New York writing music for the stage; he composed the score, by turns plaintive and jarring, for the original Broadway production of ''Death of a Salesman''. It was in New York that he met Elia Kazan (director of ''Salesman''), who brought him to Hollywood in the '50s. North was one of several composers who brought the influence of contemporary concert music into film, in part marked by an increased use of dissonance and complex rhythms. But there is also a lyrical quality to much of his work which may be connected to the influence of Aaron Copland, with whom he studied.

His classical works include a ''Rhapsody for Piano, Trumpet obbligato and Orchestra''. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his score for the 1976 television miniseries ''Rich Man, Poor Man''. North is also known for his opening to the CBS television anthology series ''Playhouse 90''.

Awards

The American Film Institute ranked North's score for ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:

''Cleopatra'' (1963)

''The Misfits'' (1961)

''Spartacus'' (1960)

''Viva Zapata!'' (1952)

''Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1966)

External links

Alex North website maintained by his family.

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Name	Henry Mancini
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Enrico Nicola Mancini
Born	April 16, 1924Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died	June 14, 1994Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Composer, conductor
Instrument	Piano
Genre	Film scores
Spouse	Virginia O'Connor (September 13, 1947 – June 14, 1994) (his death) 3 children }}

Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons. Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, "Sons of Italy". After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army. In 1945, he participated in the liberation of a concentration camp in southern Germany.

Career

Newly discharged, Mancini entered the music industry. Entering 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the very newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by 'Everyman'Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini really broadened his composition, counterpoint, harmony group music and orchestration skills during studies opening with two acclaimed "serious" concert hall composers, Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

In 1952, Mancini joined the Universal Pictures music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably ''The Creature from the Black Lagoon'', ''It Came from Outer Space'', ''Tarantula'', ''This Island Earth'', ''The Glenn Miller Story'' (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), ''The Benny Goodman Story'' and Orson Welles' ''Touch of Evil''. During this time, he also wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians titled ''I Won't Let You Out of My Heart''.

Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/arranger in 1958. Soon after, he scored the television series ''Peter Gunn'' for writer/producer Blake Edwards, the genesis of a relationship which lasted over 35 years and produced nearly 30 films. Together with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini was one of the pioneers who introduced jazz music into the late romantic orchestral film and TV scores prevalent at the time.

Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (with the standard "Moon River") and ''Days of Wine and Roses'' (with the title song, "Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as ''Experiment in Terror'', ''The Pink Panther'' (and all of its sequels), ''The Great Race'', ''The Party'', and ''Victor Victoria''. Another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was Stanley Donen (''Charade'', ''Arabesque'', ''Two for the Road''). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks (''Man's Favorite Sport?'', ''Hatari!'' – which included the well-known "Baby Elephant Walk"), Martin Ritt (''The Molly Maguires''), Vittorio de Sica (''Sunflower''), Norman Jewison (''Gaily, Gaily''), Paul Newman (''Sometimes a Great Notion'', ''The Glass Menagerie)'', Stanley Kramer (''Oklahoma Crude''), George Roy Hill (''The Great Waldo Pepper''), Arthur Hiller (''Silver Streak''), Ted Kotcheff (''Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?''), and others. Mancini's score for the Alfred Hitchcock film ''Frenzy'' (1972) was rejected and replaced by Ron Goodwin's work.

Mancini scored many TV movies, including ''The Thorn Birds'' and ''The Shadow Box''. He wrote many television themes, including ''Mr. Lucky'' (starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin), ''NBC Mystery Movie'', ''What's Happening!!'', ''Tic Tac Dough'' (1990 version) and ''Once Is Not Enough''. In the 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes: ''Newhart'', ''Hotel'', ''Remington Steele'', and ''Ripley's Believe It or Not''. Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for ''Late Night with David Letterman''. Mancini composed the theme for ''NBC Nightly News'' used beginning in 1975, and a different theme by him, titled ''Salute to the President'' was used by NBC News for its election coverage (including primaries and conventions) from 1976 to 1992. ''Salute to the President'' was only published in a school-band arrangement, although Mancini performed it frequently with symphony orchestras on his concert tours.

Songs with music by Mancini were staples of the easy-listening genre from the 60s to the 80s. Some of the artists who have recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams, Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Connie Francis, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Trini Lopez, George Maharis, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Vale, Ray Conniff, The Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, Herb Alpert, Eddie Cano, Frank Chacksfield, Warren Covington, Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher, Horst Jankowski, Andre Kostelanetz, Peter Nero, Liberace, Mantovani, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Wayne Newton, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Peggy Lee, Al Martino, Jim Nabors, and Matt Monro. Lawrence Welk held Mancini in very high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' (Mancini, at least once, made a guest appearance on the show).

Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to light classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by The Recording Industry Association of America. He had a 20 year contract with RCA Records, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name artists of easy-listening music. Mancini's earliest recordings in the 1950s and early 1960s were of the jazz idiom; with the success of ''Peter Gunn'', ''Mr. Lucky'', and ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', Mancini shifted to primarily recording his own music in record albums and film soundtracks. (Although relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit ''A Time for Us'' (Love Theme from ''Romeo and Juliet'') and its accompanying album ''A Warm Shade of Ivory'', Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist primarily recording music written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and ''Tonight Show'' bandleader Doc Severinsen.

Mancini's range also extended to orchestral scores (''Lifeforce'', ''The Great Mouse Detective'', ''Sunflower'', ''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'', ''Molly Maguires'', ''The Hawaiians''), and darker themes (''Experiment in Terror'', ''The White Dawn'', ''Wait Until Dark'', ''The Night Visitor'').

Mancini was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. He conducted nearly all of the leading symphonies of the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his favorites was the Minnesota Orchestra, where he debuted the ''Thorn Birds Suite'' in June 1983. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family. He also toured several times with Johnny Mathis and also with Andy Williams, who had each sung many of Mancini's songs; Mathis and Mancini collaborated on the 1986 album ''The Hollywood Musicals''.

Cameos

Mancini had occasional experience with cameo and voice roles.

Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series ''Frasier'', as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?"

Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie ''Gunn'', the movie version of the series ''Peter Gunn'', the score of which was originally composed by Mancini himself.

In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon ''Pink, Plunk, Plink'', the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience.

Death and legacy

Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on June 14, 1994. He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of ''Victor/Victoria'', which he never saw on stage. Mancini was survived by his wife of 43 years, singer Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor, with whom he had three children. They had met while both were members of the Tex Beneke orchestra, just after World War II. In 1948, Ginny was one of the founders of the Society of Singers, a non-profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide. Additionally the Society awards scholarships to students pursuing an education in the vocal arts. One of Mancini's twin daughters, Monica Mancini, is a professional singer; her sister Felice runs The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (MHOF). His son Christopher is a music publisher and promoter in Los Angeles.

In 1996, the Henry Mancini Institute, an academy for young music professionals, was founded by Jack Elliott in Mancini's honor, and was later under the direction of composer-conductor Patrick Williams. By the mid 2000s, however, the institute could not sustain itself and closed its doors on December 30, 2006. However, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation "Henry Mancini Music Scholarship" has been awarded annually since 2001. While still alive, Henry created a scholarship at UCLA and the bulk of his library and works are archived in the highly esteemed music library at UCLA.

In 2005, the Henry Mancini Arts Academy was opened as a division of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. The Center is located in Midland, Pennsylvania, minutes away from Mancini's hometown of Aliquippa. The Henry Mancini Arts Academy is an evening-and-weekend performing arts program for children from pre-K to grade 12, with some classes also available for adults. The program includes dance, voice, musical theater, and instrumental lessons.

The American Film Institute ranked Mancini's score for ''The Pink Panther'' No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961)

''Charade'' (1963)

''Hatari!'' (1962)

''Touch of Evil'' (1958)

''Wait Until Dark'' (1967)

Awards

Mancini was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20. Additionally he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys.

Mancini won a total of four Oscars for his music in the course of his career. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1955 for his original score of ''The Glenn Miller Story'', on which he collaborated with Joseph Gershenson. He lost out to Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers''. In 1962, he was nominated in the Best Music, Original Song category for "Bachelor in Paradise" from the film of the same name, in collaboration with lyricist Mack David. That song did not win. However, Mancini did receive two Oscars that year: one in the same category, for the song "Moon River" (shared with lyricist Johnny Mercer), and one for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. The following year, he and Mercer took another Best Song award for "Days of Wine and Roses", another eponymous theme song. His next eleven nominations went for naught, but he finally garnered one last statuette working with lyricist Leslie Bricusse on the score for ''Victor Victoria'', which won the "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score" award for 1983. All three of the films for which he won were directed by Blake Edwards. His score for ''Victor/Victoria'' was adapted for the 1995 Broadway musical of the same name.

On April 13, 2004, the United States Postal Service honored Mancini with a 37 cent commemorative stamp. The stamp shows Mancini conducting with a list of some of his most famous movies and TV show themes in the background. The stamp is Scott catalog number 3839.

Discography

Hit singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
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1960		21	—	—	—
		90	—	—	—
	11	1	—	44
1962		95	—	—	—
		33	10	—	—
	93	—	—	—
	36	15	—	—
		31	10	—	—
	97	—	—	—
	77	14	—	—
	—	—	—	10
		117	23	—	—
	—	27	—	—
1966		—	6	—	—
		—	17	—	—
	—	4	—	—
		—	21	—	—
	—	36	—	—
		1	1	—	—
	87	15	—	—
	—	39	—	—
		115	17	—	—
	—	26	—	—
		13	2	—	—
	—	14	—	42
		—	38	—	—
	117	—	2	—
1973		—	38	—	—
1974		—	21	—	—
1975		—	45	—	—
		—	40	—	—
	—	38	—	—
1977		45	22	—	—
1980		101	—	—	—
1984		—	—	—	23

Albums

''The Versatile Henry Mancini'', Liberty LRP 3121

''The Mancini Touch'', RCA Victor LSP 2101

''The Blues & the Beat'', RCA Victor LSP-2147

''Mr. Lucky Goes Latin'', RCA Victor LSP-2360

''Our Man in Hollywood'', RCA Victor LSP-2604

''Uniquely Mancini'', RCA Victor LSP-2692

''The Best of Mancini'', RCA Victor LSP-2693

''Mancini Plays Mancini'', RCA Camden CAS-2158

''Everybody's Favorite'', RCA Camden CXS-9034

''Concert Sound of Henry Mancini'', RCA Victor LSP-2897

''Dear Heart and Other Songs'', RCA Victor LSP-2990

''Theme Scene'', RCA Victor LSP-3052

''Debut Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra'', RCA Victor LSP-3106

''The Best of Vol. 3'', RCA Victor LSP-3347

''The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini'', RCA Victor LSP-3356

''A Merry Mancini Christmas'', RCA Victor LSP-3612

''Pure Gold'', RCA Victor LSP-3667

''Mancini Country'', RCA Victor LSP-3668

''Mancini '67'', RCA Victor LSP-3694

''Music of Hawaii'', RCA Victor LSP-3713

''Brass on Ivory'', RCA Victor LSP-3756

''A Warm Shade of Ivory'', RCA Victor LSP-3757

''Big Latin Band'', RCA Victor LSP-4049

''Six Hours Past Sunset'', RCA Victor LSP-4239

''Theme music from Z & Other Film Music'', RCA Victor LSP-4350

''Big Screen-Little Screen'', RCA Victor LSP-4630

''This Is Henry Mancini'', RCA Victor VPS6029

''Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation"'', RCA Victor LSP-4689

''Brass, Ivory & Strings'' (with Doc Severinsen), RCA APL1-0098

''The Theme Scene'', RCA AQLI-3052

''Country Gentleman'', RCA APD1-0270 (Quadraphonic)

''Hangin' Out'', RCA CPL1-0672

''Symphonic Soul'', RCA APD1-1025 (Quadraphonic)

''Mancini's Angels'', RCA CPL1-2290

(with Johnny Mathis), ''The Hollywood Musicals'', Columbia FC 40372

''The Pink Panther Meets Speedy Gonzales'', Koch Schwann CD

''The Legendary Henry Mancini'', BMG Australia 3 CD set

Soundtracks

Many of Mancini's "soundtracks" are actually "Music from ...", which allowed him to arrange the music to be more accessible and to release records without the expense of paying studio orchestra fees.

''The Music from Peter Gunn'', RCA Victor LSP 1956

''More Music from Peter Gunn'', RCA Victor LSP 2040

''Music from Mr. Lucky'', RCA Victor LSP 2198

''Bachelor in Paradise'', Film Score Monthly FSMCD vol. 7 Nr. 18

''Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture'', RCA Victor LSP-2362

''A Change of Seasons''

''Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation'', Intrada special collection vol. 11

''Experiment in Terror'', RCA Victor LSP-2442

''Hatari!'', RCA Victor LSP-2559

''Charade'', RCA Victor LSP-2755

''The Pink Panther'', RCA Victor LSP 2795

''The Great Race'', RCA Victor LSP-3402

''Arabesque'', RCA Victor LSP-3623

''What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'', RCA Victor LSP-3648

''Two for the Road'', RCA Victor LSP-3802

''Gunn'', RCA Victor LSP-3840

''The Party'', RCA Victor LSP-3997

''Me, Natalie'', Columbia OS 3350

''Visions of Eight'', RCA Victor ABL1-0231

''The Great Waldo Pepper'', MCA 2085

''Darling Lili'', RCA LSPX 1000

''Gaily, Gaily'', UAS 5202

''The Glass Menagerie'', MCA MCAD 6222

''The Great Mouse Detective'', Varèse Sarabande VSD 5359

''The Hawaiians'', UAS 5210

''Lifeforce'', BSXCD 8844

''The Molly Maguires'', Bay Cities BCD 3029

''Nightwing''

''Oklahoma Crude'', RCA APL1 0271

''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'', UA-LA 694

''Revenge of the Pink Panther'', EMI 791113-2

''Santa Claus: The Movie'', EMI SJ 17177

''Silver Streak'', Intrada special collection vol. 5

''Sometimes a Great Notion'', Decca DL 79185

''Son of the Pink Panther'', Milan 21-16461-2

''Sunflower'', SLC SLCS 7035

''The Thief Who Came to Dinner'', WB BS 2700

''The Thorn Birds'', Varèse Sarabande 30206 65642 8

''Tom and Jerry – The Movie'', MCA MCD 10721

''Touch of Evil'', Movie Sound MSCD 401

''Victor Victoria'', GNP Crescendo GNPD 8038

''W.C. Fields and Me'', MCA 2092

''Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'', Epic SE 35692

''Without a Clue''

Filmography

''Breakfast at Tiffany's

''Days of Wine and Roses

''The Pink Panther

''Charade Universal Studios

''A Shot in the Dark

''Frenzy (Rejected Score)

''The White Dawn

''The Return of the Pink Panther

''The Pink Panther Strikes Again

''Revenge of the Pink Panther

''Victor Victoria

''Trail of the Pink Panther

''Curse of the Pink Panther

''The Great Mouse Detective'' – Walt Disney Pictures

''Ghost Dad'' – Universal Studios

''Tom and Jerry: The Movie'' – Turner Pictures

''Son of the Pink Panther

''Blind Date (1987 film)

Bibliography

Mancini, Henry: ''Sounds And Scores: a practical guide to professional orchestration'' (Book on orchestration of popular music, 1962)

Mancini, Henry: ''Did they mention the music?'' (Autobiography, with Gene Lees, 1989)

Thomas, Tony: ''Music For The Movies'' (1973)

Thomas, Tony: ''Film Score'' (1979)

Larson, Randall: 'Henry Mancini: On Scoring Lifeforce and Santa Claus' (interview)(in: ''CinemaScore'', #15, 1987)

Büdinger, Matthias: 'An interview with Henry Mancini' (in: ''Soundtrack'', vol. 7, No. 26, 1988)

Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini' (in: ''Soundtrack'', vol. 13, No. 50, 1994)

Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini remembered' (in: ''Soundtrack'', vol. 13, No. 51)

Büdinger, Matthias: 'Whistling Away The Dark' In: ''Film Score Monthly'', # 45, p. 7

Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini 1924–1994' In: ''Film Score Monthly'', # 46/47, p. 5

Büdinger, Matthias: 'Feeling Fancy Free' (in: ''Film Score Monthly'', vol. 10, No. 2)

Brown, Royal S.: Overtones and undertones – reading film music (1994)

References

External links

Henry Mancini, Space Age Pop

A Henry Mancini discography

Joe Reisman scores, 1945–1986 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Henry Mancini, Soundtrackinfo

Official site on Mancini's 80th anniversary

A Mancini anthology

Memories of Henry Mancini

The story behind the making of the music from Peter Gunn, including interviews with the musicians and sound engineers

Henry Mancini interview recorded 5.9.1968 on the Pop Chronicles

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This is a list of people whose names in English are commonly appended with the phrase "''the Great''", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as ''e Bozorg'' and ''e azam'' in Persian and Urdu respectively.

In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to be a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II of Persia.

The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus) assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "''the Great''".

The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC).

Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.

As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of later generations in using the designation greatly varies. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "The Great" in his lifetime but is rarely called such nowadays, while Frederick II of Prussia is still called "The Great". A later Hohenzollern - Wilhelm I - was often called "The Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely later.

Rulers

Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah of Iran

Akbar (1542–1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, mainly India

Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), French aristocrat

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia

Alexander I of Georgia (1386–1446), King of Georgia

Alfonso III of León (c. 848-910), King of León, Galicia and Asturias

Alfred the Great (848/849-899), King of Wessex

Antiochus III the Great (c. 241–187 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire

Ashoka the Great (c. 304–232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty

Ashot I of Iberia “the Great”(died 826/830), presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia),

Askia Mohammad I (c. 1442–1538), ruler of the Songhai Empire

Bhumibol Adulyadej (born 1927), King of Thailand

Bolesław I Chrobry (967-1025), sometimes called "the Great", first King of Poland

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the following section)

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (1736–1809), founder and ruler of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (in what is now Thailand)

Cnut the Great (c. 985 or 995-1035), King of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden

Casimir III the Great (1310–1370), King of Poland

Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia

Chandragupta II (reigned 375-413/415), also known as Vikramaditya, ruler of the Gupta empire in India

Charlemagne (died 814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans

Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam (now Thailand)

Chlothar II (584-629), King of Neustria and King of the Franks

Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1097-1157), Margrave of Meissen

Constantine I (c. 272-337), Roman emperor

Cyaxares the Great (c. 625-585 BC), third king of Media

Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), founder and ruler of the Persian or Achaemenid Empire

Darius the Great (550 – 486 BC), third ruler of the Persian Empire

Devapala (died 850), ruler of the Pala Empire in the Indian subcontinent

Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse

Ferdinand I of León and Castile (c. 1015–1065), King of León and Count of Castile

Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia

Genghis Khan (1162?-1227), founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

Gero (c. 900–965), ruler of Marca Geronis, a very large march in Europe

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632), King of Sweden, founder of the Swedish Empire, and noted military leader

Gwanggaeto the Great, King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea

Hanno the Great, the name of three leaders of Carthage, in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries BC

Henry I, Duke of Burgundy (946–1002)

Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France and King of Navarre

Herod the Great (73/74 BC-4 BC), King of Judea

Hugh the Great (898-956), Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris

Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France

Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1101)

Humphrey I de Bohun (died c. 1123), Anglo-Norman aristocrat

Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Tsar of Russia

John I of Portugal (1358–1433), King of Portugal and the Algarve

John II of Aragon (1398–1479), King of Aragon and, through his wife, King of Navarre

Justinian I (483-565), Byzantine Emperor

Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), first King of Hawai'i

Kanishka (died c. 127), ruler of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and parts of India

Kvirike III of Kakheti (1010–1029), King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia

Kublai Khan (1215–1294), Mongol ruler in the 13th century and Emperor of China; founder of the Yuan Dynasty

Llywelyn the Great (c. 1172–1240), Prince of Gwynedd and de facto ruler of most of Wales

Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), King of Hungary, Croatia and Poland

Mangrai the Great (1238–1317), Lanna, northern Thailand

Emperor Meiji (1852–1912), Emperor of Japan

Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418)

Mithridates II of Parthia (died 88 BC), ruler of the Parthian Empire (in present day Iran)

Mithridates VI of Pontus (134 BC–63 BC), ruler of Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom

Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus

Narai (1633–1688), King of Ayutthaya (in what is now modern Thailand)

Naresuan (1555–1605), King of Ayutthaya

Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)

K'inich Janaab' Pakal (603-683), ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque

Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa (1123–1186), King of Sri Lanka

Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (died 1075), King of Croatia

Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia

Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285), King of Aragon and King of Sicily

Pompey (106 BC-48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, rival of Julius Caesar

Radama I (1793–1828), first king of greater Madagascar

Raja Raja Chola I (c. 947-1014), Indian emperor of the Cholas.

Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014–1044), Tamil King of India

Ramesses II (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC), considered the greatest pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

Ram Khamhaeng (around 1237 to 1247-1298), King of Sukhothai (in present day Thailand)

Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082–1131), also Count of Provence and various other counties

Rhodri the Great (c. 820–878), King of Gwynedd (in present day Wales)

Roman the Great (after 1160-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev

Saladin (c. 1138-1193), Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and victor over the Crusaders

Samudragupta (c. 335–375), ruler of the Gupta empire in the Indian subcontinent

Sancho III of Navarre (c. 992-1035), King of Kingdom of Navarre

Sargon of Akkad (died c. 2215 BC), ruler of the Akkadian Empire

Sejong the Great (1397–1450), Korean king

Shapur II (309-379), king of the Sassanid Empire, Persia

Simeon I of Bulgaria (864/865-927), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire

Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504), Prince of Moldavia (Romania)

Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (c. 1308-1355), King of Serbia and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks

Taksin (1734–1782), King of the Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)

Timur (1336–1405), better known as Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Dynasty

Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1090–1151), Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie

Theodoric the Great (454-526), King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and a viceroy of the Byzantine Empire

Theodosius I (347-395), Roman emperor

Tigranes the Great (140-55 BC), Emperor of Armenia

Tiridates III of Armenia (285-339), King of Armenia

Umar (c. 586 to 590–644), second caliph of the Muslim Empire

Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182), King of Denmark

Valentinian I (364-375), Roman Emperor

Vladimir I of Kiev (c. 958-1015), ruler of Kievan Rus

Vytautas (c. 1350-1430), archduke of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy

William I, Count of Burgundy (1020–1087), Count of Burgandy and Mâcon

William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969-1030), also Count of Poitou

Xerxes I (519-465 BC), King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia)

Yu the Great (c. 2200-2100 BC), legendary ruler in ancient China

Religious figures

Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East

Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia

Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian

Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt

Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader

Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian

Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)

Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint

Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)

Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)

Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit

Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)

Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople

William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites

Other

Beli Mawr, a figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies

Emmy the Great, folk singer

Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III

Prokop the Great, Hussite general in Bohemia

See also

Epithet

List of monarchs by nickname

List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I

James, son of Zebedee, also known as James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus

Ajax (mythology), called Ajax the Greater

Notes

Category:Monarchs Great, List of people known as The Category:Greatest Nationals Category:Epithets

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