C. Bakaleinikoff
Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled “Bakaleynikov” and “Bakaleinikoff”) was a Russian-born composer. Bakaleinikoff was from a large musical family. His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer). He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Following the Russian revolution he migrated to the United States with his brother Mischa. He worked as a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic before beginning his Hollywood career as a freelance composer. At the 1927 premiere of director Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings at Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the audience was treated to a concert of film music classics conducted by him. With the arrival of sound, the Bakaleinikoff brothers became studio maestros. Mischa joined Columbia Pictures, while Constantin became a musical director at Paramount Pictures, followed by MGM. Constantin also worked briefly at Columbia, and later for independent Grand National Pictures. In 1935, Bakaleinikoff participated in making the earliest dance film, Spring Night. He conducted Joseph Achron's score for this first experimental ballet film, which featured the choreography and dancing of David Lichine, who had danced with Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Nana Gollner, the Texas-born ballerina, was his partner. This pioneering film, which emerged from the Diaghilev sphere of influence, was produced by Adolf Zuckor. Bakaleinikoff received his first Academy Award nomination for scoring the James Cagney feature Something to Sing About (1937). Later, he became the senior music director at RKO Radio Pictures, where he spent most of his motion picture career. He earned Academy Award nominations for his work on The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Higher and Higher (1943), and None But the Lonely Heart (1944). For Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, he conducted the original score by composer Roy Webb, one that complements the director's elements of suspense and danger throughout the film. Bakaleinikoff, who was always billed as “C. Bakaleinikoff”, appeared on camera as himself in RKO's backstage musical Ding Dong Williams (filmed 1945, released in April 1946). He remained at RKO until the studio folded in 1956. He donated his time and talent in the late 1950s in mentoring and conducting the Burbank Youth Symphony. Constantin Bakaleinikoff was married to silent film actress Fritzi Ridgeway. He died in 1966 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Movies (187)
Jet Pilot
1957 · Conductor
The Bachelor Party
1957 · Conductor
Great Day in the Morning
1956 · Music Director
The Conqueror
1956 · Music Supervisor
Underwater!
1955 · Music Director
Susan Slept Here
1954 · Music Director
The French Line
1954 · Music Supervisor
The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · Music Director
Angel Face
1953 · Music Coordinator
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952 · Music Director
The Lusty Men
1952 · Music Director
Beware, My Lovely
1952 · Music Director
Target
1952 · Music Director
Macao
1952 · Music Director
Trail Guide
1952 · Music Director
Double Dynamite
1951 · Music Director
Overland Telegraph
1951 · Music Director
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Music Director
The Blue Veil
1951 · Music Director
The Racket
1951 · Music Director
Roadblock
1951 · Music Director
Pistol Harvest
1951 · Music Director
Flying Leathernecks
1951 · Music Director
His Kind of Woman
1951 · Music Director
Best of the Badmen
1951 · Music Director
Saddle Legion
1951 · Music Director
Law of the Badlands
1951 · Music Director
The Company She Keeps
1951 · Music Director
Vendetta
1950 · Music Director
Where Danger Lives
1950 · Music Director
Rio Grande Patrol
1950 · Music Director
Born to Be Bad
1950 · Music Director
Bunco Squad
1950 · Music Director
Never a Dull Moment
1950 · Music Director
Border Treasure
1950 · Music Director
Armored Car Robbery
1950 · Music Director
Rider from Tucson
1950 · Music Director
Storm Over Wyoming
1950 · Music Director
Dynamite Pass
1950 · Music Director
The Secret Fury
1950 · Music Director
Stromboli
1950 · Orchestrator
Riders of the Range
1950 · Music Director
Holiday Affair
1949 · Music Director
The Threat
1949 · Music Director
Bride for Sale
1949 · Music Director
Strange Bargain
1949 · Music Director
Savage Splendor
1949 · Music Director
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · Conductor
Easy Living
1949 · Music Director
Mighty Joe Young
1949 · Music Director
Follow Me Quietly
1949 · Music Director
The Big Steal
1949 · Music Director
Stagecoach Kid
1949 · Music Director
Roughshod
1949 · Music Director
The Window
1949 · Music Director
The Clay Pigeon
1949 · Music Director
Rustlers
1949 · Music Director
Caught
1949 · Conductor
A Woman's Secret
1949 · Studio Recording Session Conductor (Uncredited), Music Director
Gun Smugglers
1948 · Music Director
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · Music Director
Indian Agent
1948 · Music Director
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Music Director
Blood on the Moon
1948 · Music Director
Rachel and the Stranger
1948 · Music Director
Station West
1948 · Music Director
Mystery in Mexico
1948 · Music Director
Return of the Bad Men
1948 · Music Director
The Velvet Touch
1948 · Music Director
The Arizona Ranger
1948 · Music Director
Berlin Express
1948 · Music Director
The Miracle of the Bells
1948 · Music Director
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · Music Director
I Remember Mama
1948 · Music Director
Out of the Past
1947 · Music Director
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Music Director
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · Music Director
Crossfire
1947 · Music Director
They Won't Believe Me
1947 · Music Director
Riff-Raff
1947 · Music Director
Desperate
1947 · Music Director
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Music Director
Banjo
1947 · Music Director
A Likely Story
1947 · Music Director
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Music Director
Trail Street
1947 · Music Director
The Locket
1946 · Music Director
San Quentin
1946 · Music Director
The Falcon's Adventure
1946 · Music Director
Vacation in Reno
1946 · Music Director
Criminal Court
1946 · Music Director
Nocturne
1946 · Music Director
Notorious
1946 · Music Director
Bedlam
1946 · Music Director
Badman's Territory
1946 · Music Director
Heartbeat
1946 · Music Director
The Falcon's Alibi
1946 · Music Director
The Truth About Murder
1946 · Music Director
Deadline at Dawn
1946 · Music Director
From This Day Forward
1946 · Music Director
The Spiral Staircase
1946 · Music Director
Man Alive
1945 · Music Director
Johnny Angel
1945 · Music Director
George White's Scandals
1945 · Music Director
The Spanish Main
1945 · Music Director
The Falcon in San Francisco
1945 · Music Director
The Body Snatcher
1945 · Music Director
China Sky
1945 · Music Director
The Brighton Strangler
1945 · Music Director
Zombies on Broadway
1945 · Music Director
Having Wonderful Crime
1945 · Music Director
What a Blonde
1945 · Music Director
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Music Director
Murder, My Sweet
1944 · Music Director
The Falcon in Hollywood
1944 · Music Director
None But the Lonely Heart
1944 · Music Director
Music in Manhattan
1944 · Music Director
Tall in the Saddle
1944 · Music Director
My Pal, Wolf
1944 · Music Director
Youth Runs Wild
1944 · Music Director
The Falcon in Mexico
1944 · Music Director
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · Music Director
Bride by Mistake
1944 · Music Director
Days of Glory
1944 · Music Director
A Night of Adventure
1944 · Music Director
Tender Comrade
1944 · Music Director
The Falcon Out West
1944 · Music Director
The Curse of the Cat People
1944 · Music Director
Higher and Higher
1943 · Original Music Composer
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943 · Music Director
The Ghost Ship
1943 · Music Director
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943 · Music Director
Gangway for Tomorrow
1943 · Music Director
The Seventh Victim
1943 · Music Director
The Fallen Sparrow
1943 · Music Director
The Falcon in Danger
1943 · Music Director
Petticoat Larceny
1943 · Music Director
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943 · Music Director
Mr. Lucky
1943 · Music Director
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · Music Director
The Leopard Man
1943 · Music Director
This Land Is Mine
1943 · Music Director
I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · Music Director
Flight for Freedom
1943 · Music Director
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · Music Director
Tarzan Triumphs
1943 · Music Director
Hitler's Children
1943 · Music Director
The Great Gildersleeve
1942 · Music Director
Cat People
1942 · Music Director
The Falcon's Brother
1942 · Music Director
The Big Street
1942 · Music Director
The Falcon Takes Over
1942 · Music Director
Valley of the Sun
1942 · Music Director
A Date with the Falcon
1942 · Music Director
Weekend for Three
1941 · Music Director
Look Who's Laughing
1941 · Music Director
Glimpses of Florida
1941 · Music
Haiti: 'Land of Dark Majesty'
1941 · Music
Melody for Three
1941 · Original Music Composer
Adam Had Four Sons
1941 · Music Director
More About Nostradamus
1941 · Music
Cavalcade of San Francisco
1940 · Music
The Capital City: Washington, D.C.
1940 · Music
A Failure at Fifty
1940 · Original Music Composer
Suva: 'Pride of Fiji'
1940 · Original Music Composer
Modern New Orleans
1940 · Music
Sitka and Juneau: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
1940 · Original Music Composer
Night Descends on Treasure Island
1940 · Music Score Producer
Land of Alaska Nellie
1939 · Music
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
1939 · Music Arranger
Let's Talk Turkey
1939 · Original Music Composer
Fast and Furious
1939 · Orchestra Leader (uncredited), Original Music Composer
One Against the World
1939 · Original Music Composer
Rural Hungary
1939 · Music
The Forgotten Step
1938 · Music
Swing It Professor
1937 · Music Director
Flash Gordon
1936 · Conductor
East of Java
1935 · Conductor
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Conductor
Man's Castle
1933 · Music Director
My Woman
1933 · Music Director
Ten Cents a Dance
1931 · Music Director
Rain or Shine
1930 · Music Director
Ladies of Leisure
1930 · Music Director
Welcome Danger
1929 · Music Arranger
Father and Son
1929 · Original Music Composer
The Younger Generation
1929 · Conductor
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