Ray Heindorf
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Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.
Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez.
After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments.
He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score.
Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776.
Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category.
Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.
Filme (105)
1776
1972 · Music Supervisor, Conductor
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971 · Original Music Composer
Finian's Rainbow
1968 · Original Music Composer
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1959 · Original Music Composer
The Young Philadelphians
1959 · Music Supervisor
Up Periscope
1959 · Music Supervisor
No Time for Sergeants
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Original Music Composer
Miracle in the Rain
1956 · Music
Serenade
1956 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Sincerely Yours
1955 · Original Music Composer
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955 · Original Music Composer
Young at Heart
1954 · Original Music Composer
A Star Is Born
1954 · Movie Premiere Attendee (uncredited), Music Director
Lucky Me
1954 · Music Director
Three Sailors and a Girl
1953 · Original Music Composer
Calamity Jane
1953 · Music Director
Blowing Wild
1953 · Music Director
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953 · Music Director
I Confess
1953 · Music Director
April in Paris
1952 · Music Director, Music
Where's Charley?
1952 · Music
The Big Trees
1952 · Music Director
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951 · Orchestra Leader at Kahn Benefit (uncredited), Music Director
Come Fill the Cup
1951 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Music Director
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Music Director
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951 · Music Director
Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · Music Director
The Screen Director
1951 · Self (uncredited)
Storm Warning
1951 · Music Director
The West Point Story
1950 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Tea for Two
1950 · Music Director
The Damned Don't Cry
1950 · Music Director
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · Music Director
Young Man with a Horn
1950 · Music
Backfire
1950 · Music Director
It's a Great Feeling
1949 · Ray Heindorf (uncredited), Music, Original Music Composer
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · Music Supervisor
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Orchestrator, Conductor
April Showers
1948 · Original Music Composer
My Wild Irish Rose
1947 · Original Music Composer
Love and Learn
1947 · Music Arranger
The Man I Love
1946 · Music Arranger
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Orchestrator
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Original Music Composer
Wonder Man
1945 · Orchestrator, Conductor
Up in Arms
1944 · Conductor, Music Arranger
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · Orchestrator
The Hard Way
1943 · Music Arranger
Gentleman Jim
1942 · Orchestrator
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 · Original Music Composer
The Male Animal
1942 · Orchestrator
Blues in the Night
1941 · Orchestrator
Affectionately Yours
1941 · Orchestrator
The Great Lie
1941 · Orchestrator
The Sea Wolf
1941 · Music Arranger
The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · Orchestrator
Flight from Destiny
1941 · Music Arranger
Honeymoon for Three
1941 · Orchestrator
Four Mothers
1941 · Orchestrator
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Orchestrator
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · Orchestrator
My Love Came Back
1940 · Music
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Music Arranger
Invisible Stripes
1939 · Orchestrator
Four Wives
1939 · Orchestrator
The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Original Music Composer
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · Orchestrator
Daughters Courageous
1939 · Orchestrator
Boy Meets Girl
1938 · Music
Men Are Such Fools
1938 · Orchestrator
Gold Diggers in Paris
1938 · Original Music Composer
Hollywood Hotel
1938 · Music
Ready, Willing and Able
1937 · Music Arranger
Stage Struck
1936 · Music Arranger
The Singing Kid
1936 · Music Arranger
Colleen
1936 · Music Arranger
Dangerous
1935 · Original Music Composer
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · Music Arranger
Alibi Ike
1935 · Orchestrator
Go Into Your Dance
1935 · Orchestrator
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Music Arranger
Sweet Music
1935 · Music Arranger
Murder in the Clouds
1934 · Original Music Composer
Flirtation Walk
1934 · Music Arranger
A Lost Lady
1934 · Original Music Composer
Desirable
1934 · Original Music Composer
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 · Orchestrator
Fashions of 1934
1934 · Music Arranger
Hi, Nellie!
1934 · Additional Music
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 · Orchestrator
Footlight Parade
1933 · Music Arranger
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · Music Arranger
Picture Snatcher
1933 · Additional Music
Secrets
1933 · Orchestrator
42nd Street
1933 · Music Arranger
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933 · Orchestrator
Central Park
1932 · Music
Three on a Match
1932 · Music Arranger
Big City Blues
1932 · Original Music Composer
Crooner
1932 · Original Music Composer
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Orchestrator
Arrowsmith
1931 · Orchestrator
The Song Writers' Revue
1929 · Himself
