Arthur Morton
Arthur Morton was an American music composer and orchestrator for film and television productions. Arthur Morton, aka Arthur Goldberg, was born on 8th August 1908 in Duluth at the southern end of Lake Superior, 150 miles from Minneapolis. He was educated at West High School , 2808 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis. The school closed in 1982.
He continued his education at the University of Minnesota, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, where he also played in jazz bands. He graduated in 1929 and after a year studying law and undertaking further graduate work in philosophy he moved to Los Angeles. Surprisingly, there is no mention of him receiving an advanced musical education. In 1935 he married Emmy Lou Hellman, the daughter of screenwriter Sam Hellman and the sister of Verna Fields, the Academy Award winning film editor of “Jaws”.
His 65-year career in Hollywood began in the music departments of the Hal Roach Studios - of Laurel and Hardy fame - and at Columbia Pictures, composing and orchestrating uncredited stock music. His first credited film score was for Night Life of the Gods (1935). While at Columbia he began collaborating with George Duning, aka George Dunning, composing additional music for films such as the 1949 film Lust for Gold and eventually becoming Duning’s orchestrator. During the period, he composed and orchestrated music for over fifty films including: From Here To Eternity (1953), The Man From Laramie (1955), Kismet (1955), and the cult film Oceans Eleven (1960) staring The Rat Pack.
In 1955, he orchestrated perhaps the most famous of George Duning’s scores for the film Picnic, which included the hit song Theme from Picnic, which in the film, was blended with the 1930’s standard Moonglow. The score was nominated in 1956 for an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
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Films (111)
L.A. Confidential
1997 · Orchestrator
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Orchestrator
Chain Reaction
1996 · Orchestrator
The River Wild
1994 · Orchestrator
The Shadow
1994 · Orchestrator
The Russia House
1990 · Orchestrator
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · Orchestrator
Total Recall
1990 · Orchestrator
Leviathan
1989 · Orchestrator
Extreme Prejudice
1987 · Orchestrator
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986 · Orchestrator
Link
1986 · Orchestrator
Explorers
1985 · Orchestrator
Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985 · Orchestrator
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
1985 · Orchestrator
Gremlins
1984 · Orchestrator
First Blood
1982 · Orchestrator
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Orchestrator
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981 · Orchestrator
Superman
1978 · Orchestrator
The Boys from Brazil
1978 · Orchestrator
Damnation Alley
1977 · Orchestrator
MacArthur
1977 · Orchestrator
Islands in the Stream
1977 · Orchestrator
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Orchestrator
The Omen
1976 · Orchestrator
Chinatown
1974 · Orchestrator
Papillon
1973 · Orchestrator
The Other
1972 · Orchestrator
The Mephisto Waltz
1971 · Orchestrator
Rio Lobo
1970 · Orchestrator
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Orchestrator, Music Arranger
Patton
1970 · Orchestrator
Justine
1969 · Orchestrator
In Like Flint
1967 · Original Music Composer
Morituri
1965 · Orchestrator
Von Ryan's Express
1965 · Orchestrator
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965 · Orchestrator
Dear Brigitte
1965 · Orchestrator
Rio Conchos
1964 · Orchestrator
What a Way to Go!
1964 · Orchestrator
Paris When It Sizzles
1964 · Orchestrator
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963 · Orchestrator
Move Over, Darling
1963 · Orchestrator
Critic's Choice
1963 · Orchestrator
Who's Got the Action?
1962 · Orchestrator
13 West Street
1962 · Orchestrator
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Orchestrator
Two Rode Together
1961 · Orchestrator
Swingin' Along
1961 · Original Music Composer
Cry for Happy
1961 · Orchestrator
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960 · Orchestrator
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 · Orchestrator
Ocean's Eleven
1960 · Orchestrator
The Last Angry Man
1959 · Orchestrator
Gidget
1959 · Original Music Composer
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Orchestrator
The High Cost of Loving
1958 · Orchestrator
No Down Payment
1957 · Orchestrator
Pal Joey
1957 · Orchestrator
The Tijuana Story
1957 · Music
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Orchestrator
Jeanne Eagels
1957 · Orchestrator
The Shadow on the Window
1957 · Orchestrator
Nightfall
1956 · Orchestrator
Miami Exposé
1956 · Music
He Laughed Last
1956 · Original Music Composer
Inside Detroit
1955 · Music
The Last Frontier
1955 · Orchestrator
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955 · Original Music Composer
Picnic
1955 · Orchestrator
Queen Bee
1955 · Orchestrator
Kismet
1955 · Music Arranger
The Man from Laramie
1955 · Orchestrator
Chicago Syndicate
1955 · Original Music Composer
Tight Spot
1955 · Orchestrator
Phffft
1954 · Orchestrator
Pushover
1954 · Original Music Composer
It Should Happen to You
1954 · Orchestrator
The Big Heat
1953 · Original Music Composer
Gun Fury
1953 · Original Music Composer
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Orchestrator
Let's Do It Again
1953 · Orchestrator
The Juggler
1953 · Orchestrator
Affair in Trinidad
1952 · Orchestrator
The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · Orchestrator
The Harlem Globetrotters
1951 · Original Music Composer
Harriet Craig
1950 · Orchestrator
No Sad Songs for Me
1950 · Orchestrator
Father Is a Bachelor
1950 · Original Music Composer
The Nevadan
1950 · Original Music Composer
The Walking Hills
1949 · Original Music Composer
Shockproof
1949 · Orchestrator
Millie's Daughter
1947 · Music
Johnny O'Clock
1947 · Orchestrator
Home Sweet Homicide
1946 · Orchestrator
Gilda
1946 · Orchestrator
Fallen Angel
1945 · Orchestrator
Laura
1944 · Orchestrator
Strange Affair
1944 · Original Music Composer
The Lady and the Monster
1944 · Orchestrator
Quiet Please, Murder
1943 · Orchestrator
London Blackout Murders
1943 · Orchestrator
Inflation
1942 · Orchestrator
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939 · Music Director
Merrily We Live
1938 · Orchestrator
Night Key
1937 · Music
Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · Original Music Composer
She Gets Her Man
1935 · Original Music Composer
Princess O'Hara
1935 · Original Music Composer
Night Life of the Gods
1935 · Original Music Composer
