Mort Shuman - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Mort Shuman's musical talents have contributed to a variety of Hollywood productions. Shuman worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Hound Dog Man" with Stuart Whitman (1959), "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" (1974) and "Les Guichets du Louvre" (1974). He also contributed to "Romance of a Horse Thief" (1971), "Rue Haute" (197...

Filmography

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L' Hotel de la plage (1986)

Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la Barbichette (1979)

La Nuit de Saint-Germain des Pres (1977)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1977)

Plus ca va, moins ca va (1977)

Plus ca va, moins ca va (1977)

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Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It’s Trad, Dad!) (1962) Gary U.S. Bonds, Seven Day Weekend

Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!) -- (Movie Clip) Del Shannon

Biography

Mort Shuman's musical talents have contributed to a variety of Hollywood productions. Shuman worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Hound Dog Man" with Stuart Whitman (1959), "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" (1974) and "Les Guichets du Louvre" (1974). He also contributed to "Romance of a Horse Thief" (1971), "Rue Haute" (1975) and "Une Femme Fidele" with Sylvia Kristel (1976). In the seventies and the eighties, Shuman's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like the romance "Yotzim Kavua" (1979) with Jonathan Segal, "Tous Vedettes" (1980) and the comedy "Psy" (1981) with Patrick Dewaere. His work was also in "American Pop" (1981) starring Ron Thompson. Shuman's music was also featured in "Shall We Dance?" (1997) with Kôji Yakusho, the crime thriller "The Big Lebowski" (1998) with Jeff Bridges and "The Odd Couple II" (1998). His music was also featured in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998) and "Mad Cows" (1999) with Anna Friel. Shuman's music was most recently used in the action film "Let's Be Cops" (2014) with Jake M. Johnson.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

L' Hotel de la plage (1986)

Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la Barbichette (1979)

La Nuit de Saint-Germain des Pres (1977)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1977)

Plus ca va, moins ca va (1977)

Plus ca va, moins ca va (1977)

Un Type comme moi ne devrait jamais mourir (1976)

Rue Haute (1975)

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1974)

Music (Feature Film)

Hustlers (2019)

Show Dogs (2018)

Now You See Me: The Second Act (2016)

Let's Be Cops (2014)

Killshot (2009)

The Express (2008)

Crazy Love (2007)

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights--Hollywood to the Heartland (2006)

No Regrets (2004)

Song ("Little Sister")

Une Vraie jeune fille (2000)

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Song ("Viva Rock Vegas")

Mad Cows (1999)

Song ("Bring Him Back")

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Neil Simon's Odd Couple II (1998)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Trial and Error (1997)

Lost Highway (1997)

Shall We Dance? (1996)

Song ("Save The Last Dance For Me")

That Night (1993)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Song ("This Magic Moment")

The Sandlot (1993)

Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)

Shag: The Movie (1988)

Song ("Seven Lonely Days")

Heartbreak Hotel (1988)

Cocktail (1988)

My American Cousin (1986)

Song ("Save The Last Dance For Me")

L' Hotel de la plage (1986)

Cent Francs l'Amour (1986)

L' Hotel de la plage (1986)

This Is Elvis (1981)

American Pop (1981)

Tous Vedettes (1980)

The Associate (1979)

Yotzim Kavua (1979)

Song ("Save The Last Dance For Me")

Plus ca va, moins ca va (1977)

Monsieur Papa (1977)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1977)

Music Supervisor

La Nuit de Saint-Germain des Pres (1977)

A Nous les Petites Anglaises (1976)

Song Performer ("Botany Bay" "You And Me" "Bye Bye Cry Baby" "Ramsgate Rock" "Why" "My Life" "Gone Are The Days" "Sorrow")

A Nous les Petites Anglaises (1976)

Un Type comme moi ne devrait jamais mourir (1976)

Une Femme Fidele (1976)

Rue Haute (1975)

Les Guichets du Louvre (1974)

Life Events

Videos

Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It’s Trad, Dad!) (1962) Gary U.S. Bonds, Seven Day Weekend Compromised by editing but a not-bad delivery by American Gary U.S. Bonds of his solid (charted at #27) follow-up to his hit Quarter To Three, in the British rock’n’roll variety vehicle from producer Milton Subotsky, Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. “It’s Trad, Dad”), 1962.

Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!) -- (Movie Clip) Del Shannon One of several American rockers introduced in cabaret, with Richard Lester directing shortly before he made A Hard Day's Night for The Beatles, a sweaty Del Shannon (the camera zooming into ECU) with a decent Doc Pomus song, which did not chart, in producer Milton Subotsky's Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!), 1962.

Tickle Me (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Long Lonely Highway Opening on a Greyhound in the Mojave, Elvis Presley as cowboy Lonnie with a tune by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, from Tickle Me, 1965, co-starring Julie Adams and Jocelyn Lane, in Elvis’ only picture for Allied Artists, which rescued the the studio from financial straits.

Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The -- (Movie Clip) Officer Miglioriti Rynn (Jodie Foster) escapes creepy Frank (Martin Sheen) with the help of Officer Miglioriti (Mort Shuman) in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, 1976.

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