Daniele Amfitheatrof

Composer

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Also Known As

D. Amfitheatrof

Birth Place

Russia

Born

October 29, 1901

Died

June 07, 1983

Biography

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Symphony conductor who scored his first film in Italy (Max Ophuls' "La Signora di Tutti" 1934) before immigrating to the US in 1937. Amfitheatrof signed with MGM in 1939 and scored numerous films for various studios over the next three decades. Highlights include "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948, for Ophuls), "The Desert Fox" (1951) and "Major Dundee" (1964)....

Filmography

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Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Major Dundee (1965)

Major Dundee (1965)

Heller in Pink Tights (1960)

Music score and Conductor

That Kind of Woman (1959)

Music scored by

Edge of Eternity (1959)

Music Composition and Conducting

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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant - (Original Trailer)

Devil's Doorway - (Original Trailer)

Biography

Symphony conductor who scored his first film in Italy (Max Ophuls' "La Signora di Tutti" 1934) before immigrating to the US in 1937. Amfitheatrof signed with MGM in 1939 and scored numerous films for various studios over the next three decades. Highlights include "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948, for Ophuls), "The Desert Fox" (1951) and "Major Dundee" (1964).

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Major Dundee (1965)

Major Dundee (1965)

Heller in Pink Tights (1960)

Music score and Conductor

That Kind of Woman (1959)

Music scored by

Edge of Eternity (1959)

Music Composition and Conducting

Spanish Affair (1958)

Fräulein (1958)

From Hell to Texas (1958)

Spanish Affair (1958)

The Unholy Wife (1957)

Music Composition and Conducting

The Mountain (1956)

The Last Hunt (1956)

The Mountain (1956)

Day of Triumph (1954)

Human Desire (1954)

The Naked Jungle (1954)

Day of Triumph (1954)

Scandal at Scourie (1953)

Devil's Canyon (1953)

Music for dances

Bird of Paradise (1951)

Angels in the Outfield (1951)

The Desert Fox (1951)

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

The Painted Hills (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

The Capture (1950)

Copper Canyon (1950)

Devil's Doorway (1950)

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Backfire (1950)

Under My Skin (1950)

You Gotta Stay Happy (1949)

House of Strangers (1949)

The Senator Was Indiscreet (1948)

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Another Part of the Forest (1948)

An Act of Murder (1948)

Rogues' Regiment (1948)

The Beginning or the End (1947)

Smash Up--The Story of a Woman (1947)

Singapore (1947)

The Lost Moment (1947)

The Virginian (1946)

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

Song of the South (1946)

Photoplay score

Suspense (1946)

Temptation (1946)

Guest Wife (1945)

Days of Glory (1944)

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Lost Angel (1944)

Cry 'Havoc' (1944)

Northwest Rangers (1943)

Aerial Gunner (1943)

A Stranger in Town (1943)

High Explosive (1943)

Harrigan's Kid (1943)

Lassie Come Home (1943)

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)

Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Johnny Eager (1942)

Sunday Punch (1942)

Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)

The Captain of Koepenick (1941)

Unholy Partners (1941)

Billy the Kid (1941)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

The Get-Away (1941)

The Man from Dakota (1940)

Northwest Passage (Book I--Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

Keeping Company (1940)

And One Was Beautiful (1940)

Fast and Furious (1939)

La Signora di Tutti (1934)

Music (Short)

Plan for Destruction (1943)

Brief Interval (1943)

FURTHER PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS (1942)

The Woman in the House (1942)

Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942)

VICTORY QUIZ (1942)

Vendetta (1942)

Forbidden Passage (1941)

1-2-3 Go! (1941)

This Is the Bowery (1941)

Out of Darkness (1941)

Whispers (1941)

Coffins on Wheels (1941)

You Can't Fool a Camera (1941)

More Trifles of Importance (1941)

Main Street on the March! (1941)

Strange Testament (1941)

Scenic Grandeur (1941)

The Hidden Master (1940)

The Old South (1940)

Servant of Mankind (1940)

The Miracle of Sound (1940)

Soak the Old (1940)

Eyes of the Navy (1940)

Utopia of Death (1940)

A Way in the Wilderness (1940)

XXX Medico (1940)

Prophet Without Honor (1939)

The Ash Can Fleet (1939)

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939)

A Failure at Fifty (1939)

Northward, Ho! (1939)

One Against the World (1939)

Forgotten Victory (1939)

The Giant of Norway (1939)

Life Events

1934

First film score for "La Signora di Tutti"

1937

Immigrated to the US

1937

Associate conductor of Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

1938

Guest conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra

1939

Signed with MGM

1943

Scored first American film

Videos

Major Dundee (The Extended Version Trailer) The trailer for the 2005 extended version of Sam Peckinpah's troubled movie Major Dundee (1965).

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant - (Original Trailer) Three young surgeons vie to replace the legendary Dr. Kildare in Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942).

Devil's Doorway - (Original Trailer) A Native American Civil War hero (Robert Taylor) returns home to fight for his people. Directed by Anthony Mann.

Major Dundee - (Original Trailer) A Union officer (Charlton Heston) leads Confederate prisoners against Apaches in Mexico in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965).

Beginning or the End, The - (Original Trailer) Two years after the events, MGM recounts how the United States developed and dropped the atomic bomb in The Beginning or the End (1947).

Lassie Come Home - (Original Trailer) A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to his lost family in Lassie Come Home (1943) starring Roddy McDowall.

Keeping Company - (Original Trailer) The engagement of a young man (John Shelton) is jeopardized by the return of an old girlfriend (Virginia Grey).

Cry Havoc - (Original Trailer) Cry Havoc (1943) as a group of nurses stay behind to treat the wounded after the Japanese seize Bataan during World War II.

Heller In Pink Tights - (Original Trailer) Touring actors in the wild West brave Indians and outlaws in Heller In Pink Tights (1960) starring Sophia Loren, directed by George Cukor.

Man from Dakota, The - (Original Trailer) A Yankee soldier becomes a spy with the help of a beautiful woman in The Man From Dakota (1940) starring Wallace Beery.

Harrigan's Kid - (Original Trailer) A disgraced jockey teaches a boy to ride and cheat in Harrigan's Kid (1943).

And One Was Beautiful - (Original Trailer) Two sisters vie for the same dashing young man (Robert Cummings) in And One Was Beautiful (1940).

Mountain, The - (Black-and-white trailer) Brother mountain climbers clash over how to deal with the survivor of a plane crash in The Mountain (1956).

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