Fred Karlin

Composer

About

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Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Born

June 16, 1936

Died

March 26, 2004

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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Academy Award-winning musician Fred Karlin made quite a career for himself. Karlin began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Sandy Dennis dramatic adaptation "Up the Down Staircase" (1967), the Lucille Ball comedy adaptation "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and the Gregory Peck adaptation "The Stalking Moon" (1968). He followed this honor with songs in "Cov...

Filmography

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The Pest (1997)

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993)

Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993)

The Secret (1992)

Survive the Savage Sea (1992)

The Last Prostitute (1991)

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Westworld (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Disease Of Machinery

Biography

Academy Award-winning musician Fred Karlin made quite a career for himself. Karlin began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Sandy Dennis dramatic adaptation "Up the Down Staircase" (1967), the Lucille Ball comedy adaptation "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and the Gregory Peck adaptation "The Stalking Moon" (1968). He followed this honor with songs in "Cover Me Babe" (1970) and "Lovers and Other Strangers" (1970) with Bonnie Bedelia. Karlin won an Academy Award for "The Sterile Cuckoo" in 1969. In the seventies and the eighties, Karlin's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like "Mean Dog Blues" (1978), "California Dreaming" (1979) and the action film "Ravagers" (1979) with Richard Harris. His work was also in "Attack of the Phantoms" (1980). Karlin's music was most recently used in the John Leguizamo comedy "The Pest" (1997). Karlin was nominated for a Music (Original Song Score) Academy Award for "The Baby Maker" in 1970 as well as for a Music (Song--Original For the Picture) Academy Award for "The Little Ark" in 1972. Karlin won a Music (Song--Original For the Picture) Academy Award for "Lovers and Other Strangers" in 1970 as well as a Best Music Composition Primetime Emmy Award for "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" in 1974. Karlin passed away in March 2004 at the age of 68.

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

The Pest (1997)

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993)

Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story (1993)

The Secret (1992)

Survive the Savage Sea (1992)

The Last Prostitute (1991)

Lethal Charm (1991)

Murder C.O.D. (1990)

Fearstalk (1989)

Bridge To Silence (1989)

What Price Victory (1988)

Lady Mobster (1988)

Celebration Family (1987)

Celebration Family (1987)

The Facts of Life Down Under (1987)

A Place to Call Home (1987)

Vasectomy, a Delicate Matter (1986)

Hostage Flight (1985)

Kids Don't Tell (1985)

Final Jeopardy (1985)

Calamity Jane (1984)

In Defense of Kids (1983)

Baby Sister (1983)

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)

One Cooks, The Other Doesn't (1983)

Policewoman Centerfold (1983)

Policewoman Centerfold (1983)

The First Time (1983)

Night Partners (1983)

Deadly Encounter (1982)

Not in Front of the Children (1982)

Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982)

We're Fighting Back (1981)

Broken Promise (1981)

The Five Of Me (1981)

Miracle On Ice (1981)

Bitter Harvest (1981)

Thornwell (1981)

Fighting Back (1980)

Cloud Dancer (1980)

Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980)

Baby Comes Home (1980)

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)

The Plutonium Incident (1980)

Loving Couples (1980)

Homeward Bound (1980)

Homeward Bound (1980)

Attack of the Phantoms (1980)

Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980)

Loving Couples (1980)

A Time For Miracles (1980)

Cloud Dancer (1980)

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980)

My Kidnapper, My Love (1980)

Once Upon a Family (1980)

And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)

The Last Giraffe (1979)

Sex and the Single Parent (1979)

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)

Walking Through the Fire (1979)

The Last Giraffe (1979)

Transplant (1979)

This Man Stands Alone (1979)

And Baby Makes Six (1979)

The Ravagers (1979)

California Dreaming (1979)

Lady of the House (1978)

More Than Friends (1978)

Christmas Miracle In Caufield, Usa (1978)

Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)

Mean Dog Blues (1978)

Leave Yesterday Behind (1978)

Deadman's Curve (1978)

The Gift of Love (1978)

Just Me and You (1978)

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)

Bud and Lou (1978)

The Gift of Love (1978)

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)

Leave Yesterday Behind (1978)

Long Journey Back (1978)

Man From Atlantis (1977)

The Hostage Heart (1977)

Having Babies II (1977)

The Death of Richie (1977)

Greased Lightning (1977)

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish (1977)

The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977)

Minstrel Man (1977)

Green Eyes (1977)

Greased Lightning (1977)

Songs ("Maybe Tomorrow" "All Come True")

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977)

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish (1977)

Intimate Strangers (1977)

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977)

The Man from Atlantis (1977)

Joe Panther (1976)

Baby Blue Marine (1976)

Woman Of The Year (1976)

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)

Futureworld (1976)

Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976)

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)

Leadbelly (1976)

Death Be Not Proud (1975)

Dream Makers (1975)

The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Punch and Jody (1974)

The Take (1974)

It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer (1974)

Mixed Company (1974)

Zandy's Bride (1974)

Gravy Train (1974)

The Spikes Gang (1974)

Bad Ronald (1974)

Chosen Survivors (1974)

Born Innocent (1974)

The Man Who Could Talk to Kids (1973)

Westworld (1973)

The Little Ark (1972)

Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)

The Little Ark (1972)

Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)

Believe in Me (1971)

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)

Believe in Me (1971)

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971)

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

The Baby Maker (1970)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

The Baby Maker (1970)

Cover Me Babe (1970)

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

The Stalking Moon (1968)

Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968)

Music comp, Arrangements & Conductor

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Music Composition

Music (Special)

Flour Babies (1990)

Hardesty House (1986)

Full House (1983)

Lovers and Other Strangers (1983)

Inspector Perez (1983)

Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)

Catalina C-Lab (1982)

The World Beyond (1978)

McLaren's Riders (1977)

The World of Darkness (1977)

Music (TV Mini-Series)

Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (1997)

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)

Dadah Is Death (1988)

Dadah Is Death (1988)

Dream West (1986)

Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985)

Love Leads the Way (1984)

Inside the Third Reich (1982)

Valley Of The Dolls (1981)

Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980)

Blind Ambition (1979)

Ike: The War Years (1979)

The Awakening Land (1978)

The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)

Life Events

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Westworld (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Disease Of Machinery Alan Oppenheimer is the never-named chief technician at “Delos,” which is the futuristic amusement facility where tourists pay to attend fantasy worlds, observing overnight repairs and commenting on a pattern of robot malfunctions, in writer-director Michael Crichton’s Westworld, 1973.

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