Leonard Rosenman Biography (1924-)

Born September 7, 1924, in Brooklyn, NY; son of a store owner; married; wife's name, Kay. Addresses: Contact: c/o Dworkin and Associates, P.O. Box248, Bedford Hills, NY 10507-0248.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer, conductor, educator
Birth Details: September 7, 1924; Brooklyn, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Music director, East of Eden (also known as John Steinbeck's East of Eden), Warner Bros., 1955
Music conductor, Pork Chop Hill, United Artists, 1959
Music conductor, The Plunderers, Allied Artists, 1960
Music conductor, The Savage Eye, 1960
Music director, The Outsider, Universal, 1962
Music conductor, Countdown, Warner Bros., 1968
Music director and conductor, Barry Lyndon, Warner Bros., 1975
Music director, Bound for Glory, United Artists, 1976
Music director, The Lord of the Rings (also known as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings), United Artists, 1978
Television Work
Music conductor, Sherlock Holmes in New York (movie), NBC, 1976
Music arranger, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible (special), Artsand Entertainment, 1992
Television Appearances
Specials
James Dean: The First American Teenager, 1975
The 49th Annual Academy Awards, 1977
Der Klang der Bilder, 1995
The Hollywood Soundtrack Story, AMC, 1995
Interviewee, James Dean: A Portrait, The Disney Channel, 1995
WRITINGS
Film Music
The Cobweb, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1955
East of Eden (also known as John Steinbeck's East of Eden),Warner Bros., 1955
Rebel without a Cause, Warner Bros., 1955
Bombers B-52 (also known as No Sleep Till Dawn), Warner Bros., 1957
Edge of the City (also known as A Man Is Ten Feet Tall), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1957
The Young Stranger, Universal, 1957
Lafayette Escadrille (also known as Hell Bent for Glory, With You in My Arms, and C'est la guerre), Warner Bros., 1958
Pork Chop Hill, United Artists, 1959
The Bramble Bush, Warner Bros., 1960
The Crowded Sky, Warner Bros., 1960
The Plunderers, Allied Artists, 1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, Warner Bros., 1960
The Savage Eye, 1960
The Chapman Report, Warner Bros., 1962
Convicts 4 (also known as Reprieve), Allied Artists, 1962
Hell Is for Heroes, Paramount, 1962
The Outsider, Universal, 1962
A Covenant with Death, Warner Bros., 1966
Fantastic Voyage (also known as Microscopia and StrangeJourney), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966
Countdown, Warner Bros., 1968
Hellfighters, 1968
This Savage Land, Universal, 1969
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970
A Man Called Horse, National General, 1970
The Todd Killings (also known as A Dangerous Friend and Skipper), National General, 1971
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (also known as Colonization of the Planet of the Apes), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973
Music adaptor, Barry Lyndon, Warner Bros., 1975
Race with the Devil, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
Rooster Cogburn, 1975
The Return of a Man Called Horse, 1976

Birch Interval, Gamma III, 1976
Music adaptation, Bound for Glory, United Artists, 1976
The Car, Universal, 1977
9/30/55 (also known as 24 Hours of the Rebel), Universal, 1977
An Enemy of the People, Warner Bros., 1978
(Including the song "Mithrandir") The Lord of the Rings (also known as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings), United Artists, 1978
Promises in the Dark, Warner Bros., 1979
Prophecy, Paramount, 1979
Hide in Plain Sight, United Artists, 1980
Additional music and incidental music, The Jazz Singer, AssociatedFilm, 1980
Making Love, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982
Cross Creek, Universal, 1983
Heart of the Stag, New World, 1984
Sylvia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists Classics, 1985
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (also known as The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV), Paramount, 1986
Body Wars, 1989
Robocop 2, Orion, 1990
Ambition, Miramax, 1991
The Color of Evening, August Entertainment, 1994
Levitation, Tenth Muse Productions, 1997
Jurij, Key Film Distributors, 2001
Songs Featured in Films
"I Leaned on a Man," The Big Land, Warner Bros., 1958
Television Music
Series
The Virginian (also known as Men from Shiloh), NBC, 1970
Primus, syndicated, 1971
Nakia, ABC, 1974
Gibbsville, NBC, 1976
Holmes and Yoyo, ABC, 1976
Rafferty, CBS, 1977
Also composer for the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Combat! (including theme music), The Defenders (including theme music), Falcon Crest, Garrison's' Gorillas, Law of the Plainsman(also known as The Westerners), Marcus Welby, M.D. (also knownas Robert Young, Family Doctor), McKeever and the Colonel, National Geographic Specials, Quincy (also known as Quincy, M.E.), The Twilight Zone, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
Movies
Stranger on the Run (also known as Lonesome Gun), 1967
Shadow over Elveron, 1968
Any Second Now, 1969
Banyon, NBC, 1971
In Broad Daylight, ABC, 1971
Vanished, NBC, 1971
The Bravos, ABC, 1972
The Cat Creature, ABC, 1973
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders, ABC, 1974
The Phantom of Hollywood, CBS, 1974
The First Thirty-Six Hours of Dr. Durant, ABC, 1975
Sky Heist (also known as Sky Hei$t), NBC, 1975
Kingston: The Power Play (also known as Kingston and TheNewspaper Game), NBC, 1976
Lanigan's Rabbi (also known as Friday the Rabbi Slept Late), NBC, 1976
Mary White, ABC, 1977
The Possessed, NBC, 1977
The Other Side of Hell (also known as The Next Howling Wind), NBC, 1978
Friendly Fire, ABC, 1979
Nero Wolfe, ABC, 1979
City in Fear, ABC, 1980
The Wall, CBS, 1982
Heartsounds, ABC, 1984
The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D., ABC, 1984
First Steps, CBS, 1985
Promised a Miracle, CBS, 1988
Where Pigeons Go to Die, NBC, 1990
Aftermath: A Test of Love, CBS, 1991
Keeper of the City, Showtime, 1991
The Face on the Milk Carton, CBS, 1995
Mrs. Munck, Showtime, 1995
Miniseries
Sybil, NBC, 1976
Murder in Texas, NBC, 1981
Celebrity (also known as Tommy Thompson's Celebrity), NBC,1984
Pilots
Marcus Welby, M.D. (also known as A Matter of Humanities),1969
Nakia, ABC, 1974
Joshua's World, CBS, 1980
Specials
"Miss Lonelyhearts," American Playhouse, PBS, 1983
"No Day at the Beach," Amazing Stories, 1986
Charles Heston Presents the Bible, Arts and Entertainment, 1992
Other
Composer for orchestra and chamber orchestra. Contributor of articles toperiodicals, including Film Music and Perspectives of New Music.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

"No Day at the Beach," an episode of the television series Amazing Stories, for which Rosenman composed the music, was included in the video Amazing Stories: Book Three, released by MCA/Universal Home Video, 1992.

OTHER SOURCES

Books

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press, 1996

Periodicals

New York Times, August 29, 1982

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