David Buttolph

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David Buttolph (born James David Buttolph Jr., August 3, 1902 – January 1, 1983) was a film composer who scored over 300 movies in his career. Born in New York City, Buttolph showed musical talent at an early age, and eventually studied music formally. After earning a music degree, Buttolph moved to Europe in 1923 and studied in Austria and Germany supporting himself as a nightclub pianist. He returned to the U.S. in 1927 and, a few years later, began working for NBC radio network as an arranger and conductor. In 1933, Buttolph moved to Los Angeles and began working in films. Buttolph's best work, according to many, was his work as an arranger on Alfred Newman-directed The Mark of Zorro (1940).

In the mid-1950s, Buttolph started to write scores television, the most memorable being the theme for the TV western Maverick with the same music appearing in his score of The Lone Ranger (1956). He continued write music for television, many times westerns until his retirement in 1963.

[edit] Filmography

• The New Maverick (1978) (TV) (theme song)
• The Man from Galveston (1963)
• PT 109 (1963)
• The Virginian (1962) TV Series
• Guns of the Timberland (1960)
• Adventures in Paradise (1959) TV Series (uncredited)
• The Alaskans (1959) TV Series
• The Horse Soldiers (1959)
• Westbound (1959)
• Home Before Dark (1958) (stock music) (uncredited)
• 77 Sunset Strip (1958) TV Series
• Onionhead (1958)
• The Deep Six (1958)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) TV Series
• Satan's Satellites (1958) (stock music) (uncredited)
• Maverick (1957) TV Series (theme)
• Wagon Train (1957) TV Series
• Sugarfoot (1957) TV Series (uncredited)
• The D.I. (1957)
• The Big Land (1957)
• Conflict (1956) TV Series (also theme)
• Noah's Ark (1956) TV Series
• The Burning Hills (1956)
• A Cry in the Night (1956)
• Santiago (1956)
• The Steel Jungle (1956)
• I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
• Jump Into Hell (1955)
• Kings Row (1955) TV Series
• Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (incidental music) (uncredited)
• Pirates of Tripoli (1955) (stock music) (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Long John Silver (1955) TV Series
• Secret of the Incas (1954)
• Riding Shotgun(1954)
• Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
• The Boy from Oklahoma (1954) (stock music) (uncredited)
• Crime Wave (1954)
• Calamity Jane (1953) (uncredited)
• Prisoners of the Casbah (1953) (stock music) (uncredited)
• Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
• South Sea Woman (1953)
• House of Wax (1953)
• The Man Behind the Gun (1953)
• My Man and I (1952)
• Carson City (1952)
• Talk About a Stranger (1952)
• This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
• Lone Star (1952)
• Submarine Command (1951)
• Ten Tall Men (1951)
• A Place in the Sun (1951) (uncredited)
• Along the Great Divide (1951)
• June Bride (1948)