Miklós Rózsa

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany (1925 – 1931), and active in France (1931 – 1935), England (1935 – 1940), and the United States (1940 – 1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953. Famous for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life." Rózsa achieved early success in Europe with his orchestral Theme, Variations, and Finale (Op. 13) of 1933 and became prominent in the film industry from such early scores as The Four Feathers (1939) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). The latter project brought him to America when production was transferred from wartime Britain, and Rózsa remained in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1946. His notable Hollywood career earned him considerable fame, including Academy Awards for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben-Hur (1959), while his concert works were championed by such major artists as Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and János Starker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miklós Rózsa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

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8

Ben-Hur

(1959) Original Music Composer

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8

The Lost Weekend

(1945) Original Music Composer

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7

King of Kings

(1961) Original Music Composer

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8

Double Indemnity

(1944) Original Music Composer

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7

Quo Vadis

(1951) Original Music Composer

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7

Spellbound

(1945) Original Music Composer

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7

The Thief of Bagdad

(1940) Story

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7

El Cid

(1961) Original Music Composer

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1976	Self	Hollywood's Musical Moods 1976-02-16 Movie
1959	Self	Discorama 1959-02-04 TV Show
1953	Conductor	The Story of Three Loves 1953-03-26 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1982	Original Music Composer	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982-05-21 Movie
1981	Original Music Composer	Eye of the Needle 1981-07-24 Movie
1979	Original Music Composer	Time After Time 1979-08-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Last Embrace 1979-05-04 Movie
1978	Original Music Composer	Fedora 1978-06-29 Movie
1977	Original Music Composer	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover 1977-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Providence 1977-01-25 Movie
1973	Original Music Composer	The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973-12-20 Movie
1970	Original Music Composer	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970-10-29 Movie
1968	Original Music Composer	The Green Berets 1968-07-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Power 1968-02-21 Movie
1963	Original Music Composer	The V.I.P.s 1963-09-01 Movie
1962	Original Music Composer	Sodom and Gomorrah 1962-10-04 Movie
1961	Original Music Composer	El Cid 1961-10-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	King of Kings 1961-10-11 Movie
1959	Original Music Composer	Ben-Hur 1959-11-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959-05-01 Movie
1958	Original Music Composer	A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958-07-09 Movie
1957	Music	Van Gogh: Darkness into Light 1957-09-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tip on a Dead Jockey 1957-09-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Seventh Sin 1957-06-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Something of Value 1957-05-08 Movie
1956	Original Music Composer	Lust for Life 1956-09-15 Movie
	Music Director	Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956-07-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bhowani Junction 1956-05-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tribute to a Bad Man 1956-03-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Diane 1956-01-12 Movie
	Music	Inside Detroit 1956-01-01 Movie
1955	Original Music Composer	The King's Thief 1955-08-05 Movie
	Conductor	The King's Thief 1955-08-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Moonfleet 1955-06-24 Movie
	Music	Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops 1955-02-02 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	Green Fire 1954-12-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Valley of the Kings 1954-07-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Seagulls Over Sorrento 1954-07-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Men of the Fighting Lady 1954-05-07 Movie
1953	Original Music Composer	Knights of the Round Table 1953-12-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	All the Brothers Were Valiant 1953-11-13 Movie
	Music	Julius Caesar 1953-06-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Young Bess 1953-05-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Story of Three Loves 1953-03-26 Movie
1952	Original Music Composer	Plymouth Adventure 1952-11-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ivanhoe 1952-07-31 Movie
1951	Original Music Composer	The Light Touch 1951-12-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Quo Vadis 1951-11-08 Movie
	Music	Detective Story 1951-11-01 Movie
	Music	The Strange Door 1951-06-21 Movie
	Music	Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 1951-04-12 Movie
	Music	One Who Came Back 1951-01-01 Movie
1950	Original Music Composer	Crisis 1950-07-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Asphalt Jungle 1950-05-12 Movie
1949	Original Music Composer	East Side, West Side 1949-12-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Adam's Rib 1949-11-18 Movie
	Music	Abandoned 1949-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Red Danube 1949-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Madame Bovary 1949-08-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Criss Cross 1949-02-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bribe 1949-02-03 Movie
1948	Original Music Composer	Command Decision 1948-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948-10-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Naked City 1948-03-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Woman's Vengeance 1948-03-02 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	A Double Life 1947-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Secret Beyond the Door... 1947-12-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Desert Fury 1947-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Brute Force 1947-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Other Love 1947-05-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Time Out of Mind 1947-05-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Macomber Affair 1947-04-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Song of Scheherazade 1947-02-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Red House 1947-02-04 Movie
1946	Original Music Composer	The Killers 1946-08-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946-08-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Because of Him 1946-01-18 Movie
1945	Original Music Composer	The Lost Weekend 1945-11-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Spellbound 1945-11-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lady on a Train 1945-08-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Blood on the Sun 1945-04-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Man in Half Moon Street 1945-01-19 Movie
1944	Original Music Composer	Dark Waters 1944-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Double Indemnity 1944-06-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Hour Before the Dawn 1944-05-10 Movie
1943	Original Music Composer	The Woman of the Town 1943-12-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sahara 1943-09-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	So Proudly We Hail 1943-09-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Five Graves to Cairo 1943-05-26 Movie
1942	Original Music Composer	Jacaré 1942-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jungle Book 1942-04-03 Movie
1941	Original Music Composer	Sundown 1941-10-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lydia 1941-09-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	New Wine 1941-09-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	That Hamilton Woman 1941-04-03 Movie
1940	Original Music Composer	The Thief of Bagdad 1940-12-25 Movie
	Songs	The Thief of Bagdad 1940-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ten Days in Paris 1940-06-01 Movie
1939	Original Music Composer	On the Night of the Fire 1939-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Spy in Black 1939-08-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Four Feathers 1939-04-20 Movie
1938	Original Music Composer	The Divorce of Lady X 1938-01-15 Movie
1937	Original Music Composer	The Green Cockatoo 1937-12-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Squeaker 1937-11-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Knight Without Armour 1937-07-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Thunder in the City 1937-04-22 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv