Biography
Hans J. Salter (January 14, 1896 in Vienna – July 23, 1994 in Studio City, Cal.) was an Austrian-American film composer. Salter gained his education from the Vienna Academy of Music and studied composition with Alban Berg, Franz Schreker, and others. He worked for the Berlin State Opera before being hired in 1928 to compose music at UFA studios. Salter emigrated to America in 1937 and was quickly put under contract at Universal, where he worked for nearly 30 years, arranging, composing, conducting, and serving as music director.
He composed mainly for Universal, most famously for horror and science fiction films but also for other studios and for television. His most celebrated scores include The Wolf Man (1941), Scarlet Street (1945), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Salter was nominated for an Academy Award for several films, including Christmas Holiday (1944) and This Love Of Ours (1945). Much of his output for Universal was uncredited, where it was used as stock music, in minor pictures. Notable non-horror scores include the Western Bend of the River (1953) and the swashbucklers Against All Flags (1952) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Universal's first Cinemascope production.
Salter died in Studio City, California on July 23, 1994, at the age of 98, and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Filmography
all 186
Movies 185
Director 28
TV Shows 1
Budd Boetticher: One On One (1989)
Return of the Gunfighter (1967)
Let's Kill Uncle (1966)
Beau Geste (1966)
Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Gunpoint (1966)
Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)
The Wolf Man (1966)
The War Lord (1965)
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Bedtime Story (1964)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
Showdown (1963)
If a Man Answers (1962)
Follow That Dream (1962)
Hitler (1962)
Come September (1961)
The Law and Mr. Jones (1960)
The Leech Woman (1960)
The Man in the Net (1959)
The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Raw Wind in Eden (1958)
Step Down to Terror (1958)
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
Day of the Badman (1958)
The Female Animal (1958)
The Tall Stranger (1957)
The Land Unknown (1957)
Appointment with a Shadow (1957)
The Midnight Story (1957)
The Oklahoman (1957)
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Mole People (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Hold Back The Night (1956)
The Rawhide Years (1956)
Navy Wife (1956)
Red Sundown (1956)
Inside Detroit (1956)
Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
The Far Horizons (1955)
Wichita (1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Women's Prison (1955)
Sign of the Pagan (1954)
Bengal Brigade (1954)
The Human Jungle (1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
Yankee Pasha (1954)
Saskatchewan (1954)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Far Country (1954)
Against All Flags (1952)
The Black Castle (1952)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Untamed Frontier (1952)
Flesh and Fury (1952)
The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
Finders Keepers (1952)
Thunder on the Hill (1951)
The Golden Horde (1951)
You Never Can Tell (1951)
Iron Man (1951)
The Strange Door (1951)
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Apache Drums (1951)
Tomahawk (1951)
Frenchie (1950)
Undercover Girl (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Shakedown (1950)
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Spy Hunt (1950)
Please Believe Me (1950)
Borderline (1950)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
Cover Up (1949)
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948)
An Innocent Affair (1948)
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
Love from a Stranger (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Michigan Kid (1947)
The Web (1947)
That's My Man (1947)
Magnificent Doll (1946)
The Dark Horse (1946)
Lover Come Back (1946)
Valley of the Zombies (1946)
The Cat Creeps (1946)
So Goes My Love (1946)
Little Miss Big (1946)
Scarlet Street (1945)
This Love of Ours (1945)
River Gang (1945)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
The Jungle Captive (1945)
That's the Spirit (1945)
Can't Help Singing (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
San Diego I Love You (1944)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
Jungle Woman (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
The Spider Woman (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
His Butler's Sister (1943)
Never a Dull Moment (1943)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
All by Myself (1943)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Mug Town (1942)
The Old Chisholm Trail (1942)
Madame Spy (1942)
Who Done It? (1942)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Night Monster (1942)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Invisible Agent (1942)
The Silver Bullet (1942)
Drums of the Congo (1942)
The Spoilers (1942)
Tough as They Come (1942)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
The Wolf Man (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Hit the Road (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Man-Made Monster (1941)
Horror Island (1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Seven Sinners (1940)
Spring Parade (1940)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
South to Karanga (1940)
Zanzibar (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Big Guy (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
First Love (1939)
The Great Commandment (1939)
Ex-Champ (1939)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Danger on the Air (1938)
The Rage of Paris (1938)
Singende Jugend (1936)
Catherine the Last (1936)
Liebe auf Bretteln (1935)
Four and a Half Musketeers (1935)
Everything for the Company (1935)
The Four Müllers (1935)
Polibek ve sněhu (1935)
Carnival of Love (1934)
Madame Wants No Children (1933)
Scherben bringen Glück (1932)
My Friend the Millionaire (1932)
Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932)
Gloria (1931)
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GenderMale
Birthday1896-01-14
Deathday1994-07-23 (98 years old)
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
CitizenshipsAustria
Also Known AsHans Salter, H. J. Salter
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