Biography
Russell Garcia, QSM (12 April 1916 – 19 November 2011) was an American composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast.
Garcia was born in Oakland, California, but was a longtime resident of New Zealand. Self-taught, his break came when he substituted for an ill colleague on a radio show. Subsequently, he went on to become a composer/arranger at NBC Studios for such television shows as Rawhide 1962 and Laredo, 1965–67. He worked at Universal Studios and MGM, where at the latter he composed and conducted the original scores for such films as George Pal's The Time Machine (1960) and Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961). He also orchestrated the music for Father Goose (1964) and The Benny Goodman Story (1956). Garcia collaborated with many Hollywood musicians and celebrities, including Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Mel Torme, Julie London, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini, and Charlie Chaplin making arrangements and conducting orchestras as needed. Russ loved to ski so he would write on-site scores to ski-content films.
Filmography
all 19
Movies 17
TV Shows 2
Backtrack! (1969)
Three Guns for Texas (1968)
The Pad and How to Use It (1966)
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 (1963)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
Come September (1961)
The Time Machine (1960)
Rawhide (1959)
Wuthering Heights (1958)
Cole Porter's Aladdin (1958)
DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
The Greer Case (1957)
Massacre at Sand Creek (1956)
Gunslinger (1956)
Operation Haylift (1950)
Radar Secret Service (1950)
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949)
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GenderMale
Birthday1916-04-12
Deathday2011-11-19 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceOakland, United States of America
ReligionBaháʼí Faith
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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