Biography
Paul Sawtell (born Sawatzki, 3 February 1906, Gilwe, Poland – 1 August 1971) was a Polish-born film score composer in the United States.
Sawtell began his career with RKO, and eventually joined Universal Pictures. Sawtell worked on many western and horror films, and also scored the Sherlock Holmes films The Pearl of Death and The Scarlet Claw. In the late 1940s, Sawtell returned to RKO. He also worked for various independent producers, including Eagle-Lion Films' production of T-Men (1947). He also composed and arranged the uncredited music for the Venice, Italy sequences in This is Cinerama (1952).
In the late 1950s, Sawtell struck up an alliance with fellow film composer Bert Shefter and they produced many film scores together, including those of classic science fiction and horror films such as Kronos, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Return of the Fly, The Lost World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (in cooperation with producer Irwin Allen), and Jack the Giant Killer in 1962. In 1965 they composed some scores for the director Russ Meyer, such as the cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Motorpsycho. The last score they provided was for the Mexican film Emiliano Zapata in 1970 shortly before Sawtell's death. Perhaps Sawtell's best-known composition is the main theme for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV series, adapted from Allen's 1961 feature film, for which Sawtell had written a different theme.
Sawtell had a home near Demuth Park in Palm Springs, California. He died in 1971 and is buried at Glendale, California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Filmography
all 278
Movies 278
Director 18
They Call Him Marcado (1971)
The Gatling Gun (1971)
Emiliano Zapata (1970)
The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)
The Bubble (1966)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Motor Psycho (1965)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Thunder Island (1963)
Cattle King (1963)
Harbor Lights (1963)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
Young Guns of Texas (1962)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
About Time (1962)
Wild Harvest (1962)
Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Misty (1961)
The Big Show (1961)
Gun Fight (1961)
Operation Bottleneck (1961)
The Long Rope (1961)
Frontier Uprising (1961)
Police Dog Story (1961)
Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)
Tess of the Storm Country (1960)
The Walking Target (1960)
The Lost World (1960)
Cage of Evil (1960)
The Music Box Kid (1960)
Noose for a Gunman (1960)
Virgin Sacrifice (1960)
Three Came to Kill (1960)
A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
Vice Raid (1959)
Pier 5, Havana (1959)
Counterplot (1959)
The Miracle of the Hills (1959)
The Big Circus (1959)
Return of the Fly (1959)
Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)
A Dog of Flanders (1959)
The Sad Horse (1959)
The Cosmic Man (1959)
Machete (1958)
Villa!! (1958)
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
The Hunters (1958)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
The Fly (1958)
Sierra Baron (1958)
Cattle Empire (1958)
Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)
Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)
Stopover Tokyo (1957)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
The Black Scorpion (1957)
Ghost Diver (1957)
The Deerslayer (1957)
Pawnee (1957)
Gun Duel In Durango (1957)
She Devil (1957)
Kronos (1957)
Last of the Badmen (1957)
Five Steps to Danger (1956)
The Desperados Are in Town (1956)
The Animal World (1956)
Texas Lady (1955)
A Lawless Street (1955)
The Marauders (1955)
Tall Man Riding (1955)
Rage at Dawn (1955)
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
They Rode West (1954)
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Return to Treasure Island (1954)
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
The Diamond Queen (1953)
Flight to Tangier (1953)
Inferno (1953)
Arrowhead (1953)
The Sea Around Us (1953)
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Pony Express (1953)
Below the Sahara (1953)
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
Half a Hero (1953)
Sky Full of Moon (1952)
The Black Castle (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Hurricane Smith (1952)
The Savage (1952)
Desert Passage (1952)
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
The Half-Breed (1952)
Target (1952)
Road Agent (1952)
Trail Guide (1952)
Flaming Feather (1952)
Overland Telegraph (1951)
Silver City (1951)
Warpath (1951)
Another Man's Poison (1951)
The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Fort Defiance (1951)
The Whip Hand (1951)
Hot Lead (1951)
Roadblock (1951)
Pistol Harvest (1951)
Best of the Badmen (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Gunplay (1951)
New Mexico (1951)
Land of the Zuider Zee (1951)
Saddle Legion (1951)
Santa Fe (1951)
Law of the Badlands (1951)
Rogue River (1951)
The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
Springtime in the Netherlands (1951)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Stage to Tucson (1950)
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Rio Grande Patrol (1950)
Outrage (1950)
Bunco Squad (1950)
Border Treasure (1950)
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
The Cariboo Trail (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
Rider from Tucson (1950)
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
Storm Over Wyoming (1950)
Dynamite Pass (1950)
Colorful Holland (1950)
Riders of the Range (1950)
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
The Threat (1949)
Fighting Man of the Plains (1949)
In Old Amsterdam (1949)
Savage Splendor (1949)
The Mysterious Desperado (1949)
From Liverpool to Stratford (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Black Magic (1949)
Masked Raiders (1949)
Stagecoach Kid (1949)
The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Roughshod (1949)
Quebec in Summertime (1949)
The Big Cat (1949)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Rustlers (1949)
Bad Boy (1949)
Brothers in the Saddle (1949)
Gun Smugglers (1948)
Indian Agent (1948)
Bodyguard (1948)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Mystery in Mexico (1948)
Variety Time (1948)
Four Faces West (1948)
Northwest Stampede (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
Guns of Hate (1948)
Design for Death (1948)
River Lady (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
The Arizona Ranger (1948)
The Black Arrow (1948)
Western Heritage (1948)
For You I Die (1947)
T-Men (1947)
Wild Horse Mesa (1947)
The Last Round-up (1947)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
The Sea Hound (1947)
Under the Tonto Rim (1947)
Desperate (1947)
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
Thunder Mountain (1947)
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Code of the West (1947)
Trail Street (1947)
Blind Spot (1947)
Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)
San Quentin (1946)
The Falcon's Adventure (1946)
Vacation in Reno (1946)
Criminal Court (1946)
Step by Step (1946)
Sunset Pass (1946)
Renegades (1946)
The Cat Creeps (1946)
Mysterious Intruder (1946)
Perilous Holiday (1946)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
The Fighting Guardsman (1946)
A Game of Death (1945)
Snafu (1945)
The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
West of the Pecos (1945)
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
The Jungle Captive (1945)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Beyond the Pecos (1945)
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
The House of Fear (1945)
Nevada (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
One Mysterious Night (1944)
Youth Runs Wild (1944)
The Girl Who Dared (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Secret Command (1944)
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Jungle Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Death Valley Manhunt (1943)
Arizona Trail (1943)
Henry Aldrich Swings It (1943)
Hit the Ice (1943)
Power of the Press (1943)
Cinderella Swings It (1943)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Red River Robin Hood (1942)
Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)
Bandit Ranger (1942)
Thundering Hoofs (1942)
Night in New Orleans (1942)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Scattergood Rides High (1942)
Land of the Open Range (1942)
Valley of the Sun (1942)
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
Dude Cowboy (1941)
No Hands on the Clock (1941)
The Gay Falcon (1941)
The Bandit Trail (1941)
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
Redhead (1941)
A Man Betrayed (1941)
Along the Rio Grande (1941)
Play Girl (1941)
The Fargo Kid (1940)
Meet the Missus (1940)
Wagon Train (1940)
Triple Justice (1940)
Melody Ranch (1940)
Stage to Chino (1940)
Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
Prairie Law (1940)
Bullet Code (1940)
Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
Millionaire Playboy (1940)
Little Orvie (1940)
Legion of the Lawless (1940)
The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
In Old Monterey (1939)
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GenderMale
Birthday1906-02-03
Deathday1971-08-01 (65 years old)
Birth PlacePoland, Poland
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPaul Sawtelle
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