Biography
Richard Allen Markowitz (September 3, 1926 in Santa Monica, California β December 6, 1994 in Santa Monica, California) was an American film and television composer. He was the father of singer Kate Markowitz. As a Santa Monica High School student, Markowitz led a big band called Dick Allen and the Teenagers under the name Dick Allen. Following his graduation
in 1943 he performed military service in World War II. After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger and Arnold Schoenberg. While in Paris he played in jazz clubs and met his wife Haru Yanai.Markowitz began film composing with the 1958 film Stakeout on Dope Street for director Irvin Kershner. He collaborated again with Kernsher on the films The Young Captives, (1959), Hoodlum Priest (1961), and Face in the Rain (1963). He collaborated with his wife on the score of the film Roadracers (1959) where Haru wrote lyrics to the songs. His other film scores included One Man's Way (1963), Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), Wild Seed (1965), Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966), The Shooting (1966), which starred Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson, Cry for Me, Billy (1972), and Circle of Power (1981).
In 1961 he composed the score for Bert I. Gordon's The Magic Sword and began his television career composing the theme song and background music to The Rebel where the theme song was sung by Johnny Cash.
He again scored a well known Western TV series when he replaced Dimitri Tiomkin in conducting the theme and background music to The Wild Wild West. Keeping with the Western genre he scored the television movie (Scalplock) that spawned the series The Iron Horse as well as providing music for a variety of American television series and made for TV movies such as Weekend of Terror (1970), The Hanged Man (1974), Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976) and Death Car on the Freeway (1979).
Filmography
all 42
Movies 40
TV Shows 2
A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Brainwash (1983)
The Neighborhood (1982)
Dynasty (1981)
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
The Boss' Son (1978)
Hunters of the Reef (1978)
No Prince for My Cinderella (1978)
Doctors' Private Lives (1978)
Standing Tall (1978)
Mayday at 40,000 Feet (1977)
Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976)
Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976)
Cop on the Beat (1975)
Panic on the 5:22 (1974)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)
The Hanged Man (1974)
Beg, Borrow...or Steal (1973)
The Stranger (1973)
Voyage of the Yes (1973)
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
Revenge Is My Destiny (1971)
Weekend of Terror (1970)
Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
The Shooting (1966)
Scalplock (1966)
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
Wild Seed (1965)
The Bus (1965)
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
One Man's Way (1964)
Cry of Battle (1963)
A Face in the Rain (1963)
The Magic Sword (1962)
The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
Operation Dames (1959)
Roadracers (1959)
The Young Captives (1959)
The Hot Angel (1958)
Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
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GenderMale
Birthday1926-09-03
Deathday1994-12-06 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceSanta Monica, United States of America
ChildrenKate Markowitz
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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