Ray Heindorf

Ray Heindorf

Known for: Sound
Biography: 1908-08-25
Deathday: 1980-02-03 (71 years old)

Biography

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Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.


Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez.


After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments.


He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score.


Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776.


Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category.


Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.

Filmography

all 99

Movies 98

Director 20

self 3

TV Shows 1

Music Supervisor / Conductor
1776

1776 (1972)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Finian's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow (1968)

Movie
Music Supervisor
Adam-12

Adam-12 (1968)

TV
7.5
Music Supervisor
Up Periscope

Up Periscope (1959)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Helen Morgan Story

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Movie
Original Music Composer / Music Director
Serenade

Serenade (1956)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Sincerely Yours

Sincerely Yours (1955)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Pete Kelly's Blues

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Young at Heart

Young at Heart (1954)

Movie
Movie Premiere Attendee (uncredited) / Original Music Composer / Music Director
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born (1954)

Movie
Music Director
Lucky Me

Lucky Me (1954)

Movie
Orchestra Leader at Kahn Benefit (uncredited) / Music Director
I'll See You in My Dreams

I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)

Movie
Music Director / Original Music Composer
The West Point Story

The West Point Story (1950)

Movie
Music Director
Backfire

Backfire (1950)

Movie
Ray Heindorf (uncredited) / Music / Original Music Composer
It's a Great Feeling

It's a Great Feeling (1949)

Movie
Orchestrator / Conductor
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Movie
Original Music Composer
April Showers

April Showers (1948)

Movie
Original Music Composer
My Wild Irish Rose

My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Movie
Orchestrator / Conductor
Wonder Man

Wonder Man (1945)

Movie
Music Arranger / Conductor
Up in Arms

Up in Arms (1944)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Movie
6
Original Music Composer
Gold Diggers in Paris

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Movie
Music Arranger
Colleen

Colleen (1936)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Dangerous

Dangerous (1935)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Murder in the Clouds

Murder in the Clouds (1934)

Movie
Original Music Composer
A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady (1934)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Desirable

Desirable (1934)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Big City Blues

Big City Blues (1932)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Crooner

Crooner (1932)

Movie

Information

Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1908-08-25

Deathday
1980-02-03 (71 years old)

Birth Name
Raymond John Heindorf

Birth Place
Rockland County, United States

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
Raymond John Heindorf

Awards
Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment, Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

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