Alexander Laszlo

Alexander Laszlo

Known for: Sound
Biography: 1895-11-22
Deathday: 1970-11-17 (74 years old)

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Biography

Alexander (Sándor) Lászlò (November 22, 1895 Budapest (Hungary) - November 17, 1970 Los Angeles, California) was a Hungarian-American pianist, musical composer, arranger and inventor. He was born Sándor ("San") Totis, but used the professional name of Alexander Lászlò as a composer and music publisher.

After training at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Lászlò studied piano with Szendy and composition with Herzfeld and started as a pianist at the Blüthner Orchestra in Berlin in 1915. As pianist Sándor Lászlò, in Freiburg, about 1920, he recorded 31 reproducing piano rolls for Welte Mignon, of the piano music of mostly 19th Century Classical composers.He gave piano recitals in Germany and Europe in the 1920s, and was a music director and professor of film music in Berlin.

According to the studies of the psychologist Georg Anschütz, the mentor of the synaesthesia research of this time, Lászlò developed an apparatus for the combination of colored light, slides, moving amorphous and geometrical forms. The first demonstration of it took place under the name "Sonchromatoskop" in 1924. Although this sonicism was developed by music, it should neither serve the intensification of the musical life, nor should individual keys be illustrated by clearly related colors. Rather, it was a new art genre in which abstract images and sound do not behave supplementarily, but enter into an original and inviolable unity. Lászlò built a professional Sonchromatoskop and it was controlled by the pianist. In 1925 Laszlo wrote a text called Color-Light-Music, and toured Europe with a color organ. Smith & Howe refer to him constructing a 'Fablichtklavier' (Color pianoforté) and publishing a book, 'Fablichtmusic', in 1925 which describes the genre.

He also participated in many Jewish lead charities.

In 1938 he came to the United States, starting in Chicago as music professor at the IIT Institute of Design. In the 1940s he was music director at NBC Radio.In Hollywood from about 1944, he wrote the music for several films such as One Body Too Many (1944), Charlie Chan and the Chinese Cat (1944), Scared Stiff (1945) and Yankee Kafir (1947). Also, The Great Flamarion (1945), The Amazing Mr. X (1949), Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1948), Night of the Blood Beast (1958), Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) and The Atomic Submarine (1959), and television series including Rocky Jones, Space Ranger and My Little Margie. He established a publishing company to collect ASCAP royalties under the name "Alexander Publications."

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Filmography

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Movies 44

TV Shows 1

Director 1

Composer
Aku-Aku

Aku-Aku (1960)

Movie
Composer
The Atomic Submarine

The Atomic Submarine (1959)

Movie
Composer
Beast from Haunted Cave

Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)

Movie
Composer
Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Movie
4
Composer
Forbidden Island

Forbidden Island (1959)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Last Clear Chance

Last Clear Chance (1959)

Movie
Composer
Submarine Seahawk

Submarine Seahawk (1958)

Movie
Composer
Night of the Blood Beast

Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Movie
Composer
Ghost of the China Sea

Ghost of the China Sea (1958)

Movie
Composer
The Narcotics Story

The Narcotics Story (1958)

Movie
Music
Fincho

Fincho (1957)

Movie
Composer
The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy

The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy (1955)

Movie
Composer
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake (1954)

Movie
Music Arranger
Biff Baker U.S.A.

Biff Baker U.S.A. (1952)

TV
Composer
Pal's Gallant Journey

Pal's Gallant Journey (1951)

Movie
Composer
Pal, Fugitive Dog

Pal, Fugitive Dog (1950)

Movie
Composer
Pal, Canine Detective

Pal, Canine Detective (1950)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Alimony

Alimony (1949)

Movie
Composer
Song of India

Song of India (1949)

Movie
Composer
Tarzan's Magic Fountain

Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)

Movie
Composer
Parole, Inc.

Parole, Inc. (1948)

Movie
6
Composer
The Amazing Mr. X

The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

Movie
Composer
Banjo

Banjo (1947)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Yankee Fakir

Yankee Fakir (1947)

Movie
Composer
Untamed Fury

Untamed Fury (1947)

Movie
Composer
Accomplice

Accomplice (1946)

Movie
Composer
Hot Cargo

Hot Cargo (1946)

Movie
Composer
Joe Palooka, Champ

Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)

Movie
Composer
The French Key

The French Key (1946)

Movie
Original Music Composer
They Made Me a Killer

They Made Me a Killer (1946)

Movie
Composer
The Glass Alibi

The Glass Alibi (1946)

Movie
Music Director
Strange Impersonation

Strange Impersonation (1946)

Movie
Composer
Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Movie
Composer
Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff (1945)

Movie
Composer
High Powered

High Powered (1945)

Movie
Original Music Composer
The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion (1945)

Movie
Composer
Dangerous Passage

Dangerous Passage (1944)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Double Exposure

Double Exposure (1944)

Movie
Composer
One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many (1944)

Movie
6
Composer
Black Magic

Black Magic (1944)

Movie
4
Composer
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)

Movie
3.14
Composer
Cafe Moscow

Cafe Moscow (1936)

Movie
Composer
Cobweb

Cobweb (1936)

Movie
Original Music Composer
Westfront 1918

Westfront 1918 (1930)

Movie
6
Composer
Narkose

Narkose (1929)

Movie

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Information

Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1895-11-22

Deathday
1970-11-17 (74 years old)

Birth Place
Budapest, Hungary

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Alex Laszlo, László Sándor, Sandor Totis


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