Walter Scharf - Turner Classic Movies

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Died

February 24, 2003

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Biography

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Walter Scharf produced music for multiple Hollywood productions during the course of his Hollywood career. Scharf worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Atlantic City" (1944) starring Constance Moore. Scharf won a Best Original Song - Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for "Ben" in 1972. Scharf was nominated for a Music (Music Score of a Dramatic...

Filmography

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Hollywoodland (2006)

True Colors (1991)

Moonwalker (1989)

Twilight Time (1982)

Midnight Offerings (1981)

This Is Elvis (1981)

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Ben (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Ben's Song

Ben (1972) -- (TV Trailer)

Biography

Walter Scharf produced music for multiple Hollywood productions during the course of his Hollywood career. Scharf worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Atlantic City" (1944) starring Constance Moore. Scharf won a Best Original Song - Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for "Ben" in 1972. Scharf was nominated for a Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) Academy Award for "Mercy Island" in 1941 as well as for a Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Academy Award for "The Fighting Seabees" in 1944. In the fifties, Scharf devoted his time to various credits, such as "Artists and Models" (1955) starring Dean Martin, "You're Never Too Young" with Dean Martin (1955) and "The Birds and the Bees" with George Gobel (1956). He also worked on "Timetable" (1956). Scharf's music was also featured in the comedy "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" (1969) with Suzanne Pleshette. Scharf was most recently credited in "Method To The Madness of Jerry Lewis" (Starz, 2011-12). Soon after receiving his award, he went on to write songs which would be featured in "Ben" (1972). Scharf passed away in February 2003 at the age of 93.

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

Hollywoodland (2006)

True Colors (1991)

Moonwalker (1989)

Twilight Time (1982)

Midnight Offerings (1981)

This Is Elvis (1981)

The Long Days of Summer (1980)

The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)

Real American Hero (1978)

Real American Hero (1978)

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978)

Final Chapter--Walking Tall (1977)

Walking Tall (1973)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

Mr. Magoo's Holiday Festival (1970)

Music score & Conductor for "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol"

The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

Music & Musicic Director

Pendulum (1969)

Pendulum (1969)

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

Funny Girl (1968)

Music Supervisor & Conductor

Funny Girl (1968)

Harold Lloyd's Funny Side of Life (1966)

Harold Lloyd's Funny Side of Life (1966)

One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)

Music (see note)

Tickle Me (1965)

Honeymoon Hotel (1964)

Honeymoon Hotel (1964)

Music score & Conductor

Where Love Has Gone (1964)

Guns of Diablo (1964)

My Six Loves (1963)

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy (1962)

It's Only Money (1962)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Music scored & Conductor

The Ladies' Man (1961)

The Errand Boy (1961)

Music score & conducting

CinderFella (1960)

CinderFella (1960)

Music scored and Conductor

The Bellboy (1960)

Music scored and Conductor

Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

Music scored and Conductor

The Geisha Boy (1958)

King Creole (1958)

Music Adapted and scored by

Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Music Adapted and scored by

Loving You (1957)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

Three Violent People (1957)

Music scored and Conductor by

The Sad Sack (1957)

Music scored and Conductor

The Joker Is Wild (1957)

Music scored and Conductor

Timetable (1956)

Hollywood or Bust (1956)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

Artists and Models (1956)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

Timetable (1956)

Music comp and Director

Three for Jamie Dawn (1956)

The Birds and the Bees (1956)

Music score and Conductor

Bundle of Joy (1956)

Background score Adapted and Conductor

You're Never Too Young (1955)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

3 Ring Circus (1955)

The French Line (1954)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

Living It Up (1954)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

A Perilous Journey (1953)

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)

Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

South Sea Sinner (1950)

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

Deported (1950)

Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)

Abandoned (1949)

Take One False Step (1949)

Red Canyon (1949)

City Across the River (1949)

Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)

Mexican Hayride (1948)

The Far Frontier (1948)

Are You with It? (1948)

Music Arrangements and Director

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Music Arrangements and Director

Mexican Hayride (1948)

Music Arrangements and Conductor

The Saxon Charm (1948)

Murder in the Music Hall (1946)

I've Always Loved You (1946)

Mexicana (1945)

Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)

Mexicana (1945)

The Woman Who Came Back (1945)

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)

Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)

The Cheaters (1945)

The Fighting Seabees (1944)

Casanova in Burlesque (1944)

Man from Frisco (1944)

Atlantic City (1944)

Lake Placid Serenade (1944)

The Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

Hands Across the Border (1944)

The Lady and the Monster (1944)

False Faces (1943)

Someone to Remember (1943)

Sleepy Lagoon (1943)

Shantytown (1943)

In Old Oklahoma (1943)

Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)

Thumbs Up (1943)

Nobody's Darling (1943)

London Blackout Murders (1943)

Chatterbox (1943)

Ice-Capades Revue (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Flying Tigers (1942)

Ice-Capades Revue (1942)

Secrets of the Underground (1942)

Johnny Doughboy (1942)

Sis Hopkins (1941)

Puddin' Head (1941)

Rookies on Parade (1941)

Mercy Island (1941)

Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)

Orch Arrangements by

Cast (Special)

Alice Faye: The Star Next Door (1996)

The Republic Pictures Story (1991)

Music (TV Mini-Series)

From Here to Eternity (1979)

Blind Ambition (1979)

Life Events

Videos

Ben (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Ben's Song Certainly a SPOILER, and the element for-which this film, (Ben, 1972, sequel to Willard, 1971) is actually best known, Danny (Lee Harcourt Montgomery) finding his friend not-dead, and 13-year old Michael Jackson delivering his first solo #1 hit, by Walter Scharf and Don Black.

Tickle Me (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Put The Blame On Me Fitness-camp employees Pam (Jocelyn Lane) and Lonnie (Elvis Presley) searching an old Western saloon, imagining an old-time musical number, song by Kay Twomey, Fred Wise and Norman Blagman, Edward Faulkner and Jack Mullaney their pals appearing in the fantasy, in Tickle Me, 1965.

Cheyenne Social Club, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) This Weren't Part Of It Opening scenes, denoted as Texas, 1867, old friends James Stewart and Henry Fonda as aging cowhands, leading into probably the only title sequence with a song performed by Fonda, in The Cheyenne Social Club, 1970, co-starring Shirley Jones, directed by Gene Kelly.

Ben (1972) -- (TV Trailer) Following the surprise box office success of the rat-thriller Willard, in 1971, this was the TV trailer for the quickly produced sequel, in which the title character was not a human, but a rat, in Ben, 1972, starring Lee Harcourt Montgomery, Meredith Baxter and Joseph Campanella.

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