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Mack David, a talented musician, produced music for many Hollywood productions. He followed this honor with songs in "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) with Edmund Gwenn, the comedy adaptation "The Birds and the Bees" (1956) with George Gobel and "The Mountain" (1956) with Spencer Tracy. He also appeared in the Charlton Heston western "Three Violent People" (1957) and the Cornel Wilde a...

Filmography

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Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (2018)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Cinderella (2015)

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

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How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life -- (Movie Clip) Open, Winds of Change

Blob, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Beware Of The Blob

Biography

Mack David, a talented musician, produced music for many Hollywood productions. He followed this honor with songs in "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) with Edmund Gwenn, the comedy adaptation "The Birds and the Bees" (1956) with George Gobel and "The Mountain" (1956) with Spencer Tracy. He also appeared in the Charlton Heston western "Three Violent People" (1957) and the Cornel Wilde adventure "Omar Khayyam" (1957). He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Cinderella" in 1950. . David was nominated for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "The Hanging Tree" in 1959 as well as for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" in 1964. David was nominated for an Academy Award for "Bachelor in Paradise" in 1961. He followed this honor with songs in the dramatic adaptation "Walk on the Wild Side" (1962) with Laurence Harvey, the Robert Mitchum dramatic adaptation "Rampage" (1963) and the comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) with Spencer Tracy. David's music was also featured in the Peter Falk comedy "Cookie" (1989), "He Said, She Said" (1991) and the Warren Beatty dramatic biopic "Bugsy" (1991). His music was also featured in the action film "Natural Born Killers" (1994) with Woody Harrelson and "Larger Than Life" (1996). David's music was most recently used in the dramatic period piece "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013) with Emma Thompson. David passed away in December 1993 at the age of 81.

Filmography

Music (Feature Film)

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (2018)

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Cinderella (2015)

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

One for the Money (2012)

Monte Carlo (2011)

Jumping the Broom (2011)

Date Night (2010)

Flash of Genius (2008)

Rocket Science (2007)

Grindhouse (2007)

Lord of War (2005)

Romance and Cigarettes (2005)

Anger Management (2003)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Hart's War (2002)

Summer of Sam (1999)

Larger Than Life (1996)

Song ("Just A Lucky So & So")

Natural Born Killers (1994)

He Said, She Said (1991)

Stealing Home (1988)

Song ("Baby, It'S You")

Bull Durham (1988)

Song ("La Vie En Rose")

The Color of Money (1986)

Burning Rage (1984)

Deal Of The Century (1983)

Song ("Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White")

Bunny O'Hare (1971)

Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)

Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)

Pendulum (1969)

The Wrecking Crew (1969)

How To Save a Marriage--And Ruin Your Life (1968)

The Way West (1967)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Love Has Many Faces (1965)

Cat Ballou (1965)

For Those Who Think Young (1964)

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Ring-a-Ding Rhythm (1962)

Taras Bulba (1962)

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

Follow That Dream (1962)

Bachelor in Paradise (1961)

Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Guns of the Timberland (1960)

Verboten! (1959)

The Hanging Tree (1959)

St. Louis Blues (1958)

Spanish Affair (1958)

The Blob (1958)

Omar Khayyam (1957)

Three Violent People (1957)

Joe Dakota (1957)

The Birds and the Bees (1956)

The Mountain (1956)

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Fireman Save My Child (1954)

The Stooge (1953)

Scared Stiff (1953)

Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)

Sailor Beware (1952)

Jumping Jacks (1952)

Glory Alley (1952)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

At War with the Army (1951)

Cinderella (1950)

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Whiplash (1948)

Sarge Goes to College (1947)

Swing in the Saddle (1944)

Song of Nevada (1944)

Stars on Parade (1944)

Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944)

Pot O' Gold (1941)

Music (Short)

Main Street Follies (1935)

The Love Department (1935)

Life Events

Videos

How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life -- (Movie Clip) Open, Winds of Change How 60's can you get? Ambience from the Ray Conniff Singers with Michel Legrand and Mack David's "Winds of Change," the opening to How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life, 1968, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens.

Blob, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Beware Of The Blob The title song a landmark on its own, tacked on by Paramount studios which bought and distributed the movie, with delightful graphics and the tune by then-unknown Burt Bacharach and Mack (brother of Hal) David, from The Blob, 1958, starring Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut.

Scared Stiff (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Debonair Slob Jerry Lewis is bumbling fill-in waiter Myron, not formally part of the act Larry (Dean Martin) is performing, and we’ll later learn their old pals, showgirl Rosie (Dorothy Malone) included in the schtick for the customers, early in the 1953 horror-comedy vehicle Scared Stiff.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song It’s not always remembered that there’s a title song, by Ernest Gold and Mack David, presented here as the Overture, before the credits and everything, sung by an uncredited chorus, from the Stanley Kramer all-star mega-comedy It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963.

Glory Alley (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song New Orleans boxer Socks (Ralph Meeker) is leaving to fight in Korea, so this sendoff with pals (John McIntire, Gilbert Roland et al) features a song from his trainer Shadow (Louis Armstrong), also the world’s greatest trumpeter, an original by Mack David and Jay Livingston, in Glory Alley, 1952.

Cat Ballou (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Ballad of Cat Ballou Nat Cole and Stubby Kaye perform the Academy Award-nominated "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" by Mack David and Jerry Livingston in the opening sequence from Cat Ballou, 1965.

Follow That Dream (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Not The Marrying Kind In their first squat in the Florida Keys, Toby (Elvis Presley) and his informally adopted younger non-sister Holly (Anne Helm) discussing marriage, tune by Sherman Edwards and Mack David, in Follow That Dream, 1962.

At War With The Army -- (Movie Clip) Tonda Wonda Hoy Just a piece of a tune by Private Korwin (Jerry Lewis) before his slicker songwriting partner Sergeant Puccinelli (Dean Martin) steps in with Tonda Wonda Hoy, by Mack David and Jerry Livingston, in At War With The Army, 1951.

At War With The Army -- (Movie Clip) Beans An opening number by Mack David and Jerry Livingston, Beans, for Korwin (Jerry Lewis), who then gets chewed out by Puccinelli (Dean Martin), in the third Martin & Lewis feature, At War With The Army, 1951.

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