| Birth: | Feb. 5, 1902
Warsaw | | Death: | Apr. 26, 1983
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles County
California, USA | 
Motion Picture Composer. A composer, arranger and conductor for films, from the mid-1930s through the late 1960s, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory of Music and in Berlin. In 1935, after moving to America, he began collaboration with Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn or Ned Washington, on songs for movies such as ‘A Night at the Opera’ (“Cosi Cosa”), “Mutiny on the Bounty’ (“Love Song of Tahiti”), ‘Escapade’ (“You're All I Need”), and ‘San Francisco’ (the title song sung by Jeanette McDonald,). During the 1940s, he composed scores for ‘Two Faced Woman’, ‘Keeper of the Flame’, ‘Gaslight’, ‘Without Love”, ‘Green Dolphin Street’ and others. He won an Academy Award for his score to ‘Lili”, which also contained the song “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo”, sung by Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer. His other movie music in the 1950s and 1960s included ‘The Red Badge of Courage’, ‘Them’, ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’, ‘The Swan’, ‘Auntie Mame’, ‘Butterfield 8’, ‘Lord Jim’, and ‘Tobruk”. His collaborators included Herbert Stothart, Bob Russell and classical composer Hector Villa-Lobos. (bio by: Christian)
Cause of death: Cancer
Search Amazon for Bronislaw Kaper | | | Burial:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Hall of David (New Beth Olam Mausoleum), Corridor T-1, Tier 15 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Dec 23, 1999
Find A Grave Memorial# 7917 |
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