Tag: Jazz

Dave Grusin

(1934) Robert David Grusin Works: • Love Theme from Heaven Can Wait (1978) Filmography as Composer: The Graduate 1967 Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman     Murder by Death 1976 Director: Robert Moore Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote     Heaven Can Wait…

Dudley Moore

(1935–2002) Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE Works: • Bedazzled (1968) Filmography as Actor: Foul Play 1978 Director: Colin Higgins Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase   Born April 19 1935 London (England) Died March 27 2002 Plainfield, NJ (USA) Cause of death Pneumonia Occupation Actor…

Bing Crosby

(1903–1977) Harry Lillis Crosby Jr. Filmography as Actor: High Society 1956 Director: Charles Walters Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly   Born May 2 1903 Tacoma, WA (USA) Died October 14 1977 Madrid (España) Cause of death Heart Failure Occupation Actor Singer Awards Academy Award…

Louis Armstrong

(1901–1971) Louis Daniel Armstrong Works: • Basin Street Blues • Black and Blue (1965) • Hello Dolly • West End Blues • What a wonderful world (1967) • When the saints go marching In Filmography as Actor: High Society 1956…

George Gershwin

(1898–1937) Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz Works: • An American in Paris (1928) • Concerto in F (1925) • Girl Crazy (1930) • Porgy and Bess (1935) • Rhapsody in Blue (1924) Filmography as Composer: Funny Face 1957 Director: Stanley Donen Starring:…

Cybill Shepherd

(1950) Cybill Lynne Shepherd Filmography as Actress: Taxi Driver 1976 Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster     Alice 1990 Director: Woody Allen Starring: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna   Born February 18 1950 Memphis, TN (USA) Occupation Actress Model Occupation Singer Writer Award…

Morgana King

(1930–2018) Maria Grazia Morgana Messina Filmography as Actress: The Godfather 1972 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino     The Godfather: Part II 1974 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall   Born June 4…

Alex North

(1910–1991) Isadore Soifer Works: • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) • Cleopatra (1963) • Désirée (1954) • Spartacus (1960) • The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) • Unchained Melody (1955) Filmography as Composer: A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Director: Elia…