Leo F. Forbstein
Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948), ce qui à l'American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period. Forbstein was born in St Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. - As-a-conductor at the Royal de Théâtre de Saint-Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action dans silent film; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre à Kansas City, where the organiste ce future Warner Bros collègue Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. He signed with Warner Bros as one of the administration of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Grain, en 1929. En 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director. En 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood. The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter. He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola en 1938. Forbstein ce qui married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack à Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (né en 1915), who married directeur adjoint Melvin Dellar. Leo Forbstein ce que entombed dans the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.
Films réalisés par Leo F. Forbstein (303)
Directeur De La Musique
