Arnold Schwarzwald

Born - Jan 10, 1918   |   Died - Mar 15, 1997   |  

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Chicago-born Arnold Schwarzwald studied music with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (composition) and Lawrence Bernhardt (piano). After graduating from U.C.L.A. with a Psychology degree, he moved to New York, where he began composing. He joined Republic Pictures as a staff composer in the early '40s, working on such serials as Spy Smasher, and his music was tracked into the studio's productions well into the end of the decade. Most of his career from the late '50s was spent at Universal, where he served as music editor on the feature films Spartacus, The Thrill of it All!, Sweet Charity, and Airport, as well as such television series as Quincy, M.E. He later worked on the series Magnum, P.I. and Simon & Simon, and the 1983 Joseph Sargent made-for-TV chiller Nightmares. Schwarzwald died in 1997 at the age of 79.