Unique among the major Hollywood composers of the 1940s, most of whom were foreign born, Hugo Friedhofer was a California boy through and through. The son of a cello player, Friedhofer became a symphony cellist himself, after briefly pursuing painting as a vocation. He entered films in 1929 as orchestrator of such early-talkie Fox musicals as Sunny Side Up. His first credit as a full composer was for the 1937 Samuel Goldwyn production The Adventures of Marco Polo. Nominated for six Academy Awards during his five-decade movie career, Hugo Friedhofer took home the Oscar for his brilliant work on Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
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Private Parts
Composer (Music Score) |
1972 | |||
Von Richthofen and Brown
Composer (Music Score) |
1970 | |||
The Over-the-Hill Gang
Composer (Music Score) |
1969 | |||
The Secret Invasion
Composer (Music Score) |
1964 | |||
Beauty and the Beast
Composer (Music Score) |
1963 | |||
Geronimo
Composer (Music Score) |
1962 | |||
Homicidal
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
One-Eyed Jacks
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
Never So Few
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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The Blue Angel
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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This Earth Is Mine
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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Woman Obsessed
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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In Love and War
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
The Young Lions
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
An Affair to Remember
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
The Boy on a Dolphin
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
The Sun Also Rises
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
Between Heaven and Hell
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
The Harder They Fall
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
Seven Cities of Gold
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
Soldier of Fortune
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
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The Rains of Ranchipur
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
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Violent Saturday
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
White Feather
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
Vera Cruz
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1954 | |||
Hondo
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
The Man in the Attic
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
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Thunder in the East
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
Above and Beyond
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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Face to Face
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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Lydia Bailey
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
The Marrying Kind
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
Ace in the Hole
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
Cry Danger
Songwriter |
1951 | |||
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Queen for a Day
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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Broken Arrow
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Captain Carey, U.S.A
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Edge of Doom
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
No Man of Her Own
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
Three Came Home
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Try and Get Me
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Two Flags West
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Bride of Vengeance
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
A Song Is Born
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1948 | |||
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Adventures of Casanova
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
Enchantment
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
Joan of Arc
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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Sealed Verdict
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
Body and Soul
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
Escape Me Never
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
The Bishop's Wife
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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The Swordsman
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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Wild Harvest
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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Gilda
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
So Dark the Night
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
The Best Years of Our Lives
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
Along Came Jones
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
A Wing and a Prayer
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Home in Indiana
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
Lifeboat
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Roger Touhy, Gangster!
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
The Lodger
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
The Woman in the Window
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Chetniks - The Fighting Guerrillas
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
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Paris After Dark
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
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They Came to Blow up America
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
Casablanca
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
Desperate Journey
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1942 | |||
Santa Fe Trail
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1940 | |||
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1939 | |||
Crime School
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1938 | |||
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Racket Busters
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1938 | |||
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
Another Dawn
Musical Direction/Supervision |
1937 | |||
Topper
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
Captain Blood
Composer (Music Score) |
1935 | |||
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Dante's Inferno
Composer (Music Score) |
1935 | |||
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Now I'll Tell
Composer (Music Score) |
1934 | |||
The World Moves On
Composer (Music Score) |
1934 | |||
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The Face in the Sky
Composer (Music Score) |
1933 | |||
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Painted Woman
Composer (Music Score) |
1932 |
