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Richard Allen Markowitz (born September 3, 1926 in Santa Monica, California, died December 6, 1994 in Santa Monica, California, USA) was an American film and television composer. He was the father of Kate Markowitz. ==Biography== As a Santa Monica High School student, Markowitz led a big band called Dick Allen and the Teenagers under the name Dick Allen. Following his graduation in 1943 he performed military service in World War II. After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger and Arnold Schoenberg.〔http://www.daystar-productions.eu/shows/w3/tnot_composers.html〕 Whilst in Paris he played in jazz clubs and met his wife Haru Yanai.〔p. 44 Bessman, Jim ''Markowitz Maps Solo Career with Dad as Inspiration'' ''Billboard'' 27 March 2004〕 Markowitz began film composing with the 1958 film ''Stakeout on Dope Street'' for director Irvin Kershner. He collaborated again with Kernsher on the films ''The Young Captives'', (1959), ''Hoodlum Priest'' (1961), and ''Face in the Rain'' (1963). He collaborated with his wife on the score of the film ''Roadracers'' (1959) where Haru wrote lyrics to the songs. His other film scores included ''One Man's Way'' (1963), ''Bus Riley's Back in Town'' (1965), ''Wild Seed'' (1965), and the western films ''Ride Beyond Vengeance'' (1966) and ''The Shooting'' (1966), which starred Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson. In 1961 he composed the score for Bert I. Gordon's ''The Magic Sword'' and began his television career composing the theme song and background music to ''The Rebel'' where the theme song was sung by Johnny Cash. He again scored a well known Western TV series when he replaced Dimitri Tiomkin in conducting the theme and background music to ''The Wild Wild West''. Keeping with the Western genre he scored the television movie (Scalplock) that spawned the series ''The Iron Horse'' as well as providing music for a variety of American television series and made for TV movies such as ''Weekend of Terror'' (1970), ''Brinks: The Great Robbery'' (1976), ''Mayday at 40,000 Feet!'' (1976) and ''Death Car on the Freeway'' (1979). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Markowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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