George Duning

George Duning ( born February 25, 1908 in Richmond, Indiana, † February 27, 2000 in San Diego, California ) was an American film composer.

Life

George Duning was trained as a musician and composer in Cincinnati at the local conservatory. From the early 1920s he worked as a trumpet player and pianist for the Kay Kyser band. In 1942, he joined the United States Navy and served then as a conductor and arranger for the military radio. As the Kay Kyser band in 1944 appeared in the movie Carolina Moon, Dunings talent was discovered as a composer. He received in 1945 a contract with Columbia Pictures, where he became almost exclusively worked as a film composer.

Among his best known works include the two Glenn Ford Western Count to three and pray ( 3:10 to Yuma, 1957) and Cowboy (1958 ) and Fred Zinnemann's classic From Here to Eternity ( From Here to Eternity, 1953) and Richard Quine's My Bell Book and Candle (Bell, Book and Candle ). His collaboration with Nelson Riddle for the musical adaptation of the Broadway musical Pal Joey by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the eponymous film also attracted attention.

From the 1950s Duning composed music for productions of the American television, such as for the Starship Enterprise (Star Trek) in the years 1967 and 1968. Throughout his career, he was five times for an Oscar and two-time Golden nominated Globe Award for Best Original Score, but always came up empty.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

Nominated for Best Film Music:

Golden Globe

Nominated for Best Film Music: