Earle Hagen

Earle Harry Hagen ( born July 9, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, † 26 May, 2008 Rancho Mirage, California ) was an Oscar -nominated American film composer.

Career

Born in Chicago, Hagen moved at a young age with his family to Los Angeles. After finishing high school he joined as a trombonist several big bands and played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Ray Noble. 1939, during his time at Noble he wrote his most famous piece, Harlem Nocturne.

Beginning of the 1940s, he signed a contract as a studio musician at CBS, but then moved to 20th Century Fox, where he worked as an arranger until the early 1950s. During this time he worked at Madame makes stories and blondes with preferred. In 1952, he left Fox and henceforth worked mainly as a television composer.

He was awarded the Emmy for the music for the TV series tennis, Spy (I Spy ) 1968. The peculiarity of this award-winning series was that each episode had its own theme music, the thematically corresponded to the scene. Until the mid- 1980s, Hagen continued to work successfully as a television composer and thereby also created music for the Mike Hammer series ( The Return Of Mickey Spillane 's Mike Hammer), the comedy show Make Room for Daddy and a whistled theme music for The Andy Griffith Show. That the series The New Perry Mason (1973 ) was a flop, but not because of the music of Hagen. 1974 and 1981, Hagen also contributed music to the TV remakes of the Planet of the Apes at.