Fred Karlin
Fred Karlin; actually Frederick James Karlin ( born June 16, 1936 Chicago, Illinois, † March 26, 2004, Culver City, California ) was an American composer and author.
Life
Even as a teenager learned Karlin playing on the trumpet and studied jazz afterwards. After completion of Amherst College, he worked in New York as an arranger for Benny Goodman and also began to compose. In 1962 he met Meg Welles know, was the musical director of Meg Welles Quintet and eventually married her even. At Columbia Records, he took with her on three discs.
With his experience in classical, blues, rock, folk music and medieval music Karlin began his Hollywood career in 1967 with the film against the current up the stairs ( Up the Down Staircase ). Over the next three decades, he wrote the music for 30 films and over 100 television productions. Perhaps best known was his music for the science- thriller Westworld (1973 ) and its sequel Futureworld - The Land of Tomorrow ( Future Word, 1976). On television, his music stands for sci-fi series out The Man from Atlantis ( The Man from Atlantis, 1977) with Patrick Duffy.
1969 Karlin received his only Grammy nomination for the music for the film Pookie (The Sterile Cuckoo ). For his work Karlin received four Academy Award nominations, and the 1971 Oscar For even for the title of All We Know from the movie Lovers and Other Strangers ( Lovers and Other Strangers, 1970). In a cover version of the group The Carpenters The title became a top 10 hit. Three years later, Karlin also received an Emmy Award for his music for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and earned over the years 11 Emmy nominations. His last music Karlin wrote in 1997 for the TV movie The Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (Lost Treasure of Dos Santos, 1997).
Together with Rayburn Wright Karlin wrote to the Compendium On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring. His latest book, Great Film Scores, released in December 2003.
One of Karlins sons, Kristopher, was murdered in 1978 by his own sister Wendy Karlin. She was serving a relatively short sentence in a mental hospital. Karlin died of cancer.