Albert Glasser
Composer
Born: January 25, 1916 (82 years old)
Died: May 4, 1998
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Glasser (January 25, 1916 – May 4, 1998) was a composer, conductor and arranger of film music, primarily in the realm of B-movies, during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He scored approximately 200 films during his career, many for American International Pictures and director Bert I. Gordon. For the US War Department, Glasser composed for Frank Capra's Special Services Unit and for Office of War Information radio shows for overseas broadcasts. For television, he composed the score for the early western The Cisco Kid. For radio, he composed scores for Hopalong Cassidy, Clyde Beatty, and Tarzan. Glasser joined ASCAP in 1950, and his popular song compositions include "Urubu", "The Cisco Kid", "Someday" and "I Remember Your Love".
Filmography (56)
- Dark Shadows (1944, ★ 9.2)
- Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors (1986, ★ 6.7)
- I Shot Jesse James (1949, ★ 6.3)
- Stairway to Light (1945, ★ 7.2)
- The Big Caper (1957, ★ 6.2)
- Tormented (1960, ★ 5)
- The Beat Generation (1959, ★ 5.2)
- Cop Hater (1958, ★ 5.9)
- Please Murder Me (1956, ★ 5.9)
- Four Boys and a Gun (1957, ★ 6.6)
- Bad Man of Deadwood (1941, ★ 5.3)
- Abilene Town (1946, ★ 5.3)
- When Hell Broke Loose (1958, ★ 5.5)
- The Hired Gun (1957, ★ 5.9)
- The Boss (1956, ★ 5.9)
- Bailout at 43,000 (1957, ★ 5.3)
- Attack of the Puppet People (1958, ★ 5.1)
- Inside the Mafia (1959, ★ 5.8)
- Klondike Kate (1943, ★ 5.5)
- The Bushwhackers (1951, ★ 5.9)
- The Boy and the Pirates (1960, ★ 5.7)
- Sure Cures (1946, ★ 5.7)
- High School Confidential! (1958, ★ 5.5)
- Phantoms, Inc. (1945, ★ 6.2)
- Behind Locked Doors (1948, ★ 6.3)
- The Mugger (1958, ★ 6.1)
- The Negro Soldier (1944, ★ 6.2)
- A Gun in His Hand (1945, ★ 6.1)
- The Neanderthal Man (1953, ★ 4.3)
- Earth vs. the Spider (1958, ★ 4.8)