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Hans Sommer is a Original Music Composer and Additional Music Allemand born on 22 may 1904

Hans Sommer

Hans Sommer
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Nationality German
Birth 22 may 1904
Death 1 october 2000 (at 96 years)

Hans Sommer, né le 22 mai 1904 à Berlin (alors Empire allemand) et mort le 22 octobre 2000 à Los Angeles (quartier de Pacific Palisades, Californie), est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre américain d'origine allemande.

Biography

Hans Sommer étudie notamment à l'Académie de musique de Berlin puis, par l'entremise de Max Reinhardt, entame sa carrière de compositeur et chef d'orchestre au théâtre en 1928, au Großes Schauspielhaus de Berlin.

Au début des années 1930, il intègre l'industrie du cinéma et contribue à des films allemands (le premier étant un court métrage sorti en 1932), ainsi qu'à des films français ou en coproduction.

De cette période européenne, mentionnons C'était un musicien de Maurice Gleize et Friedrich Zelnik (1934), Michel Strogoff de Jacques de Baroncelli et Richard Eichberg (1936), ou encore On a tué Sherlock Holmes de Karl Hartl (1937).

Son épouse étant de confession juive, le couple décide de fuir le nazisme et émigre en 1939 aux États-Unis, où il s'installe définitivement. Durant cette seconde période, Hans Sommer contribue donc à quelques films américains, le dernier comme compositeur étant La Première Légion de Douglas Sirk (1951).

Best films

Rebecca (1940)
(Music)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Hans Sommer (7 films)

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Sound

The Naked Spur, 1h31
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell
Roles Conductor
Rating72% 3.6460953.6460953.6460953.6460953.646095
In March 1868, Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is tracking Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan), who is wanted for the murder of the marshal in Abilene, Kansas.
The First Legion, 1h26
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Charles Boyer, William Demarest, Lyle Bettger, Walter Hampden, Barbara Rush, Wesley Addy
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64% 3.2374453.2374453.2374453.2374453.237445
This script must be run from the command line
The Mysterious Doctor, 57minutes
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews, Forrester Harvey, Phyllis Barry
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57% 2.853572.853572.853572.853572.85357
Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Roles Music
Rating80% 4.0487054.0487054.0487054.0487054.048705
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, 1h52
Directed by Eduard von Borsody, Karl Hartl
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius, Hansi Knoteck, Angelo Ferrari, Günther Ballier
Roles Music
Rating69% 3.4950653.4950653.4950653.4950653.495065
Detective Morris Flynn (Hans Albers) and his assistant Macky McMacpherson (Heinz Rühmann), masquereading as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, investigate two attractive sisters, Mary and Jane Berry, and the theft and forgery of valuable postage stamps.
The Model Husband, 1h35
Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Hans Söhnker, Heli Finkenzeller, Werner Fuetterer, Leopold von Ledebur
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61% 3.0935953.0935953.0935953.0935953.093595
A London banker makes a business trip to Venice where he falls in love with a woman who thinks her friend is cheating. They marry, but she soon gets bored because he's the "model husband" - the way she wished previously: he barely looks at other women - in turn no woman shows interest in him -- moral of the story: she said she wished for the model husband but unconsciously desires a Don Juan. Once he understands, he acts like one (a little) and she falls in love again.

Team

Rebecca
Rebecca (1940)
, 2h10
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement
Actors Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper
Roles Additional Music
Rating80% 4.0487054.0487054.0487054.0487054.048705
A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine), whose name is never mentioned, is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.