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Leo Shuken is a Orchestrator and Additional Music American born on 8 december 1906

Leo Shuken

Leo Shuken
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 december 1906
Death 24 july 1976 (at 69 years)

Leo Shuken est un compositeur de musique de film, un arrangeur et un orchestrateur américain né le 8 décembre 1906 à Los Angeles (Californie) et mort le 24 juillet 1976 à Los Angeles.

Biography

Leo Shuken a travaillé sur plusieurs centaines de film, notamment comme orchestrateur ou arrangeur, souvent en collaboration avec Jack Hayes .

Best films

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
(Orchestrator)
How the West Was Won (1962)
(Orchestrator)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
(Orchestrator)
Hawaii (1966)
(Orchestrator)
Camelot (1967)
(Orchestrator)
Shane (1953)
(Orchestrator)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(52 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(42 films)
Victor Young
Victor Young
(33 films)
Farciot Edouart
Farciot Edouart
(27 films)
Gordon Jennings
Gordon Jennings
(18 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leo Shuken (104 films)

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Sound

The Magnificent Seven Ride!, 1h40
Directed by George McCowan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Luke Askew, Ralph Waite, Mariette Hartley
Roles Orchestrator
Rating55% 2.7994352.7994352.7994352.7994352.799435
In southern Arizona territory, former hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay from an ambush. After recovering from his long ride across the desert, Jim asks Chris to help him defend the small Mexican border town of Magdalena, which has come under constant attack by bandit De Toro and his men. Having recently married and assumed his job as marshal, however, Chris is reluctant to assist Jim, despite their long friendship.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1h50
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy
Roles Orchestrator
Rating79% 3.998093.998093.998093.998093.99809
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford). The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) as their new leader. Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces Harvey's idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven, 1h45
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Frank Silvera, George Rigaud
Roles Music Arranger
Rating56% 2.8448152.8448152.8448152.8448152.844815
Un jeune révolutionnaire mexicain va voir Chris : son chef Quintero a été fait prisonnier par les troupes du dictateur Porfirio Díaz. Il demande l'aide de Chris qui aussitôt se met en quête de six autres mercenaires …
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 1h45
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Lee Bergere, Michael Z. Gordon
Roles Orchestrator
Rating66% 3.3464253.3464253.3464253.3464253.346425
After a weekend of emotional honesty at an Esalen-style retreat, Los Angeles sophisticates Bob and Carol Sanders (played by Robert Culp and Natalie Wood) return to their life determined to embrace complete openness. They share their enthusiasm and excitement over their new-found philosophy with their more conservative friends Ted and Alice Henderson (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon), though their friends remain doubtful. Soon after, Bob, a filmmaker, has an affair with a young, blonde production assistant on a film shoot in San Francisco. He admits this to Carol after arriving home, describing the event as a purely physical act, not an emotional one. To Bob's surprise, Carol is completely accepting of this. Later, Carol gleefully reveals the affair to Ted and Alice as they are leaving a dinner party. Alice is particularly disturbed both by Bob's infidelity, as well as Carol's candor, becoming physically ill on the drive home. She and Ted have a hard time coping with the news in bed later that evening. However, as time passes, they grow to accept that Bob and Carol really are fine with the affair. Later, Ted admits to Bob that he was tempted to have an affair once, but never went through with it; Bob tells Ted he should, rationalizing: "You've got the guilt anyway. Don't waste it.
The Swimmer, 1h34
Directed by Sydney Pollack, Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Marge Champion, Kim Hunter, Bernie Hamilton, Charles Drake
Roles Orchestrator
Rating75% 3.79683.79683.79683.79683.7968
On a sunny day in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, a fit and tanned middle-aged man in a bathing suit, Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster), drops by a pool party being held by friends. They offer him a cocktail while nursing hangovers from the night before. As they share stories, Ned realizes that there is a series of swimming pools that form a "river" to his house, making it possible for him to "swim" his way home. Ned dives into the pool, emerging at the other end and beginning his journey. Ned's behavior perplexes his friends, who know things about his recent past he seems to have forgotten.
The Scalphunters, 1h42
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Dabney Coleman, Paul Picerni
Roles Orchestrator
Rating66% 3.345773.345773.345773.345773.34577
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an American fur trapper, is making his way back home with a full cargo of hides when he encounters a group of Kiowa Indians led by Two Crows (Armando Silvestre), who insist on taking his furs. As "payment" they offer him a slave, Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), who they had previously taken from a group of Comanches. Reluctantly, realising he cannot fight them, Bass agrees to the trade.
Wait Until Dark, 1h48
Directed by Terence Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, La cécité
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist II, Jack Weston, Robby Benson
Roles Orchestrator
Rating76% 3.8470053.8470053.8470053.8470053.847005
In a Montreal apartment, a woman named Lisa (Samantha Jones) waits for an old man to sew bags of heroin into the cloth body of an old-fashioned doll. As she leaves the apartment with the doll, we see the man watching her leave, then dialing someone on the phone. Lisa takes the doll with her on an airline flight to New York City, but when, on disembarking, she sees a man watching her, she becomes worried and gives the doll for safekeeping to a man she'd spoken with on the plane, professional photographer Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). The man who'd been watching Lisa then roughly escorts her away. Later, when Lisa calls Sam about the doll, Sam and his wife, Susy (Audrey Hepburn), who is blind from an auto accident, are unable to find it.
Camelot
Camelot (1967)
, 2h59
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films about royalty
Actors Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith
Roles Orchestrator
Rating65% 3.297793.297793.297793.297793.29779
In the opening scene, King Arthur (Richard Harris) is preparing for a great battle against his friend, Sir Lancelot (Franco Nero), a battle he does not wish to fight but has been forced into. Arthur reflects on the sad circumstances which have led him to this situation, and asks his childhood mentor, Merlyn, for advice. Merlyn appears to him and tells Arthur to think back.
Enter Laughing, 1h51
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about television, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors José Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford, Janet Margolin, Don Rickles
Roles Orchestrator
Rating62% 3.143343.143343.143343.143343.14334
David Kolowitz (Santoni) works as a delivery boy and assistant for a machine shop in New York City in 1938, and is fascinated with the movies.
In Cold Blood, 2h14
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, James Flavin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Roles Orchestrator
Rating78% 3.9467753.9467753.9467753.9467753.946775
November 1959. Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and "Dick" Hickock (Scott Wilson) concoct a plan to invade the home of the Clutter family, as Mr. Clutter supposedly keeps a large supply of cash on hand in a safe. While the two criminals feel their plan for the robbery is sound, it quickly unravels, resulting in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage children. The bodies are discovered the next day, and a police investigation is immediately launched. As the investigation builds, the two wanted men continue to elude law enforcement by heading south and crossing into Mexico; but, after a while, they return to the U.S. and decide to travel to Las Vegas to win some money at gambling. There, they are arrested for violating parole, being in possession of a stolen car, and passing bad checks.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Roles Orchestrator
Rating64% 3.2485353.2485353.2485353.2485353.248535
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
Cast a Giant Shadow, 2h26
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, James Donald, Frank Sinatra
Roles Orchestrator
Rating62% 3.149473.149473.149473.149473.14947
The film is a fictionalized account of the experiences of a real-life Jewish-American military officer, Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, who commanded units of the fledgling Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Baby, the Rain Must Fall, 1h40
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson, Ruth White
Roles Orchestrator
Rating62% 3.148353.148353.148353.148353.14835
Georgette Thomas and her six-year-old daughter Margaret Rose travel to a small southern Texas town to meet her irresponsible rockabilly singer/guitarist husband, Henry Thomas, when he is released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl.
The Reward
The Reward (1965)

Directed by Serge Bourguignon
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Max von Sydow, Efrem Zimbalist II, Nino Castelnuovo, Yvette Mimieux, Gilbert Roland, Emilio Fernández
Roles Orchestrator
Rating49% 2.4741252.4741252.4741252.4741252.474125
El Paso crop duster Scott Svenson accidentally flies his plane into a water tower across the Mexico border. By chance he spots a friend, Frank Bryant, in a car with a woman.
The Reward
The Reward (1965)
, 1h32
Directed by Serge Bourguignon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist II, Gilbert Roland, Emilio Fernández, Nino Castelnuovo
Roles Orchestrator
Rating49% 2.4741252.4741252.4741252.4741252.474125
Cinq hommes partent à cheval à la recherche d'un homme soupçonné d'un crime et dont la tête a été mise à prix. Une jeune femme l'accompagne dans sa fuite à travers le désert du Mexique.