Alfred Newman (composer)
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music.
He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 43 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures.
Some of his most famous scores include "Wuthering HeightsThe Hunchback of Notre DameThe Mark of ZorroHow Green
Was My ValleyThe Song of BernadetteCaptain from CastileAll About EveLove is a Many Splendored ThingAnastasiaThe Diary of Anne FrankHow
The West
Was WonThe Greatest Story Ever Told", and his final score, "Airport", all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards.
He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions.
Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, and Irving Berlin.
He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals.
He was among the first musicians to compose and conduct original music during Hollywood's Golden Age of movies, later becoming a respected and powerful music director in the history of Hollywood.
Newman and two of his fellow composers, Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, were considered the "three godfathers of film music".
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.
Bert Grund
Bert Grund( 1920–1992) was a German composer of film scores.
Tarcisio Fusco
Tarcisio Fusco was an Italian composer of film scores.
He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle of operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.
Henri Verdun
Henri Verdun( 1895–1977) was a French composer of film scores.
Thomas Morse
Thomas Morse( born June 30, 1968) is an American composer of film and concert music.
André Hakim
André Nessim Hakim( December 5, 1915 in Alexandria, Egypt – October 19, 1980 in Los Angeles) was a film producer.
André and his brothers were in the film industry from the time they were teenagers.
His brothers Raymond and Robert Hakim worked at Paramount Pictures before founding their own production company in France.
André worked at 20th Century Fox and produced such films as" Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell"( 1951), the anthology film," O. Henry's Full House"( 1952) and" The Man Who Never Was"( 1956).
He was married to Susan Marie Zanuck, one of Darryl F. Zanuck's two daughters.
The couple divorced in 1967, after which Zanuck married Pierre- Francois Savineau.
O. Henry's Full House
O. Henry's Full House is a 1952 American anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five films, each based on a story by O. Henry.
The film was produced by André Hakim and directed by five directors from five screenplays with different authors.
The music score was composed by Alfred Newman.
The film is narrated by author John Steinbeck, who made his only on-camera appearance to introduce each story.
Howard Hawks
"The Ransom of Red Chief" was so poorly received that the studio removed it before the film opened widely.

Question: Where did the composer of film O. Henry'S Full House die?
Answer: Hollywood