MOVIE MUSIC COMPOSER GERTZ DEAD AT 93
Legendary film and TV composer IRVING GERTZ has died at his home in West Hollywood. He was 93.
Gertz wrote music for over 200 films and TV episodes and is best known for music he created for cult science-fiction films such as It Came From Outer Space and The Incredible Shrinking Man and TV series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Peyton Place.
Born in Rhode Island, Gertz studied at the Providence College of Music and became a state classical composer of note before moving to Hollywood, where he landed a job at Columbia Pictures in the late 1930s.
He served as an artillery gunner and then as an officer in the Army Signal Corps before returning to Columbia after World War II.
He joined Universal International in the early 1950s and moved to 20th Century Fox, where he became the studio’s music director, a decade later.
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