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Leonard Rosenman
Geboortedag: 07/09/1924
Nationaliteit: American
Verblijfplaats: United States of America
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Recente films: Rebel, Si je t'attrape..., Jurij, Levitation, Charlton Heston Presents the Bible, Mrs. Munck, The Face on the Milk Carton, The Color of Evening, Amazing Stories: Book Three, Ambition, Keeper of the City, Aftermath: A Test of Love, RoboCop 2, Where Pigeons Go to Die, Body Wars, ...
Biografie (Biografie enkel beschikbaar in het Engels) (updated 2009-04-28)
Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the Army Air Forces in World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola.
Rosenman composed the scores for such films as East of Eden (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The Lord of the Rings (1978), Cross Creek (1983) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). He wrote incidental music for such television series as The Defenders, The Twilight Zone, Gibbsville and Marcus Welby M.D. He also wrote the theme and almost all of the incidental music used for the entire run of the 1960s World War II television series Combat!.
In his 70s Rosenman was diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain condition with symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease.
He died March 4, 2008, of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
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