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Biography. Early life and education. Postgraduate influences. Career. Personal life and death. Discography. Filmography. Film scores. Television. References. External links. Kenyon Hopkins (January 15, 1912 – April 7, 1983) was an American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom.
Music Department: 12 Angry Men. Kenyon Hopkins was born on 15 January 1912 in Coffeyville, Kansas, USA. He was a composer, known for 12 Angry Men (1957), The Hustler (1961) and East Side/West Side (1963). He died on 7 April 1983 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
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Kenyon Hopkins (1912–1983) may be relatively unknown today, but he was a major contributor to a highly regarded movement in Hollywood film scoring, one that paralleled the decline of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s and was anchored aesthetically with the film versions of Tennessee Williams’s plays—transforming the style of Hollywood sou...
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Kenyon Hopkins. (1912—1983) Quick Reference. B. 15 January 1912, Coffeyville, Kansas, USA, d. 7 April 1983, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. After studying composition and music theory at Oberlin College and Temple University, Hopkins began his ... From: Hopkins Kenyon in Encyclopedia of Popular Music » Subjects: Music. Reference entries.
Kenyon Hopkins. Born 15 January 1912. Died 7 April 1983, Princeton, New Jersey. A great and much underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits. Hopkins attended Oberlin College and Temple University, studying composition and music theory.
Composer/arranger Kenyon Hopkins was one of the busier figures in film and television music from the mid-'50s through the mid-'70s. Although best remembered for his work as music director for the television series The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch, he wrote some vital and important film scores and scored some very serious television programs.
Kenyon Hopkins. Highest Rated: 100% 12 Angry Men (1957) Lowest Rated: 53% The Fugitive Kind (1960) Birthday: Jan 15, 1912. Birthplace: Coffeyville, Kansas, USA. Kenyon Hopkins brought his...
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