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Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was an American orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including The Rifleman (starring Chuck Connors), Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. [1]
Herschel Burke Gilbert. Music Department: Carmen Jones. Composer, arranger and orchestrator of prolific output. Trained on violin and leader of his own dance band by the age of fifteen.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was a prolific orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including The Rifleman ...
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Herschel Burke Gilbert. Music Department: Carmen Jones. Composer, arranger and orchestrator of prolific output. Trained on violin and leader of his own dance band by the age of fifteen. Studied at the Juilliard Institute of Musical Art (1939-41), subsequently learned composition under the tutelage of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Lukas ...
Herschel Burke Gilbert, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated composer who wrote the memorable music for “The Rifleman” and a string of other TV shows, has died. He was 85. Gilbert, who later produced...
Jun 15, 2003 · Herschel Burke Gilbert, an Oscar-nominated film and TV composer best known for his themes for “The Rifleman” and “Burke’s Law,” died June 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications...
In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Hershel Burke Gilbert (1918-2003) talks about his early interest in music and his studies in college (including eventually studying conducting and composing at Julliard), and his part in a local dance band.