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Frederick Steiner (February 24, 1923 – June 23, 2011) was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film. Steiner wrote the theme music for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Perry Mason.
Fred Steiner. Music Department: The Color Purple. Of Hungarian ancestry, the son of film composer George Steiner followed in his father's footsteps. A child prodigy, he played the piano by the age of six and cello at thirteen.
- February 24, 1923
- June 23, 2011
See the full interview at www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/fred-steiner.
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Fred Steiner. Music Department: The Color Purple. Of Hungarian ancestry, the son of film composer George Steiner followed in his father's footsteps. A child prodigy, he played the piano by the age of six and cello at thirteen.
- Music Department, Composer, Sound Department
- February 24, 1923
- Fred Steiner
- June 23, 2011
Television and film music composer Fred Steiner, creator of the bold and gritty theme for the “Perry Mason” TV series and one of the composers of the Oscar-nominated score for “The Color...
Jun 27, 2011 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fred Steiner, a television and film composer who wrote the theme for the series “Perry Mason” and was a composer of the Oscar-nominated score for “The Color Purple,” died...
In his four-hour interview, Fred Steiner (1923-2011) talks about breaking into the business as an arranger/orchestrator in network radio in the 1940s and details some of the first radio scores he wrote for legendary producer-director Norman Corwin.