15 Facts About Craig Safan

Craig Safan was a piano virtuoso who had studied at the Cleveland Conservatory.

Craig Safan began picking out tunes when he was 5 or 6 years old.

At the age of 15, his family moved from Los Angeles to Beverly Hills, and Craig Safan began attending Beverly Hills High.

Craig Safan had begun writing his own songs at the age of 13, and continued writing throughout high school.

Craig Safan became interested in fine art and graphic design.

Craig Safan never considered a profession in music, and was being pushed by his parents to become a doctor or lawyer.

Craig Safan enrolled at Brandeis University in Boston and became a Fine Arts major, thinking he would become an architect.

Craig Safan took a class in orchestration from experimental composer, Alvin Lucier.

Craig Safan wrote songs with many other writers such as Amanda McBroom.

Craig Safan scored a number of independent action comedies like The Great Smokey Roadblock, Acapulco Gold, Corvette Summer, Roller Boogie and the like: fast-paced youth-oriented films with much rhythmic vibe.

Craig Safan has composed extensively for television, notably the hit sitcom Cheers, which won for him numerous ASCAP awards for his music.

Craig Safan scored occasional episodes of the TV anthology shows, Amazing Stories and the revived The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, Supercarrier, the National Geographic Channel special Secrets of the Titanic, and several fistfuls of made-for-TV movies in a number of genres, including Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the USS.

All of these varied experiences precluded Craig Safan's being typecast in any one type of film.

Craig Safan's style has often consisted of improvising as a form of composition that allowed him to quickly express himself to the visual story unfolding on the screen.

In recent years Craig Safan has returned to composing for theater, though he remains active in scoring for film and television.