Frederick James Karlin was an American composer of more than 130 scores for feature films and television movies.
10 Facts About Fred Karlin
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Fred Karlin was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and medieval music.
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Fred Karlin studied jazz composition with William Russo and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, graduating with honors.
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Fred Karlin composed and arranged for various bands, including those of Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Chubby Jackson.
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In 1962, Fred Karlin scored a record album for Columbia of extracts from the comic strip Peanuts, performed by actress Kaye Ballard as Lucy and songwriter Arthur Siegel as Charlie Brown.
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Fred Karlin began his film career with Up the Down Staircase in 1967.
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Fred Karlin's compositions were nominated for the Emmy Award eleven times, and he won for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in 1974.
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Fred Karlin wrote three books about film composition, On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music, and 100 Great Film Scores, which was published posthumously in 2005.
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Fred Karlin wrote a reference book detailing and cataloguing the thousands of recordings the Edison Company distributed between 1914 and 1929.
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Fred Karlin died at age 67 of cancer in Culver City, California.