Henryk Wars composed scores for 50 films during the interwar period in Poland and 60 more in the United States.
10 Facts About Henryk Wars
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Henryk Wars was born to a Jewish musical family in the Russian partition of Poland.
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Henryk Wars was a long-time music director for Syrena Rekord.
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Henryk Wars was hired as a pianist for the Morskie Oko theater and joined Henryk Gold's band.
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Henryk Wars composed his first film score for Na Sybir in 1930, after gaining fame as a conductor and performer at various Warsaw cabarets and theaters including Morskie Oko, Hollywood, and Wielka Rewia.
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Henryk Wars was taken prisoner of war by the German army but managed to escape from a stopped train.
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Henryk Wars organized the big band Tea-Jazz in Soviet-occupied Lwow in 1940.
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Henryk Wars's songs were sung by such well-known stars as Margaret Whiting, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Brenda Lee and Dinah Shore.
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Henryk Wars composed the score and the title song for the Flipper movie and television series, as well as Daktari.
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Henryk Wars composed score for the 1956 western film Gun the Man Down.