1. William "Bill" Benjamin Lava was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as Warner Bros.
18 Facts About William Lava
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William Lava composed and sang the theme to the TV western series Cheyenne and composed one episode of the series Gunsmoke.
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William Lava studied conducting with Albert Coates in Los Angeles.
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William Lava wrote short stories for various magazines and was the editor of Northwestern Commerce Magazine and associate editor of Purple Parrot.
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William Lava was responsible for scores for the Warner Bros.
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In 1953, William Lava provided the music score for the Ed Wood film Glen or Glenda, although he would not receive onscreen credit.
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Franklyn had scored the first two minutes of the cartoon when he died suddenly of a heart attack; though William Lava completed the cartoon, Franklyn was credited with the entire score.
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Franklyn used strings and flutes in his portion, arranged similarly to his earlier cartoons, while William Lava's score sounds more mechanical and less orchestrated, with a xylophone at one point.
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William Lava's first credited cartoon is Good Noose, released in 1962.
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William Lava composed music for 19 of the 124 Pink Panther cartoons, always based on Henry Mancini's original theme, adapting it to closely follow character action.
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Walter Greene scored the nineteenth cartoon, Pink, Plunk, Plink, however William Lava scored the following one, Smile Pretty, Say Pink.
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William Lava co-authored the music for the movie PT-109, and composed music for The Battle of Britain and the documentary Hitler Lives.
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William Lava co-wrote the theme and most of the incidental music for the TV series F Troop.
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William Lava composed the silent-film music for the "bookend" sequences at the beginning and end of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "Once Upon a Time" - performed by pianist Ray Turner.
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William Lava was employed as Music Supervisor with David Rose in a couple of seasons of Bonanza.
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William Lava was the son of Abraham Lava and Rose Chernavsky.
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William Lava married Lenore Goldman on December 31,1932 in Chicago, Illinois.
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William Lava spoke in favor of direct military action against the Castro regime, continuing to protest in this manner from 1959 until his death.