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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Lynn Milgrim to Rob Morrow
John Morris Biography (1926-)
Addresses: Agent: Sam Schwartz of Gorfaine/Schwartz, Los Angeles, CA.
"After attending the Juilliard School as a scholarship piano major under theaegis of Alfred Mirovitch, the first part of Mr. Morris's career led himto Broadway where he began as assistant to Lehman Engel."
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- composer
Famous Works
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Principal Stage Work, Original Music For Plays
- New York Shakespeare Festival productions: Peer Gynt, Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Electra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV, Pt. I, Henry IV Pt. II, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (two productions), The Cherry Orchard; American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT: The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure forMeasure, Twelfth Night; My Mother, My Father and Me, NY; Camino Real, Acting Company, NY; musical with Gerald Freedman, A Time for Singing, NY;Take One Step and Young Andy Jackson, NY (children's musicals).
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Principal Film Work
- Original Music--The Producers; The Twelve Chairs; The Gamblers; Blazing Saddles; The Bank Shot; Young Frankenstein; Sherlock Holmes' Younger Brother; Silent Movie; The Last Remake of Beau Geste; The In-Laws; The World's Greatest Lover; In God We Trust; High Anxiety; The Elephant Man; Historyof the World, Part One; Yellowbeard; To Be or Not to Be; Johnny Dangerously;The First One In.
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Principal Dance And Ballet Music
- Broadway Productions--Mack and Mabel; Nash at Nine; Much Ado about Nothing; Look to the Lillies; Dear World; Baker Street; All-American; Kwamina; Wildcat; Bye, Bye Birdie; Bells Are Ringing; Pipe Dreams; Peter Pan; Hair; TapDance Kid.
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Principal Television Work
- Original Music--Splendor in the Grass; The Electric Grandmother; The Scarlet Letter; The Adams Chronicles; Georgia O'Keefe; The Franken Project; The Firm; The Tap Dance Kid; Make Believe Marriage; After School Special Time; French Chef Theme for Julia Child's show; Making Things Grow theme; The Desperate Hours; The Skirts of Happy Chance; Infancy and Childhood; Musical Specials--Anne Bancroft Specials 1 and 2; 'S Lemmon, S' Gershwin, S' Wonderful; The Music World of Harold Arlen;The Music of Cole Porter; The Littlest Angel; Hallmark Christmas Specials; The Canterville Ghost.
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