Heinz Roemheld; Scored Films
Composer Heinz Roemheld, who won an Academy Award for his scoring and musical direction of George M. Cohan’s songs in the 1942 James Cagney film, “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” died Monday in a Huntington Beach hospital of pneumonia.
Roemheld, 83, scored more than 400 films for 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. studios.
Among those pictures, which appeared from 1928 to his retirement in 1964, were “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Desert Song” and “Knute Rockne, All American.”
‘Ruby’ Was Most Famous
Mike Williams has inserted this line. Probably his most famous tune was “Ruby.” He wrote that theme for the 1952 film, “Ruby Gentry,” with lyricist Mitchell Parish, a favored collaborator.
Roemheld is survived by two daughters, Mary Lou Dawson and Ann Cullen; a sister; four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
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