Paul Misraki; Film Composer Created 160 Soundtracks

Paul Misraki, 90, a composer who created more than 160 soundtracks for motion pictures. Also known for influencing the growth of swing music in France, Misraki had screen credits for music stretching from “The Proud Ones” in 1953 through “Les Miserables” in 1995. He worked for RKO Pictures in Hollywood for a time, and composed for such filmmakers as Orson Welles, Jacques Becker, Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard. Born in Constantinople, now Istanbul in Turkey, Misraki spent most of his life in France. He moved to Buenos Aires during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. A child prodigy, he began playing piano at age 4 and composed his first piece at 7. In the 1930s, Misraki and musician Ray Ventura developed a brand of swing that became popular throughout France. On Thursday in Paris.

Dr. John Weir Perry; Psychiatrist Wrote Popular Books

Dr. John Weir Perry, 84, a Jungian psychiatrist who wrote popularly read books such as “The Far Side of Madness.” Born in Rhode Island and educated at Harvard, Perry served as a war surgeon in the Friends Ambulance Unit in China during World War II. He later studied with Dr. Carl Gustav Jung in Zurich and then set up his practice in Northern California. Perry taught at UC Berkeley and the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco and co-founded Diabasis, an alternative residential treatment facility for adults with early psychiatric episodes. An expert on schizophrenia, Perry illustrated complicated clinical disorders for mainstream readers in his books, including “Lord of the Four Quarters” and the newly published “Trials of the Visionary Mind.” Commenting on “The Far Side of Madness” in 1974, a Times book reviewer wrote: “This many-faceted book will appeal not only to those concerned with mental illness, but also to students of myth and ritual, mysticism and the philosophy of history.” On Thursday in Larkspur, Calif.