Murray Cutter

Personal Info

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Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-03-15 (81 years old)

Deathday

1983-04-19

Place of Birth

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Murray Cutter

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Murray Cutter (15 March 1902, Nice, France – 19 April 1983, Burbank, California) was a versatile Hollywood orchestrator, working mainly for film composer Max Steiner, with over 150 credits spanning the mid-thirties to early 1960s. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown except for the much-loved original arrangement of Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow, which continues to be sampled by modern filmmakers. Similar to fellow arranger Alexander Courage, Cutter's name has tended to be overshadowed by the popularity of the composers with whom he was most associated. Cutter was unusual among orchestrators wh...

Production

1950

Caged

as Orchestrator

1950

Rocky Mountain

as Orchestrator

1952

Mara Maru

as Orchestrator

1962

Rome Adventure

as Orchestrator

1947

Love and Learn

as Music Arranger

1961

Parrish

as Orchestrator

1965

Two on a Guillotine

as Orchestrator

1941

Come Live with Me

as Orchestrator

1959

The FBI Story

as Orchestrator

1951

1955

The Violent Men

as Orchestrator

1951

Raton Pass

as Orchestrator

1937

The Women Men Marry

as Orchestrator

1951

Sugarfoot

as Orchestrator

1954

The Caine Mutiny

as Orchestrator

1937

Double Wedding

as Orchestrator

1948

Key Largo

as Orchestrator

1949

White Heat

as Orchestrator

1950

1938

The Captain's Pup

as Orchestrator

1959

John Paul Jones

as Orchestrator

1957

Escapade in Japan

as Orchestrator

1961

A Majority of One

as Orchestrator

1959

The Hanging Tree

as Orchestrator

1948

Adventures of Don Juan

as Orchestrator

1951

Distant Drums

as Orchestrator

1948

Winter Meeting

as Orchestrator

1952

Room for One More

as Orchestrator

1947

Deep Valley

as Music Arranger

1940

Comrade X

as Orchestrator

1946

Three Strangers

as Orchestrator

1952

The Iron Mistress

as Orchestrator

1947

The Unfaithful

as Music Arranger

1945

Danger Signal

as Orchestrator

1944

1951

1946

Shadow of a Woman

as Orchestrator

1937

Conquest

as Orchestrator

1938

Mannequin

as Orchestrator

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Orchestrator

1937

Broadway Melody of 1938

as Music Arranger

1961

Susan Slade

as Orchestrator

1948

Silver River

as Orchestrator

1939

Babes in Arms

as Orchestrator

1939

The Wizard of Oz

as Music Arranger

1947

Pursued

as Orchestrator

1964

Youngblood Hawke

as Orchestrator

1939

The Oklahoma Kid

as Orchestrator

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