Leo F. Forbstein
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 16, 1892
Day of Death: February 12, 1948 (55 years old)
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period. Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. As a conductor at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action in silent films; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where the organist was future Warner Bros. colleague Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. He signed with Warner Bros. as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Squall in 1929. In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director. In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood. The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter. He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola in 1938. Forbstein was married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (born 1915), who married assistant director Melvin Dellar. Leo Forbstein was entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.
1948
1947
Music Director
Humoresque
Music Director
Possessed
Music Director
Love and Learn
Music Director
Cry Wolf
Music Director
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Music Director
Dark Passage
Music Director
Stallion Road
Music Director
The Unsuspected
Music Director
Escape Me Never
Music
The Beast with Five Fingers
Music Director
Deep Valley
Music Director
The Unfaithful
Music Director
Nora Prentiss
1946
1945
1944
1943
1942
1941
Music Director
The Sea Wolf
Music Director
Dive Bomber
Music Director
Kisses for Breakfast
Music Director
The Strawberry Blonde
Music Director
The Great Lie
Music Director
The Maltese Falcon
Music Director
Manpower
Music Director
Meet John Doe
Music Director
Underground
Music Director
Sergeant York
Music Director
Honeymoon for Three
Music Director
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Music Director
Steel Against the Sky
Music Director
The Great Mr. Nobody
Music Director
Four Mothers
Music Director
Flight from Destiny
Music Director
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Music Director
The Wagons Roll at Night
Music Director
Footsteps in the Dark
Music Director
Affectionately Yours
1940
1939
Music Director
Indianapolis Speedway
Music Director
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Music Director
Dodge City
Music Director
Angels Wash Their Faces
Music Director
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Music Director
Dark Victory
Music Director
Espionage Agent
Music Director
Women in the Wind
Music Director
King of the Underworld
Music Director
Off the Record
Music Director
Wings of the Navy
Music Director
Four Wives
Music Director
The Old Maid
Music Director
Dust Be My Destiny
Music Director
Daughters Courageous
Music Director
Juarez
Music Director
Invisible Stripes
Music Director
Each Dawn I Die
1938
Music Director
A Slight Case of Murder
Music Director
The Sisters
Music Director
My Bill
Music Director
Heart of the North
Music Director
Going Places
Music Director
Racket Busters
Music Director
Secrets of an Actress
Music Director
Comet Over Broadway
Music Director
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Music Director
Men Are Such Fools
Music Director
Hollywood Hotel
Music Director
The Dawn Patrol
Music Director
Torchy Gets Her Man
Music Director
Angels with Dirty Faces
Music Director
Four's a Crowd
Music Director
Jezebel
Music Director
Crime School
Music Director
Valley of the Giants
Music Director
Four Daughters
1937
Music Director
The Great Garrick
Music Director
The Life of Emile Zola
Music Director
Green Light
Music Director
The Prince and the Pauper
Music Director
Another Dawn
Music Director
Confession
Music Director
God's Country and the Woman
Music Director
Back in Circulation
Music Director
It's Love I'm After
Music Director
Stolen Holiday
Music Director
First Lady
Music Director
Call It a Day
Music Director
Ready, Willing and Able
Music Director
The Go-Getter
Music Director
Tovarich
Music Director
Marked Woman
Music Director
Ever Since Eve
1936
Music Director
Sing Me a Love Song
Music Director
Give Me Your Heart
Music Director
Freshman Love
Music Director
Gold Diggers of 1937
Original Music Composer
Earthworm Tractors
Music Director
Road Gang
Music Director
Stage Struck
Music Director
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Music Director
The White Angel
Music Director
The Petrified Forest
Music Director
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Conductor
Colleen
Music Director
King of the Islands
Music Director
Satan Met a Lady
Music Director
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Conductor
The Singing Kid
Conductor
Snowed Under
1935
Actor Rehearsal Orchestra Leader
Broadway Gondolier
Music Director
Frisco Kid
Music Director
A Night at the Ritz
Music Director
Traveling Saleslady
Conductor
While the Patient Slept
Music Director
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Music Director
Stranded
Music Director
I Found Stella Parish
Music Director
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Music Director
Going Highbrow
Music Director
We're in the Money
Conductor
Living on Velvet
Music Director
Keystone Hotel
Music Director
Miss Pacific Fleet
Music Director
Don't Bet on Blondes
Music Director
The Irish in Us
Music Director
Alibi Ike
Music Director
'G' Men
Music Director
The Florentine Dagger
Music Director
Shipmates Forever
Conductor
Sweet Music
Music Director
The Case of the Curious Bride
Music Director
Broadway Gondolier
Music Director
Go Into Your Dance
Music Director
The Goose and the Gander
Conductor
Maybe It's Love
1934
Conductor
The Dragon Murder Case
Conductor
Mandalay
Conductor
Here Comes the Navy
Conductor
Massacre
Conductor
The Case of the Howling Dog
Conductor
Gambling Lady
Conductor
Babbitt
Conductor
Journal of a Crime
Conductor
Midnight Alibi
Conductor
British Agent
Conductor
Dr. Monica
Music
The Firebird
Music Director
The Man with Two Faces
Conductor
Fashions of 1934
Conductor
Big Hearted Herbert
Conductor
He Was Her Man
Conductor
Happiness Ahead
Conductor
Murder in the Clouds
Conductor
Upperworld
Conductor
Housewife
Conductor
The Secret Bride
Conductor
Kansas City Princess
Conductor
Dames
Conductor
Fog Over Frisco
1933
Conductor
She Had to Say Yes
Conductor
Employees' Entrance
Conductor
Private Detective 62
Conductor
Baby Face
Conductor
The House on 56th Street
Conductor
I Loved a Woman
Music
The Man from Monterey
Conductor
Blondie Johnson
Conductor
The King's Vacation
Conductor
The Silk Express
Conductor
The Mind Reader
Conductor
Gold Diggers of 1933
Conductor
Goodbye Again
Conductor
The Narrow Corner
Conductor
The Kennel Murder Case
Conductor
College Coach
Conductor
Lilly Turner
Conductor
Girl Missing
Conductor
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Conductor
Footlight Parade
Conductor
42nd Street
Conductor
Ladies They Talk About
1932
Conductor
Jewel Robbery
Conductor
Street of Women
Orchestrator
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Original Music Composer
The Man Who Played God
Conductor
One Way Passage
Original Music Composer
Haunted Gold
Original Music Composer
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Conductor
Tiger Shark
Conductor
The Tenderfoot
Conductor
You Said a Mouthful
Music
Love Is a Racket
Conductor
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Conductor
Silver Dollar
Conductor
Winner Take All
Conductor
They Call It Sin
Conductor
Life Begins
Conductor
The Match King
Conductor
The Rich Are Always with Us
Conductor
Beauty and the Boss
Conductor
The Purchase Price
Conductor
Miss Pinkerton
Conductor
The Crash
Conductor
Man Wanted
Conductor
Scarlet Dawn
Conductor
Three on a Match
Conductor
Central Park
Conductor
Big City Blues
Conductor
Doctor X
Conductor
The Mouthpiece
