Ray Heindorf
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 25, 1908
Day of Death: February 3, 1980 (71 years old)
Place of Birth: Haverstraw, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Vélez. After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments. He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's comeback film A Star is Born (1954) and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score. Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack L. Warner, 1776. Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song. Heindorf won three, in the category of Best Score of a Musical, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man. His wins for the former two films made him the first to accomplish consecutive wins in a musical category. Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and reputedly was buried with his favorite conducting baton.
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![I'll See You in My Dreams](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/l7qBmXPwXUZRa17RI2M3MLbTnTV.jpg)
Actor Orchestra Leader at Kahn Benefit (uncredited)
I'll See You in My Dreams
Actor Self (uncredited)
The Screen Director
![I'll See You in My Dreams](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/l7qBmXPwXUZRa17RI2M3MLbTnTV.jpg)
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I'll See You in My Dreams
![Come Fill the Cup](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/5d11SH9c0pB4EIl1MpqVf480M0j.jpg)
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Come Fill the Cup
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Original Music Composer
Come Fill the Cup
![A Streetcar Named Desire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/aicdlO5vt7z2ARm279eGzJeYCLQ.jpg)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Strangers on a Train
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Music Director
Lullaby of Broadway
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Storm Warning
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Goodbye, My Fancy