titled If I Say So Myself. The book was eventually published under the title The Bad and the Beautiful: My Life in a Golden Age of Film Music. In 2012, he was named for a Lifetime Achievement Award for a Past Film Composer. His son Alex, is a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. Selected film and TV scores The Day After (1983) The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978) Glass Houses (1972) What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970) Will Penny (1968) A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) Love Has Many Faces (1965) Sylvia (1965) Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) The Patsy (1964) Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Too Late Blues (1961) Night Tide (1961) Pay or Die (1960) Al Capone (1959) Separate Tables (1958) Twilight for the Gods (1958) Until They Sail (1957) Gunsight Ridge (1957) Man on Fire (1957) The Vintage (1957) Bigger Than Life (1956) Hilda Crane (1956) Jubal (1956) Seven Wonders of the World (1955) (with Sol Kaplan, Jerome Moross, Emil Newman) The Big Combo (1955) Suddenly (1954) Apache (1954) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Madeline (cartoon) (1952) Carrie (1952) Pat and Mike (1952) The Man with a Cloak (1951) Across the Wide Missouri (1951) Kind Lady (1951) The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) The Magnificent Yankee (1950) Whirlpool (1950) Force of Evil (1948) Apartment for Peggy (1948) Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) Daisy Kenyon (1947) Forever Amber (1947) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Smoky (1946) Fallen Angel (1945) Laura (1944) Tampico (1944) City Without Men (1943) The Men in Her Life (1941) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Stanley and Livingstone (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Modern Times (arranger) (1936) Work on Broadway Thumbs Up! (1934) - revue - co-orchestrator Parade (1935) - revue - co-orchestrator At Home Abroad (1935) - revue - co-orchestrator New Faces of 1936 (1936) - revue - co-orchestrator If the Shoe Fits (1946) - musical - composer Dream (1997) - revue - featured songwriter for "Laura" See also The Film Music Society References External links Brief biography from Otherminds.org David Raksin Centennial Tribute Obituary The New York Times (August 11, 2004) Interviews Streaming audio interview with Raksin, by Charles Amirkhanian, January 28, 1988 David Raksin interview by Bruce Duffie, May 1988 1912 births 2004 deaths 20th-century American composers 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American