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Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon and the animated The Lord of the Rings. Description above from the Wikipedia page Leonard Rosenman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
September 7, 1924
Died
March 4, 2008 (age 83)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Filmography
88 films, 6 shows


Keeper of the City
1991 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police detective and a local journalist seems eager to catch him.


Ambition
1991 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Albert Merrik is released from prison after 15 years, Osgood believes that writing down the history of his crimes could be his breakthrough. Although he refuses to talk to him at first, Osgood follows him around and offers him a job in his book shop. To get the right impressions for his book, he feels that he has to experience Merrik psychopathic again.


Aftermath: A Test of Love
1991 · 1h 37m
country: Unknown
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.


RoboCop 2
1990 · 1h 57m
country: United States
After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.


Promised a Miracle
1988 · 1h 34m
country: United States
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.


Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1986 · 1h 58m
country: United States
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.


Sylvia
1986 · 1h 40m
country: New Zealand
New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used while working with the children from the indigenous Maon.


First Steps
1985 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.


Heart of the Stag
1984 · 1h 31m
country: New Zealand
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.


Cross Creek
1983 · 2h 7m
country: United Kingdom
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.


Making Love
1982 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.


The Jazz Singer
1980 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.


Friendly Fire
1980 · 2h 27m
country: United States
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.


City in Fear
1980 · 2h 16m
country: United States
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.


Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · 1h 32m
country: United States
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.


Nero Wolfe
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.


Prophecy
1979 · 1h 42m
country: United States
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.


The Lord of the Rings
1978 · 2h 12m
country: United Kingdom
Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.


An Enemy of the People
1978 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.


The Other Side of Hell
1978 · 2h 29m
country: United States
A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.


September 30, 1955
1977 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.


The Car
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.


The Possessed
1977 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.


Birch Interval
1976 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.


Barry Lyndon
1975 · 3h 8m
country: United Kingdom
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.


Race with the Devil
1975 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.


Sky Hei$t
1975 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.


Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
1974 · 1h 40m
country: United States
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain.


The Cat Creature
1973 · 1h 12m
country: United States
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.


Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.


The Bravos
1972 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.


The Todd Killings
1971 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.


In Broad Daylight
1971 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.


Banyon
1971 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon's new client, a young woman, is found dead in his office...shot with his own gun.


A Man Called Horse
1970 · 1h 54m
country: Mexico
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.


Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.


This Savage Land
1969 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harassed by Confederate marauders. This was the pilot for the television series 'The Road West ', originally aired in two episodes.


Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.


Any Second Now
1969 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.


Hellfighters
1968 · 2h 1m
country: United States
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.


Alexander The Great
1968 · 1h
country: United States
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then-known world and created a Greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India.


Stranger on the Run
1967 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.


Countdown
1967 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.


Fantastic Voyage
1966 · 1h 41m
country: United States
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.


The Chapman Report
1962 · 2h 5m
country: United States
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.


Convicts 4
1962 · 1h 45m
country: United States
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.


Hell Is for Heroes
1962 · 1h 30m
country: United States
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.


The Plunderers
1960 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawlessness if decent folks like rancher and Civil War veteran Sam Christy don’t take a stand.


The Crowded Sky
1960 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.


The Bramble Bush
1960 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.


The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.


Pork Chop Hill
1959 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.


Bombers B-52
1957 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.


The Young Stranger
1957 · 1h 24m
country: United States
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.


Edge of the City
1957 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.


Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · 1h 51m
country: United States
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.


The Cobweb
1955 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.


East of Eden
1955 · 1h 55m
country: United States
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.