DAVID BUTTOLPH

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Date of Birth
3 August 1902, New York, New York, USA

Date of Death
1 January 1983, Poway, California, USA

Birth Name
James David Buttolph Jr.

Mini Biography

Prolific screen composer, arranger, and conductor, educated at Juillard and the Academie fur Musik in Vienna. He played in night clubs in Vienna and Munich from 1923 to 1926, then was an opera coach in Munich, 1926-1927. In 1927 he conducted for NBC, and then became music director for WGY in Schenectady, New York. In 1933, he departed for Hollywood and joined ASCAP in 1944.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!

Filmography

1. The Man from Galveston (1963)
2. "The Virginian" (3 episodes, 1963)
... aka The Men from Shiloh (USA: new title)
- Brother Thaddeus (1963) TV episode
- It Takes a Big Man (1963) TV episode
- The Evil That Men Do (1963) TV episode
3. PT 109 (1963)
4. "Laramie" (1 episode, 1960)
- Street of Hate (1960) TV episode
5. Guns of the Timberland (1960)
6. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
7. Westbound (1959)
8. "Shirley Temple's Storybook" (1 episode, 1958)
... aka The Shirley Temple Theatre (USA: third season title)
- Mother Goose (1958) TV episode (background music)
9. Onionhead (1958)
10. The Deep Six (1958)
11. The D.I. (1957)
... aka The Drill Instructor (USA: alternative title)
12. The Big Land (1957)
... aka Stampeded (UK)
13. "Noah's Ark" (1956) TV series (unknown episodes)
14. "Conflict" (1956) TV series (unknown episodes)
15. The Burning Hills (1956)
16. A Cry in the Night (1956)
17. Santiago (1956)
... aka The Gun Runner
18. The Steel Jungle (1956)
19. The Lone Ranger (1956)
20. Target Zero (1955)
21. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
22. "Casablanca" (1955) TV series (unknown episodes)
23. Jump Into Hell (1955)
24. "Kings Row" (1955) TV series (unknown episodes)
25. "The Adventures of Long John Silver" (1955) TV series (unknown episodes)
... aka Long John Silver
26. Long John Silver (1954)
... aka Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
27. The Bounty Hunter (1954)
28. Secret of the Incas (1954)
29. Riding Shotgun (1954)
30. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
31. Crime Wave (1954)
... aka The City Is Dark (UK)
32. Calamity Jane (1953) (uncredited)
33. Thunder Over the Plains (1953)
34. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
35. South Sea Woman (1953)
36. The System (1953)
37. House of Wax (1953)
38. The Man Behind the Gun (1953)
39. My Man and I (1952)
40. The Winning Team (1952)
41. Carson City (1952)
42. The Sellout (1952)
43. About Face (1952)
44. Talk About a Stranger (1952)
45. This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
46. Lone Star (1952)
47. Submarine Command (1951)
... aka The Submarine Story (USA)
48. Ten Tall Men (1951)
49. Fort Worth (1951)
50. Fighting Coast Guard (1951)
... aka Fighting U.S. Coast Guard
51. Along the Great Divide (1951)
... aka The Travelers (USA)
52. The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
53. The Enforcer (1951)
... aka Murder, Inc. (UK)
54. Three Secrets (1950)
55. Pretty Baby (1950)
56. Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
57. The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
58. Chain Lightning (1950)
59. Montana (1950)
60. The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
... aka Pride of Kentucky (UK)
61. Roseanna McCoy (1949)
62. The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
63. One Last Fling (1949)
64. Colorado Territory (1949)
... aka North of the Rio Grande (USA: alternative title)
65. John Loves Mary (1949)
66. June Bride (1948)
67. Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
68. Rope (1948) (uncredited)
... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (USA: complete title)
69. To the Victor (1948)
70. Bill and Coo (1948)
71. The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
72. Kiss of Death (1947)
73. Moss Rose (1947)
74. Boomerang! (1947)
75. The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
... aka The High Window (UK)
76. 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
77. My Darling Clementine (1946) (uncredited)
... aka John Ford's My Darling Clementine (USA: complete title)
78. Home, Sweet Homicide (1946)
79. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
... aka It Couldn't Happen to a Dog (UK)
80. Somewhere in the Night (1946)
81. Strange Triangle (1946)
... aka Strange Alibi
82. Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
83. Claudia and David (1946) (uncredited)
84. Shock (1946)
85. The Spider (1945)
86. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
87. Within These Walls (1945)
88. The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
89. Junior Miss (1945)
90. Nob Hill (1945)
91. The Bullfighters (1945)
92. Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
93. The Fighting Lady (1944)
94. The Big Noise (1944)
95. Till We Meet Again (1944)
... aka Tomorrow's Harvest
96. The Hitler Gang (1944)
97. Buffalo Bill (1944)
98. The Sullivans (1944) (uncredited)
... aka The Fighting Sullivans (USA: reissue title)
99. Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
100. Corvette K-225 (1943)
... aka The Nelson Touch (UK)
101. Bomber's Moon (1943)
102. My Friend Flicka (1943) (uncredited)
103. Crash Dive (1943)
104. Immortal Sergeant (1943)
105. Thunder Birds (1942)
106. Street of Chance (1942)
107. Berlin Correspondent (1942) (uncredited)
108. Wake Island (1942)
109. A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) (uncredited)
110. In Old California (1942)
111. Whispering Ghosts (1942) (uncredited)
112. The Mad Martindales (1942) (uncredited)
113. This Gun for Hire (1942)
114. Moontide (1942)
115. My Favorite Blonde (1942)
116. Castle in the Desert (1942) (uncredited)
117. Lady for a Night (1942)
118. Remember the Day (1941) (uncredited)
119. Swamp Water (1941)
... aka The Man Who Came Back (UK)
120. Great Guns (1941) (uncredited)
121. Man at Large (1941) (uncredited)
122. For Beauty's Sake (1941) (uncredited)
123. The Bride Wore Crutches (1941) (uncredited)
124. Scotland Yard (1941) (uncredited)
125. Tobacco Road (1941)
126. Western Union (1941) (uncredited)
127. Chad Hanna (1940)
128. Street of Memories (1940) (uncredited)
129. The Mark of Zorro (1940) (uncredited)
130. Public Deb No. 1 (1940) (uncredited)
131. Brigham Young (1940) (uncredited)
... aka Brigham Young: Frontiersman (UK) (USA: promotional title)
132. The Return of Frank James (1940) (uncredited)
133. The Man I Married (1940)
... aka I Married a Nazi
134. Maryland (1940) (uncredited)
135. Four Sons (1940) (uncredited)
136. Girl in 313 (1940) (uncredited)
137. I Was an Adventuress (1940) (uncredited)
138. Star Dust (1940)
139. The Blue Bird (1940) (uncredited)
140. He Married His Wife (1940) (uncredited)
141. Swanee River (1939) (uncredited)
... aka The Life of Stephen Foster
142. Barricade (1939)
143. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) (uncredited)
144. Here I Am a Stranger (1939) (uncredited)
145. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) (uncredited)
... aka Sherlock Holmes (UK)
146. Hotel for Women (1939)
... aka Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women
147. Susannah of the Mounties (1939) (uncredited)
148. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) (uncredited)
149. The Gorilla (1939) (uncredited)
150. Return of the Cisco Kid (1939) (uncredited)
151. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) (uncredited)
152. The Three Musketeers (1939) (uncredited)
... aka The Singing Musketeer (UK)
153. Made for Each Other (1939) (uncredited)
154. Josette (1938)
155. Island in the Sky (1938) (uncredited)
156. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) (uncredited)
... aka Mr. Moto's Diary (USA: review title)
157. Heidi (1937) (uncredited)
158. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
... aka Fifty Races to Town
159. Seventh Heaven (1937) (uncredited)
160. Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
161. Love Is News (1937)
162. Lloyd's of London (1936) (uncredited)
163. Reunion (1936) (uncredited)
164. Ladies in Love (1936) (uncredited)
165. Dimples (1936) (uncredited)
166. The Road to Glory (1936) (uncredited)
167. Everybody's Old Man (1936) (uncredited)
168. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) (uncredited)
169. Navy Wife (1935)
... aka Beauty's Daughter
170. Orchids to You (1935) (uncredited)
171. Dante's Inferno (1935) (uncredited)
172. Our Little Girl (1935) (uncredited)
173. Dos más uno dos (1934) (uncredited)
... aka Two and One Two
174. Pursued (1934) (uncredited)
175. Handy Andy (1934) (uncredited)
176. Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) (uncredited)
177. Wild Gold (1934) (uncredited)
178. Now I'll Tell (1934) (uncredited)
... aka Now I'll Tell You
... aka When New York Sleeps (UK)
179. Sleepers East (1934) (uncredited)
180. David Harum (1934) (uncredited)
181. I Am Suzanne (1933)
182. Mr. Skitch (1933) (uncredited)
183. Smoky (1933) (uncredited)
... aka Will James' Smoky (USA: complete title)


Music Department:

1. "F Troop" (composer: theme music) (1 episode, 1965)
- Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops (1965) TV episode (composer: theme music) (uncredited)
2. "Maverick" (composer: theme music) (4 episodes, 1959) (composer: theme song) (1 episode, 1959)
- Maverick Springs (1959) TV episode (composer: theme song)
- The Sheriff of Duck 'n' Shoot (1959) TV episode (composer: theme music)
- Pappy (1959) TV episode (composer: theme music)
- The Saga of Waco Williams (1959) TV episode (composer: theme music)
- Gun-Shy (1959) TV episode (composer: theme music)
3. "Shirley Temple's Storybook" (conductor) (1 episode, 1958)
... aka The Shirley Temple Theatre (USA: third season title)
- Mother Goose (1958) TV episode (conductor)
4. Home Before Dark (1958) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
5. Satan's Satellites (1958) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
6. The Big Land (1957) (conductor) (uncredited)
... aka Stampeded (UK)
7. Jump Into Hell (1955) (musical director)
8. Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
9. Pirates of Tripoli (1955) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
10. Long John Silver (1954) (musical director) (uncredited)
... aka Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
11. The Boy from Oklahoma (1954) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
12. Prisoners of the Casbah (1953) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
13. Sky Commando (1953) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
14. Serpent of the Nile (1953) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
15. Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
16. A Yank in Indo-China (1952) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
... aka Hidden Secret (UK)
17. Target Unknown (1951) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
18. Mystery Submarine (1950) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
19. Pretty Baby (1950) (musical director)
20. Return of the Frontiersman (1950) (musical director)
21. Montana (1950) (musical director) (uncredited)
22. One Last Fling (1949) (musical director) (uncredited)
23. One Sunday Afternoon (1948) (music score adaptor)
24. June Bride (1948) (musical director)
25. California Firebrand (1948) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
26. Where There's Life (1947) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
27. Gunman's Code (1946) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
28. Do You Love Me (1946) (music arranger: orchestral music) (uncredited)
29. Behind Green Lights (1946) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
30. The Daltons Ride Again (1945) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
31. Lumberjack (1944) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
32. Wintertime (1943) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
33. Buckskin Frontier (1943) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
... aka The Iron Road (UK)
34. The Black Swan (1942) (composer: additional music) (uncredited)
... aka Rafael Sabatini's The Black Swan (USA: complete title)
35. Iceland (1942) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
... aka Katina (UK)
36. Sundown Jim (1942) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
37. Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) (composer: additional music) (uncredited)
... aka The Story of Benjamin Blake
38. Ball of Fire (1941) (composer: additional music) (uncredited)
... aka The Professor and the Burlesque Queen
39. Cadet Girl (1941) (composer: incidental music)
40. Confirm or Deny (1941) (musical director)
41. We Go Fast (1941) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
42. Western Union (1941) (musical director)
43. The Return of Frank James (1940) (musical director)
44. The Man I Married (1940) (musical director)
... aka I Married a Nazi
45. Four Sons (1940) (musical director)
46. I Was an Adventuress (1940) (musical director)
47. He Married His Wife (1940) (musical director)
48. Hotel for Women (1939) (musical director)
... aka Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women
49. The Gorilla (1939) (musical director)
50. Love Affair (1939) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
51. Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) (musical director)
52. The Three Musketeers (1939) (musical director)
... aka The Singing Musketeer (UK)
53. Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
54. Suez (1938) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
55. Josette (1938) (musical director)
56. Happy Landing (1938) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
57. Second Honeymoon (1937) (musical director)
58. Danger-Love at Work (1937) (musical director)
59. Thin Ice (1937) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
... aka Komet, Der (Canada: English title)
... aka Lovely to Look at (UK)
60. You Can't Have Everything (1937) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited) (musical director)
61. Pigskin Parade (1936) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited) (musical director)
... aka Harmony Parade (UK)
62. Till We Meet Again (1936) (composer: stock music) (uncredited)
63. Everybody's Old Man (1936) (musical director)
64. Show Them No Mercy! (1935) (musical director)
... aka Tainted Money (UK)
65. The Littlest Rebel (1935) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
66. This Is the Life (1935) (musical director)
67. Bright Eyes (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
68. 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
69. The White Parade (1934) (orchestrator) (uncredited)
70. Love Time (1934) (composer: additional music) (uncredited)
71. Call It Luck (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
72. Baby Take a Bow (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
73. She Learned About Sailors (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)
74. George White's Scandals (1934) (composer: incidental music) (uncredited)

Soundtrack:

1. "Maverick" (1957) TV series (unknown episodes)
2. Bill and Coo (1948) (writer: "HUM A LITTLE TUNE", "OFF TO THE CIRCUS")
3. Stanley and Livingstone (1939) (writer: "The Departure" (1939))

Thanks, Keith, for sharing about all these prolific musicians who added to Duke's movies.

Do you know if it was health issues that brought Mr. Buttolph's career to an end 20 years before his death?

Chester :newyear:

David Buttolph, now there's a name that everyone knows!
He was the writer for the music on many TV serials,
inlcuding The Lone Ranger, Wagon Train and Maverick
and scored for over 300 movies!
However, he did write the music for 3 movies
with Duke.

The Horse Soldiers (1959)
In Old California (1942)
Lady for a Night (1942)

JIm and Sue,
From what I can see, he just retired in 1963,
He was 61, guess, he'd made enough money!
I included him, because I thought his score
for The Horse Solidiers was really good.