Charles Gross
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Charles "Charlie" Gross is an American Film and TV composer, living in New York City.
Gross was educated at Harvard University (BA), the New England Conservatory and Mills College (teaching fellowship) and a student of Darius Milhaud. He arranged for the West Point Band for three years, and served in the US Army. Later he became a writer for industrial films and cartoons.
He wrote original music for the 1976 Broadway production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.
His film and television scores included Valdez Is Coming (1971), The Tenth Level (1976), Blue Sunshine (1978), The Dain Curse (1978), Heartland (1979), My Body, My Child (1982), Terrible Joe Moran (1984), Country (1984), The Burning Bed (1984), The Night They Saved Christmas (1984), Arthur the King (1985), Sweet Dreams (1985), Punchline (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), Another You (1991), A Family Thing (1996) and Fakin' Da Funk (1997).
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- Articles sourced only by IMDb from December 2009
- 1934 births
- Living people
- American film score composers
- American television composers
- Harvard University alumni
- Mills College alumni
- Musicians from New York City
- New England Conservatory alumni
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- American composer, 20th-century birth stubs