Lionel Newman Net Worth is
$4 Million

Mini Biography

Lionel Newman was the youngest of the triumvirate of accomplished virtuosos, composers and conductors, who all dominated the music section at 20th Hundred years Fox for a lot more than 4 decades. Already an extremely deemed pianist by age 15, Lionel continued the nationwide vaudeville circuit as accompanist for Mae Western, before becoming a member of his siblings, Alfred and Emil, for the Western Coast. He finished his music research under Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in LA and, by 1934, fronted his personal musical ensemble, ‘Newman’s Culture Orchestra’, aboard the blissful luxury cruise liner SS Rotterdam for the Holland-America Line. Beneath the tutelage of older brother Alfred (who headed the music department at 20th Century Fox from 1939-60), Lionel gradually broke in to the film business. He was initially commissioned to create the title music for the present day traditional western, The Cowboy and the girl (1938). Because of this, he distributed an Oscar-nomination for Greatest Music with lyricist Arthur Quenzer. In 1942, Lionel was employed by Fox as rehearsal pianist and songwriter. He obtained his first main strike in 1948 with the typical “Once again” (created for the film Road Home (1948)), which rode saturated in the Strike Parade, and was included in many top superstars of your day, including Mel Tormé, Doris Time, Vera Lynn and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra. By the first 50’s, Lionel was receiving even more prestigious assignments, both as music director so that as composer. From enough time they initial worked jointly on Don’t Trouble to Knock (1952), he struck up an in depth working romantic relationship (and subsequent camaraderie) with fellow Fox agreement participant Marilyn Monroe. He became her preferred conductor on a few of her greatest movies, including Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). He also composed the title melody for River of No Come back (1954) (with lyrics by Ken Darby), plus another piece through the film, “Down in the Meadow” – both sung by Marilyn. Additional notable movies he done over time, consist of North to Alaska (1960), Cleopatra (1963), The Fine sand Pebbles (1966) and Alien (1979). Among his compositions will be the theme for The Happy Types (1956) (with pre-Spaghetti traditional western whistling) and (as co-writer with sibling Alfred) the stirring starting theme for the gritty revenge traditional western The Bravados (1958), starring Gregory Peck. Pursuing Alfred’s departure from Fox in 1959, Lionel was advertised to music movie director, then to vice president responsible for feature and tv music. Through the pursuing 10 years, he supervised nearly all musical segments in the studio, furthermore to composing some traditional TV music, like the jazz-tinged theme from THE COUNTLESS Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959). In 1969, Lionel received an Oscar (distributed to Lennie Hayton) for Greatest Score of the Musical Picture for Hello, Dolly! (1969). The next year, Alfred passed away and Lionel overran the mantle of general movie director of music at Fox, a posture he kept until his personal departure in 1985. He consequently joined MGM/United Performers in an identical executive convenience of the remaining many years of his life. Known for his consummate perfectionism, aswell as his frequently raucous love of life, Lionel was greatly well known by his peers and valued by up-and -arriving film composers. A scholarship or grant for young traditional conductors is known as in his honor.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Lionel Newman
Died	February 3, 1989, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Pianist, Conductor, Film Score Composer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Beverly Lloyd
Children	Carroll Newman, Jenifer Newman, Deborah Newman Sharpe
Parents	Luba Newman
Siblings	Alfred Newman, Emil Newman, Irving George Newman
Awards	Academy Award for Best Original Musical
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Academy Award for Best Original Song