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Adolph Deutsch
British-American composer, conductor and arranger
1897 – 1980aged 82
Adolph Deutsch left London for Buffalo as a child, worked as a silent-film accompanist by his teens, and built a Hollywood career arranging and conducting film scores rather than writing songs himself. He won Oscars for the background score of Oklahoma! and for conducting Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun, and lent his conducting to Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot and The Apartment as well as noir classics like The Maltese Falcon.