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Ah, no--- who's Doug Timm?
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Oct 11, 2011 - 9:10 PM
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dan the man
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MR Timm, was an up and coming composer in the mid eighties who composed music for about a dozen films, like Mission hill- Terror in the isles[co- composer], Streetwalkin,Fortune dane, U.S marshals, Waco and Rinehart, Winners take all, The man who fell to earth,Nightflyers,Dirty Dozen/Danko's dozen etc etc, films that were from Touchstone, MGM, UA, New century/ Vista etc, i really liked his Fell to earth score in 87.
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Hmmm, never registered with me. Don't even remember seeing his name in credits. Sorry he died.
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Check out GARY MCFARLAND - known best outside film, but very promising film composer judging by EYE OF THE DEVIL
(Buy EYE, by the way, it's a fantastic score.)
Not so much murdered - at least not with intent of murder - but (as I understand it) life cut short due to someone thinking it would be a good idea to spike his drink with Methodone. Tragic. Bassed on the EYE score, he had the kind of inventiveness and verve to make it to the top.
There is a film about him:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314096/
http://thisisgarymcfarland.com/Gary-McFarland_film
(Just for once, I won't sign off with "Cheers")
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Doug Timm also worked together with Barry De Vorzon on Night of the Creeps released by La-La Land.
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Actor "Sal Mineo" was also murdered.
"The adolescent Mineo dies of a stab wound during a 1976 robbery." (FSMO A Mineo Medley: Movie Music for a Forgotten Actor)
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A tragedy indeed. You can read my about Doug in my liner notes to NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and NIGHTFLYERS. He had a cool, distinctive voice as an electronic composer that captivated me, and I was honored to be able to write about his too-short contributions to the genre. I'm convinced he could've become a major talent had fate given him the chance.
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Can anyone come up with another real tragedy that occurred with film composers, besides dying young from illness.
James Newton Howard post-Batman?
Kind of a dark topic to continually explore, Dan!
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Elliot Goldenthal was leaning back in a chair in his kitchen one morning, when it fell backward. He hit his head and sustained brain damage. This cut his music career short, and I'm not sure he has really written a lot since, though he has been working with Julie Taymor, his Significant Other. The most recent score he has written, as far as I can tell, was for her film version of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST (2010).
I know he wasn't associated at all, as far as I can tell, with that debacle she was part of, the SPIDERMAN TURN OFF THE DARK Broadway musical....
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