Albert Glasser(1916-1998)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
One of the most prolific B-movie composers, Albert Glasser started off
as a copyist in the music department at Warner Brothers in the late
1930s, learning the art of film scoring from scratch while working
under such big guns as Max Steiner
and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He
graduated to orchestrating, and by the mid-'40s was composing and
directing his own scores. A hard, fast worker, Glasser found his
musical skills put to the test in the frantic, down-to-the-wire world
of B-picture making. He scored a staggering 135 movies between 1944 and
1962, not counting at least 35 features for which he received no
credit. In addition to scoring 300 television shows and 450 radio
programs, he arranged and conducted for noted American operetta
composer Rudolf Friml and orchestrated for
Ferde Grofé Sr. (with whom he first
collaborated on the sci-fi classic
Rocketship X-M (1950)).
