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David Mendoza(1894-1975)

  • Music Department
  • Composer
  • Actor
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In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into cultural icons, were the musical giants whose compositions defined the very films that captivated a generation of movie-goers. "Hollywoods Musical Moods" is an intimate conversation with some then-living legends from a bygone golden age of cinema.
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Hollywood's Musical Moods (1972)
David Mendoza was born on 13 March 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Local Boy Makes Good (1931), The Public Enemy (1931) and Ver e Amar! (1930). He died on 23 March 1975 in New York City, New York, USA.
BornMarch 13, 1894
DiedMarch 23, 1975(81)
BornMarch 13, 1894
DiedMarch 23, 1975(81)
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Known for

Joe E. Brown in Local Boy Makes Good (1931)
Local Boy Makes Good
6.1
  • Music Department(uncredited)
  • 1931
James Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931)
The Public Enemy
7.5
  • Music Department(uncredited)
  • 1931
Ver e Amar!
  • Soundtrack
  • 1930
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs (1928)
A Woman of Affairs
7.1
  • Soundtrack
  • 1928

Credits

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Music Department

  • Dixieland Jamboree
    Short
    • musical director: archive footage
    • 1946
  • Double or Nothing (1940)
    Double or Nothing
    6.2
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1940
  • Romance in Rhythm
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1940
  • Frances Carroll & 'the Coquettes' (1940)
    Frances Carroll & 'the Coquettes'
    7.3
    Short
    • musical director (uncredited)
    • 1940
  • One for the Book (1940)
    One for the Book
    5.3
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1940
  • History Repeats Itself
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Swing Styles
    Short
    • musical director (uncredited)
    • 1939
  • Red Skelton in Seeing Red (1939)
    Seeing Red
    5.9
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Three-Minute Fuse
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Bobby Hackett in On the Air (1939)
    On the Air
    6.4
    Short
    • musical director (uncredited)
    • 1939
  • The Broadway Buckaroo
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Public Jitterbug No. 1 (1939)
    Public Jitterbug No. 1
    5.5
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Roy Roberts and Duke McHale in Seeing Spots (1939)
    Seeing Spots
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Projection Room
    5.0
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939
  • Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
    Short
    • musical director
    • 1939

Composer

  • Dear Old Dad
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1938
  • Ski Flight (1938)
    Ski Flight
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1938
  • Roping 'em Alive!
    Short
    • music score
    • 1937
  • Attic of Terror
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1937
  • His First Flame (1935)
    His First Flame
    5.5
    Short
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1935
  • The Blue and the Gray
    5.2
    Short
    • musical score
    • 1935
  • Remember the Alamo
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1934
  • Dixieland
    6.2
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1934
  • Hail Columbia (1934)
    Hail Columbia
    5.4
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1934
  • Detectuvs
    Short
    • Composer
    • 1932
  • Juliette Compton, Rose Hobart, and Ben Lyon in Compromised (1931)
    Compromised
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1931
  • John Barrymore, Michael Curtiz, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, and Marian Marsh in The Mad Genius (1931)
    The Mad Genius
    6.3
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1931
  • George Arliss and Doris Kenyon in Alexander Hamilton (1931)
    Alexander Hamilton
    5.8
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1931
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young in I Like Your Nerve (1931)
    I Like Your Nerve
    5.2
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1931
  • Dudley Digges, John Halliday, Walter Huston, Doris Kenyon, David Manners, and Loretta Young in The Ruling Voice (1931)
    The Ruling Voice
    6.0
    • Composer (uncredited)
    • 1931

Actor

  • Home Run on the Keys (1937)
    Home Run on the Keys
    5.7
    Short
    • Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
    • 1937

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Personal details

  • Born
    • March 13, 1894
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • March 23, 1975
    • New York City, New York, USA(undisclosed)
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