Bernhard Kaun(1899-1980)

Music Department
Composer
Soundtrack

Bernhard Kaun was an American film score composer and orchestrator, primarily active from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. He is primarily remembered by horror fans for composing the score of the gothic horror film "Frankenstein" (1931). Kaun served for over a decade at Warner Bros., and composed the scores of many crime and mystery films for this studio.

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Known for

Flash Gordon

Music Department(stock music)

1936

The Adventures of Mark Twain

7.1

Music Department(as Bernard Kaun)

1944

Saratoga Trunk

6.3

Music Department(as Bernard Kaun)

1945

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

5.8

Video

Soundtrack("Frankenstein")

2009

Credits

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Music Department

The Fly
7.1
- conductor (uncredited)
- 1958
The Bravados
7.0
- conductor
- 1958
Ski Crazy!
- orchestrator (uncredited)
- 1955
Special Delivery
6.3
- musical director
- 1955
Devotion
6.6
- orchestrator (uncredited)
- 1946
Tomorrow Is Forever
7.3
- orchestrator (uncredited)
- 1946
Saratoga Trunk
6.3
- orchestral arranger (as Bernard Kaun)
- 1945
The Adventures of Mark Twain
7.1
- orchestrator (as Bernard Kaun)
- 1944
Riders of the Deadline
6.3
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1943
Wagon Wheels West
6.0
Short
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1943
Bar 20
6.2
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1943
Background to Danger
6.4
- composer: additional music (uncredited)
- 1943
Mission to Moscow
5.4
- orchestral arrangements (as Bernard Kaun)
- 1943
The Big Shot
6.7
- composer: additional music (uncredited)
- 1942
Gang Busters
7.0
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1942

Composer

The Fugitive
8.1
TV Series
- Composer
- 1963–1967
Full Circle
TV Series
- Composer
- 1960–1961
For Better or Worse
8.0
TV Series
- Composer
- 1959–1960
Alle Wege führen heim
7.5
- Composer
- 1957
Special Delivery
6.3
- Composer
- 1955
Fire One
8.1
TV Movie
- Composer
- 1954
Studio One
7.5
TV Series
- Composer
- 1948–1958
The Smiling Ghost
6.4
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
Bullets for O'Hara
5.4
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
Shadows on the Stairs
5.7
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
The Case of the Black Parrot
5.9
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
Money and the Woman
6.4
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1940
The Return of Doctor X
5.7
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1939
British Intelligence
6.1
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1939
Smashing the Money Ring
5.6
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1939

Soundtrack

Subb Niggurath
5.1
Short
- writer: "The Wolf Man"
- 2013
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
5.8
Video
- performer: "Frankenstein"
- writer: "Frankenstein"
- 2009
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
7.1
Video
- music: "Frankenstein Main Title and Theatrical Trailer Music"
- 2002
Taking the Count
5.4
Short
- music: "I Am a Thief" (uncredited)
- 1937
Don't Get Me Wrong
5.9
- music: "Black Fury" (uncredited)
- 1937
The Firebird
6.1
- arranger: "The Firebird Suite" (1919) (uncredited)
- 1934
Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.8
- music: "Agitato" (uncredited)
- 1933
Doctor X
6.4
- music: "Agitato" (uncredited)
- 1932
The Tenderfoot
5.8
- music: "Mechanical Ballet" (uncredited)
- 1932

Personal details

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Alternative name
- Bernard Kaun
Born
- April 5, 1899
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died
- January 3, 1980
- Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany(heart attack)

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Trivia
American-born film composer of German ancestry. Began his career as a conductor at the Alhambra Theatre in his native Milwaukee. From 1930, he worked in Hollywood for Universal, Warner Brothers and Paramount (often on horror films) as orchestrator and composer of scores and incidental music.