Composer
Writer
June 16, 1936 – March 26, 2004
Credits:
A Place to
Call Home (1987); A Time for Miracles (1980); ABC Weekend Specials (1984);
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); And Baby Makes Six (1979); ...and
Your Name Is Jonah (1979); Baby Blue Marine (1976); Baby Comes Home (1980);
Baby Sister (1983); Baby Songs Presents: Baby Rock (1991); Bad Ronald (1974);
Believe in Me (1971); Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977); Bitter Harvest
(1981); Blind Ambition (1979); Born Innocent (1974); Bridge to Silence (1989);
Broken Promise (1981); Buck's Birthday (1977); Bud and Lou (1978); Calamity
Jane (1984); California Dreaming (1979); Carpenters Very First Television
Special (1976); Catalina C-Lab (1982); CBS Schoolbreak Special (1990);
Celebration Family (1987); Chosen Survivors (1974); Christmas Miracle in Caufield,
U.S.A. (1977); Çildirtan Kadin (1979); Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters
(1997); Cloud Dancer (1980); Cover Me Babe (1970); Cybill (1995); Dadah Is
Death (1988); Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976); Deadly Encounter
(1982); Deadman's Curve (1978); Death Be Not Proud (1975); Desperate Rescue:
The Cathy Mahone Story (1993); Dream West (1986); E! True Hollywood Story
(1997); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fear Stalk (1989); Fighting Back:
The Story of Rocky Bleier (1980); Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (1995);
Final Jeopardy (1985); Forever (1978); Friends (1979); Full House (1983);
Futureworld (1976); Goodnight Jackie (1974); Greased Lightning (1977); Green
Eyes (1977); Hardesty House (1986); Having Babies (1978–1979); Having Babies II
(1977); Her Wicked Ways (1991); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982);
Homeward Bound (1980); Hostage Flight (1985); Ike: The War Years (1979); In
Defense of Kids (1983); Inside the Third Reich (1982); Inspector Perez (1983);
Intimate Strangers (1977); It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974); Jacqueline
Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); Jessica Novak (1981); Joe Panther (1976);
Just Me and You (1978); Kaz (1978); Kids Don't Tell (1985); Kiss Meets the
Phantom of the Park (1978); Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993);
Lady Mobster (1988); Lady of the House (1978); Lawman Without a Gun (1978);
Leadbelly (1976); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Licorice Pizza (2021); Life
Goes to the Movies (1976); Life Goes to War: Hollywood and the Home Front
(1977); Long Journey Back (1978); Lost Treasure of Dos Santos (1997); Love
Leads the Way: A True Story (1984); Lovers and Other Strangers (1970 / 1983);
Loving Couples (1980); Lucan (1977); Made (1972); Man from Atlantis
(1977–1978); Marriage Is Alive and Well (1980); Mastermind (1976); McLaren's
Riders (1977); Mean Dog Blues (1978); Minstrel Man (1977); Miracle on Ice
(1981); Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982); Mixed Company (1974); Mom,
the Wolfman and Me (1980); More Than Friends (1978); Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
(1971); Murder C.O.D. (1990); My Kidnapper, My Love (1980); Night Partners
(1983); Not in Front of the Children (1982); Off the Rack (1984); Once Upon a
Family (1980); One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983); Paris (1979–1980); Policewoman
Centerfold (1983); Punch and Jody (1974); Ravagers (1979); Robert Kennedy and
His Times (1985); Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978); Samurai (1979); Sex and
the Single Parent (1979); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Strangers: The
Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Strawberry Road (1991); Superstar: The
Karen Carpenter Story (1987); Survive the Savage Sea (1992); The 42nd Annual
Academy Awards (1970); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 45th Annual
Academy Awards (1973); The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974); The
Awakening Land (1978); The Baby Maker (1970); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
(1977); The Death of Richie (1977); The Dion Brothers (1974); The Dream Makers
(1975); The Facts of Life Down Under (1987); The First Time (1982); The Five of
Me (1981); The Gift of Love (1978); The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983);
The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977); The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990); The
Hostage Heart (1977); The Karen Carpenter Story (1989); The Larry Sanders Show
(1995); The Last Giraffe (1979); The Last Prostitute (1991); The Life and
Assassination of the Kingfish (1977); The Little Ark (1972); The Making of
'High Noon' (1992); The Man Who Could Talk to Kids (1973); The Marriage of a
Young Stockbroker (1971); The Marva Collins Story (1981); The Midnight Special
(1980); The Pest (1997); The Plutonium Incident (1980); The Secret (1992); The
Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980); The Simpsons (2014); The Special London
Bridge Special (1972); The Spikes Gang (1974); The Stalking Moon (1968); The
Sterile Cuckoo (1969); The Take (1974); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977);
The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The World Beyond (1978); The World of
Darkness (1977); They Said It with Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime (1977);
Thornwell (1981); Topper (1979); Transplant (1979); Up the Down Staircase
(1967); Vampire (1979); Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986); Virgin Snow
(1976); Walking Through the Fire (1979); Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976);
We're Fighting Back (1981); Westworld (1973); What Price Victory (1988); White
Palace (1990); Who'll Save Our Children? (1978); Wishman (1983); Woman of the
Year (1976); Yours, Mine and Ours (1968).
