Heinz Roemheld

Heinz Roemheld

  • Birthday: 1901-05-01
  • Deathday: 1985-02-11
  • Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Also know as: Heinz Eric Roemheld

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heinz Roemheld (Milwaukee, May 1, 1901 – Huntington Beach, California, February 11, 1985) was an American composer. Born Heinz Eric Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was one of four children of German immigrant Heinrich Roemheld and his wife Fanny Rauterberg Roemheld. Heinrich was a pharmacist, but all the members of the family were musical. Heinz's brother Edgar (1898-1964) became a conductor, while sister Irmgard (1904-1995) became a well-known Milwaukee music teacher and radio broadcaster. Roemheld was a child prodigy who began playing the piano at the age of 4. He graduated from the Milwaukee College of Music at 19, and performed in theaters to earn money to study piano in Europe. In 1920, he went to Berlin, where he studied with Hugo Kaun, Ferruccio Busoni, and Egon Petri. While he was there, he appeared in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. When he returned to America, Roemheld became involved in music for silent films, both as a pianist and as a conductor. In 1925, he was sent back to Berlin as head of Universal Pictures theaters there, but had to leave in 1929 due to the rise of Nazism. Back in America, Roemheld moved to Los Angeles and became a prominent cinema composer. He scored some scenes in Gone with the Wind, including the burning of Atlanta, although he was not credited on-screen. In 1942, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for Yankee Doodle Dandy. Among the more than 400 other films for which he composed music were Gentleman Jim, The Lady From Shanghai, The Invisible Man, and Shine On, Harvest Moon. After World War II, Roemheld once again returned to Germany to become Chief of the Film, Theatre, and Music Section of the Information Central Division of The American Armies in Europe. He continued writing for several major film studios until the late 1950s, and after briefly working in television, he retired in 1964 to concentrate on his classical composition. He is best known for the song "Ruby" from the movie Ruby Gentry (1952), which has become a standard. He married a former Miss Milwaukee, Emeline Defnet (1901-1980), from whom he was later divorced. They had two daughters, Mary Lou Roemheld, who was married for years to game show host Jack Narz, and Ann, who married game show host Bill Cullen. Roemheld died on February 11, 1985, at a convalescent home in Huntington Beach after contracting pneumonia three weeks earlier.

Production

Underground

1941

As Additional Music

Manpower

1941

As Additional Music

The Preview Murder Mystery

1936

As Additional Music

Big Brown Eyes

1936

As Additional Music

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

As Original Music Composer

The Invisible Man

1933

As Original Music Composer

Two Against the World

1936

As Music

Blues in the Night

1941

As Original Music Composer

Brother Orchid

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Hard Way

1943

As Original Music Composer

Chicago Calling

1951

As Original Music Composer

Station West

1948

As Original Music Composer

Union Station

1950

As Original Music Composer

There's Always Tomorrow

1956

As Original Music Composer

The Roaring Twenties

1939

As Original Music Composer

The Young in Heart

1938

As Original Music Composer

The Mandarin Mystery

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Flame

1947

As Original Music Composer

I, Jane Doe

1948

As Original Music Composer

Invisible Stripes

1939

As Original Music Composer

Ruby Gentry

1952

As Original Music Composer

Mr. Soft Touch

1949

As Original Music Composer

Kid Galahad

1937

As Original Music Composer

Loan Shark

1952

As Original Music Composer

Peter Ibbetson

1935

As Original Music Composer

The Strawberry Blonde

1941

As Original Music Composer

The Wagons Roll at Night

1941

As Original Music Composer

The Good Humor Man

1950

As Original Music Composer

The Lucky Stiff

1949

As Original Music Composer

Flight from Destiny

1941

As Original Music Composer

Living on Velvet

1935

As Music

A Lady Surrenders

1930

As Music

Mandalay

1934

As Music

Up for Murder

1931

As Music

Too Much Harmony

1933

As Music

Ride Lonesome

1959

As Original Music Composer

The Tall T

1957

As Original Music Composer

Cross Country Cruise

1934

As Original Music Composer

Draegerman Courage

1937

As Original Music Composer

Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939

As Original Music Composer

Lady with Red Hair

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Land Unknown

1957

As Original Music Composer

The Monster That Challenged the World

1957

As Original Music Composer

On Our Merry Way

1948

As Original Music Composer

My Dear Secretary

1948

As Original Music Composer

Bombay Mail

1934

As Original Music Composer

Road Gang

1936

As Original Music Composer

Imitation of Life

1934

As Music

The Gilded Lily

1935

As Music

The White Angel

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Bride Comes Home

1935

As Music

The Black Cat

1934

As Music

Journal of a Crime

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Golden Arrow

1936

As Original Music Composer

Satan Met a Lady

1936

As Original Music Composer

It's Love I'm After

1937

As Original Music Composer

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

As Original Music Composer

A Modern Hero

1934

As Original Music Composer

Sweet Adeline

1934

As Original Music Composer

A Lost Lady

1934

As Original Music Composer

Fashions of 1934

1934

As Original Music Composer

Housewife

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Girl from 10th Avenue

1935

As Original Music Composer

Front Page Woman

1935

As Original Music Composer

Dangerous

1935

As Original Music Composer

Two in a Crowd

1936

As Original Music Composer

West of Shanghai

1937

As Original Music Composer

The Creature Walks Among Us

1956

As Original Music Composer

Cain and Mabel

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Perfect Specimen

1937

As Original Music Composer

Pillars of the Sky

1956

As Original Music Composer

Four Frightened People

1934

As Original Music Composer

Riders of Death Valley

1941

As Original Music Composer

Desirable

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Payoff

1935

As Original Music Composer

King of the Underworld

1939

As Original Music Composer

Away All Boats

1956

As Original Music Composer

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950

As Original Music Composer

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

As Original Music Composer

Law of the Tropics

1941

As Original Music Composer

Out of the Fog

1941

As Original Music Composer

Thieves Fall Out

1941

As Original Music Composer

Brother Rat and a Baby

1940

As Original Music Composer

A Child Is Born

1939

As Original Music Composer

Three Smart Girls

1936

As Original Music Composer

It All Came True

1940

As Original Music Composer

Four's a Crowd

1938

As Original Music Composer

The Irish in Us

1935

As Original Music Composer

The Mole People

1956

As Original Music Composer

Stand-In

1937

As Original Music Composer

Tough Guy

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Voice of Bugle Ann

1936

As Original Music Composer

Gentleman Jim

1942

As Original Music Composer

The Last Outpost

1935

As Original Music Composer

Easy to Love

1934

As Original Music Composer

Merry Wives of Reno

1934

As Original Music Composer

British Agent

1934

As Original Music Composer

Mary Jane's Pa

1935

As Original Music Composer

Storm Over the Andes

1935

As Original Music Composer

Bright Lights

1935

As Original Music Composer

Maybe It's Love

1935

As Original Music Composer

I Met My Love Again

1938

As Original Music Composer

Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935

As Original Music Composer

Her Master's Voice

1936

As Original Music Composer

Alcatraz Island

1937

As Original Music Composer

Four Hours to Kill!

1935

As Original Music Composer

Stranded

1935

As Original Music Composer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935

As Original Music Composer

Dr. Socrates

1935

As Original Music Composer

Decision at Sundown

1957

As Original Music Composer

Enter Madame

1935

As Original Music Composer

We're in the Money

1935

As Original Music Composer

Janie

1944

As Original Music Composer

The Fuller Brush Man

1948

As Original Music Composer

Love, Honor and Behave

1938

As Original Music Composer

Hands Across the Table

1935

As Original Music Composer

A Slight Case of Murder

1938

As Original Music Composer

I'm No Angel

1933

As Original Music Composer

Love in Bloom

1935

As Original Music Composer

Rose of the Rancho

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Male Animal

1942

As Original Music Composer

Hearts Divided

1936

As Original Music Composer

What Men Want

1930

As Music

I Found Stella Parish

1935

As Original Music Composer

Call It a Day

1937

As Music

Happiness Ahead

1934

As Music

Honeymoon for Three

1941

As Music

Ready for Love

1934

As Original Music Composer

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

As Original Music Composer

Four Mothers

1941

As Original Music Composer

The Big Trees

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Good Fairy

1935

As Music Director

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935

As Music

Dracula

1931

As Conductor

Captain Lightfoot

1955

As Music

Broadway Gondolier

1935

As Music

A Scandal in Paris

1946

As Conductor

Insurance Investigator

1951

As Original Music Composer

I Met My Love Again

1938

As Music Director

The Glass Key

1935

As Original Music Composer

East of Java

1935

As Original Music Composer

Make Your Own Bed

1944

As Original Music Composer

3 Kids and a Queen

1935

As Original Music Composer

Drácula

1931

As Conductor

Drácula

1931

As Music Supervisor

Private Worlds

1935

As Original Music Composer

Private Worlds

1935

As Music

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

1939

As Original Music Composer

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

1939

As Original Music Composer

Find the Blackmailer

1943

As Original Music Composer

The Moonlighter

1953

As Music

The Mad Empress

1939

As Music

Too Young to Know

1945

As Original Music Composer

Female on the Beach

1955

As Original Music Composer

Page Miss Glory

1935

As Music

My Love Came Back

1940

As Music

The Sin of Nora Moran

1933

As Original Music Composer

Hell's Heroes

1929

As Original Music Composer

Comet Over Broadway

1938

As Music

The Girl from Manhattan

1948

As Original Music Composer

O.S.S.

1946

As Music

Affectionately Yours

1941

As Music

The Devil Is a Woman

1935

As Music

Miami Exposé

1956

As Music

As the Earth Turns

1934

As Music

Curley

1947

As Original Music Composer

No Time for Comedy

1940

As Music

The Mummy's Tomb

1942

As Music

Let's Kill Uncle

1966

As Music

Here Comes Trouble

1948

As Music

Hollywood Hotel

1938

As Music

Stormy

1935

As Music

Christmas Eve

1947

As Music

Night Key

1937

As Music

Invisible Ghost

1941

As Music

Black Dragons

1942

As Music

Always in My Heart

1942

As Music

Men Are Such Fools

1938

As Original Music Composer

Jack and the Beanstalk

1952

As Original Music Composer

Decision at Sundown

1957

As Conductor

Dracula

1931

As Music Supervisor

Flirtation Walk

1934

As Music

Dracula's Daughter

1936

As Original Music Composer

Werewolf of London

1935

As Music

The Invisible Man

1933

As Conductor

This Is Russia!

1957

As Music

The Square Jungle

1955

As Original Music Composer

World in My Corner

1956

As Music

Step Down to Terror

1958

As Music

Gold Diggers in Paris

1938

As Music

Gold Diggers of 1937

1936

As Music

Give Me Your Heart

1936

As Music

The Outer Gate

1937

As Original Music Composer

Earthworm Tractors

1936

As Musical

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