William Lava

William Lava

  • Birthday: 1911-03-18
  • Deathday: 1971-02-20
  • Place of birth: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
  • Also know as: William B. Lava

Biography

William "Bill" Benjamin Lava (March 18, 1911 – February 20, 1971) was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as that for the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 to 1969, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn, making him the last composer and arranger in the classic era of Warner Bros. Cartoons.

Production

To Have and Have Not

1945

As Additional Music

Make Your Own Bed

1944

As Additional Music

The House Across the Street

1949

As Original Music Composer

Highway 301

1950

As Original Music Composer

This Side of the Law

1950

As Original Music Composer

Flaxy Martin

1949

As Original Music Composer

Homicide

1949

As Original Music Composer

Highway West

1941

As Original Music Composer

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

1969

As Original Music Composer

Escape from Crime

1942

As Original Music Composer

A-Haunting We Will Go

1966

As Original Music Composer

Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

1964

As Original Music Composer

To Beep or Not to Beep

1963

As Original Music Composer

Mad as a Mars Hare

1963

As Original Music Composer

So You Think You're Not Guilty

1950

As Original Music Composer

Come On, Rangers

1938

As Original Music Composer

Saskatchewan

1954

As Original Music Composer

Hell Bent for Leather

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Wild Chase

1965

As Original Music Composer

So You Want to Be a Detective

1948

As Original Music Composer

Barricade

1950

As Original Music Composer

Chubasco

1968

As Original Music Composer

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971

As Original Music Composer

Revenge of the Creature

1955

As Original Music Composer

Cult of the Cobra

1955

As Original Music Composer

The Deadly Mantis

1957

As Original Music Composer

Zorro, the Avenger

1959

As Original Music Composer

Gangs of Chicago

1940

As Original Music Composer

Western Jamboree

1938

As Original Music Composer

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

1939

As Original Music Composer

Secret Agent X-9

1945

As Original Music Composer

Adventures of Red Ryder

1940

As Original Music Composer

Pillars of the Sky

1956

As Original Music Composer

The Great Carrot-Train Robbery

1969

As Original Music Composer

Pancho's Hideaway

1964

As Original Music Composer

Chili Weather

1963

As Original Music Composer

Nuts and Volts

1964

As Original Music Composer

Pinkfinger

1965

As Original Music Composer

The Pink Phink

1964

As Original Music Composer

Once Over Lightly

1944

As Original Music Composer

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

1943

As Original Music Composer

In Old Monterey

1939

As Original Music Composer

Transylvania 6-5000

1963

As Original Music Composer

Wall of Noise

1963

As Original Music Composer

Señorella and the Glass Huarache

1964

As Original Music Composer

Martian Through Georgia

1962

As Original Music Composer

Moonrise

1948

As Original Music Composer

Norman Normal

1968

As Original Music Composer

The Million Hare

1963

As Original Music Composer

Bartholomew Versus the Wheel

1964

As Original Music Composer

Daredevils of the Red Circle

1939

As Original Music Composer

Hawk of the Wilderness

1938

As Original Music Composer

Now Hear This

1963

As Original Music Composer

The Big Punch

1948

As Original Music Composer

Dick Tracy's G-Men

1939

As Original Music Composer

A Message to Gracias

1964

As Original Music Composer

Law of the Tropics

1941

As Original Music Composer

Murder in the Air

1940

As Music

A Shot in the Dark

1941

As Original Music Composer

I Was Framed

1942

As Original Music Composer

Spy Ship

1942

As Original Music Composer

Women at War

1943

As Original Music Composer

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944

As Original Music Composer

She-Wolf of London

1946

As Original Music Composer

Give Us the Earth!

1947

As Music

Rabbit, Run

1970

As Original Music Composer

Food and Magic

1943

As Music

The Courageous Dr. Christian

1940

As Original Music Composer

Tenth Avenue Kid

1938

As Original Music Composer

I Am an American

1944

As Music

The Nurse's Secret

1941

As Music

Smart as a Fox

1946

As Music

Steel Against the Sky

1941

As Music

House of Dracula

1945

As Original Music Composer

A Boy and His Dog

1946

As Music

Star in the Night

1945

As Music

A Fugitive from Justice

1940

As Original Music Composer

Story of a Dog

1945

As Music

Hitler Lives

1945

As Music

I Won't Play

1944

As Music

24 Hour Alert

1955

As Music

Phantom from Space

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Hidden Hand

1942

As Original Music Composer

Stormy, the Thoroughbred

1954

As Original Music Composer

The Mysterious Doctor

1943

As Original Music Composer

Grandad of Races

1950

As Music

Wyoming Outlaw

1939

As Music

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

1954

As Original Music Composer

Melody Ranch

1940

As Original Music Composer

Heart to Heart

1949

As Music

PT 109

1963

As Original Music Composer

Hare-Breadth Hurry

1963

As Music

Corn on the Cop

1965

As Original Music Composer

Chimp & Zee

1968

As Original Music Composer

Bugged by a Bee

1969

As Original Music Composer

Fistic Mystic

1969

As Original Music Composer

Shamrock and Roll

1969

As Original Music Composer

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

1969

As Original Music Composer

Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches

1968

As Original Music Composer

Devil's Feud Cake

1963

As Original Music Composer

3 Ring Wing-Ding

1968

As Original Music Composer

Big Game Haunt

1968

As Original Music Composer

The Mummy's Curse

1944

As Music

The Strange Door

1951

As Music

Mountain Rhythm

1939

As Original Music Composer

Blue Montana Skies

1939

As Original Music Composer

Mexicali Rose

1939

As Original Music Composer

The Black Castle

1952

As Music

Colt .45

1950

As Music

Billy The Kid Returns

1938

As Music

Dumb Patrol

1964

As Music

Let's Kill Uncle

1966

As Music

Continental Holiday

1952

As Music

Embraceable You

1948

As Music

Pickled Pink

1965

As Music

Mrs. Mike

1949

As Music

Busses Roar

1942

As Music

So You Want a Raise

1950

As Music

So You Want to Move

1950

As Music

Calgary Stampede

1948

As Music

Vitamin Pink

1966

As Music

New Frontier

1939

As Music Director

Santa Fe Stampede

1938

As Music

Flood Tide

1958

As Music

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra

1971

As Original Music Composer

In Enemy Country

1968

As Music

The Horse of the West

1957

As Music

Tease for Two

1965

As Original Music Composer

Three Texas Steers

1939

As Original Music Composer

Chamber of Horrors

1966

As Original Music Composer

The Iceman Ducketh

1964

As Original Music Composer

Five

1951

As Music

Fast Buck Duck

1963

As Original Music Composer

She-Wolf of London

1946

As Music Director

Retreat, Hell!

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Cat Creeps

1946

As Music

The Jungle Captive

1945

As Music

Pink Pajamas

1964

As Music

We Give Pink Stamps

1965

As Music

Dial 'P' for Pink

1965

As Music

Pink Punch

1966

As Music

The Pink Blueprint

1966

As Music

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

1951

As Original Music Composer

Sink Pink

1965

As Music

Shocking Pink

1965

As Music

Pink Ice

1965

As Music

The Pink Tail Fly

1965

As Music

An Ounce of Pink

1965

As Music

Pink Panzer

1965

As Music

Bully for Pink

1965

As Music

Pink Pistons

1966

As Music

Smile Pretty Say Pink

1966

As Music

Reel Pink

1965

As Music

The Night Riders

1939

As Music

Alaska Lifeboat

1956

As Music

The Tanks Are Coming

1951

As Music

False Hare

1964

As Music

Step Down to Terror

1958

As Music

Proudly We Serve

1944

As Music

Madonna of the Desert

1948

As Music

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