Perry Botkin Sr.

Movies

Murder by Contract
Original Music Composer
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
Pete Kelly's Blues
Tuxedo Band Member (uncredited)
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
Main Street to Broadway
Ukelele Player (uncredited)
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Abie's Irish Rose
Sound Director
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Birth of the Blues
Leo
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.