Jack Elliott

Birth : 1927-08-06, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Death : 2001-08-18

Movies

Sibling Rivalry
Original Music Composer
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..
Found Money
Music
Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Venice Medical
Original Music Composer
TV pilot for series centered around a beachfront clinic in the community of Venice, California.
The Day the Bubble Burst
Original Music Composer
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy
Music
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body
Music Director
John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.
The Jerk
Original Music Composer
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
The Solitary Man
Original Music Composer
A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wants a divorce and leaves him to construct a new life.
Just You and Me, Kid
Original Music Composer
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Sanctuary of Fear
Music
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
A Guide for the Married Woman
Original Music Composer
A seriocomic look at the life of Julie Walker. Bored with her marriage, and encouraged by her friends, she contemplates an affair. Fantasy and reality mix often, leading to complications and headaches.
Oh, God!
Original Music Composer
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa
Original Music Composer
An inventor develops a force field who his greedy boss plans to steal.
Delta County, USA
Original Music Composer
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Danger in Paradise
Music
A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.
Roger & Harry: The Mitera Target
Music
A millionaire hires a pair of private investigators, who specialize in recovering lost and stolen objects, to find his daughter, who has apparently been smuggled out of the country.
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
Original Music Composer
A man determined to impress his son--and show up his son's stepfather--decides to try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a record for staying the longest time on roller skates. (IMDb)
The Red Badge of Courage
Music
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.....
The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped
Music
So how can a swinging bachelor learn a lesson about love? As magazine publisher Michael Green celebrates his big 4-0, he finds a bikini-clad Sandy Benson wrapped in a big bow as a birthday present supposedly courtesy of his drinking buddies. After trading barbs with the former beauty pageant winner, they find they have an attraction of sorts and she sticks around. Romance abounds as this country girl goes looking for romance in the big city in a typical television romantic comedy fashion.
Get Christie Love!
Conductor
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
Get Christie Love!
Original Music Composer
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
What Are Best Friends For?
Original Music Composer
A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Conductor
Bing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars.
Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Music Arranger
Bing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars.
Jarrett
Music
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls TV Drama - Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker
The Bait
Original Music Composer
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
Birds of Prey
Music
Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. Harry goes into pursuit which leads to an exciting conclusion.
Every Man Needs One
Original Music Composer
A male chauvinist architect pressured into hiring a feminist as his assistant finds himself falling for her.
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Music
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
T.R. Baskin
Conductor
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
T.R. Baskin
Original Music Composer
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Music
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Pure Goldie
Music
A comedy/variety special hosted by Goldie Hawn featuring special guests Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Carson, Bob Dishy, and the Muppets.
The Feminist and the Fuzz
Original Music Composer
A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
Conductor
Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special
Music Arranger
Where’s Poppa?
Original Music Composer
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
The Comic
Original Music Composer
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Carousel
Conductor
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.