John Cacavas

John Cacavas

Nascimento : 1930-08-13, Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA

Morte : 2014-01-28

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Harry Cacavas (August 13, 1930 – January 28, 2014) was an American composer and conductor probably best known for his television scores, such as Kojak, for which he was the chief composer. He also composed the show's second main title theme for its 5th and final season in 1977-1978.

Perfil

John Cacavas

Filmes

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Original Music Composer
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
The Return of Ironside
Sound
After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.
Margaret Bourke-White
Original Music Composer
A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.
Os Doze Condenados: Missão Fatal
Music
Um grupo de soldados renegados da Segunda Guerra Mundial tentar evitar a constituição do IV Reich. Quarto filme da série, precedido por "Os Doze Condenados (1967)", "Os Doze Condenados - Nova Missão (1985)" e "Os Doze Condenados: Missão Mortal (1987)". O único filme Dirty Dozen a contar com um membro feminino entre os doze, a Tenente Carol Campbell. Ernest Borgnine é o único membro do elenco a aparecer nos quatro filmes.
Body of Evidence
Music
Nurse Carol Dwyer suspects that her new husband Alex, a forensic psychologist, may be responsible for serial murders in their neighborhood.
Os Doze Condenados - Missão Mortal
Music
O general Worden (Ernest Borgnine) ordena ao major Wright (Telly Savalas) que selecione e treine 12 condenados à morte ou sentenças longas para uma missão suicida, em que os participantes serão perdoados se a concluírem. A missão consiste em destruir o estoque de um gás paralisante e mortal, que os nazistas esconderam em um mosteiro em Saint Michel, na França. O local não pode ser bombardeado, pois lá também se encontram 6 cientistas, que vieram de países invadidos pelos alemães. Se destruir o gás e resgatar os cientistas era difícil tudo fica bem mais complicado ao saberem que houve algum tipo de vazamento, que provocou a morte de um agente inglês e do líder da resistência local. Em razão disto o espaço aéreo está sendo mais vigiado, o que obriga Wright e seus comandados a chegarem em Saint Michel por outro caminho.
A Time to Triumph
Music
Crime ou Loucura
Music
Um jovem casal emigra da Polonia para os EUA, mas as coisas não vão tão bem como eles imaginavam.
Brincando com Fogo
Original Music Composer
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
Women of San Quentin
Music
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Mortuary
Songs
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes it was murder. Christie then sees an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul. Both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But, who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?
Mortuary
Original Music Composer
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes it was murder. Christie then sees an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul. Both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But, who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?
Still the Beaver
Original Music Composer
This movie reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver. Their father Ward has passed away. Wally's married to Mary Ellen and a successful lawyer and has everything to make his life complete except for a child. The Beaver is married but unfortunately is still the same which is why his wife threw him out. With nowhere else to go, he goes home. And he also decides that he wants to raise his children, in his hometown of Mayfield. His wife, who decides that she hasn't done anything in her life, decides to become a veterinarian, but she can only go to school out of the country, so she let's Beaver have the children. So he brings his sons there and they are not exactly impressed with Mayfield and feel that they were dumped there, and bond more with Wally than with their own father. They also have to deal with Eddie Haskell, who has gone from nasty to crooked. It's a good thing they still have their mom.
A Canção do Carrasco
Original Music Composer
A história de Gary Gilmore, um assassino condenado que fez lobby por sua própria execução.
Silent Rebellion
Music
A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other. Cross-cultural misunderstandings abound; could have been interesting, but the story is just too generic and uninspired.
Child Bride of Short Creek
Music
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
California Gold Rush
Original Music Composer
Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.
Separate Ways
Original Music Composer
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Gangster Wars
Music
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Hellinger's Law
Music
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
A Fuga Eterna
Original Music Composer
A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questioned by her stepmother, the family attorney, and even a psychiatrist.
Era Uma Vez um Espião
Original Music Composer
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
Hangar 18
Original Music Composer
Durante uma missão de rotina, um satélite colide com um OVNI, que faz um pouso de emergência no deserto do Arizona. O governo americano age rápido para encobrir o fato, pois a eleição se aproxima e o presidente teme que o pânico se espalhe e prejudique sua reeleição. Enquanto a nave é escondida no Hangar 18, dois astronautas, Bancroff e Price, recebem a culpa pelo incidente, e começam a investigar o caso para trazer a verdade à tona.
The Time Machine
Original Music Composer
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Um Anjo em Apuros
Original Music Composer
Heavenly Mrs. G. (Nancy Walker) will level Las Vegas if an angel (Billy Crystal) cannot find six good people there within a week.
B.J. and the Bear
Music
In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
Superdome
Music
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Relentless
Original Music Composer
An Arizona state trooper, who is also an Indian, pursues a gang of paramilitary-type robbers into the mountains. The gang has killed the trooper's uncle and taken a woman hostage, and the trooper must use his tracking and hunting skills to find the gang and rescue the hostage.
Murder at the World Series
Music Supervisor
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.
Aeroporto 77
Original Music Composer
Em uma viagem para Palm Beach, onde vai inaugurar um museu composto de peças da sua coleção particular, o magnata Philip Stevens transporta em seu luxuoso Jumbo 747 a sua coleção de arte, tendo seus amigos como convidados. Mas o avião é sequestrado, sofre um acidente e cai no oceano, ficando submerso em águas rasas. Será que a tripulação e os passageiros conseguirão escapar antes que o avião seja invadido totalmente pela água do mar?
SST: Death Flight
Music
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Friendly Persuasion
Music
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
Aeroporto 75
Original Music Composer
Um pequeno avião particular se choca com um 747 e acaba matando ou incapacitando a tripulação. Uma aeromoça, seguindo instruções de rádio, assume o comando da aeronave. É então elaborado um plano quase suicida em que, através de um buraco na cabine de comando, um piloto é enviado para resgatar o avião.
The Elevator
Original Music Composer
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elevator that is teetering on collapse.
Blade
Original Music Composer
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
Linda
Music
A woman kills her lover's wife, then sets out to frame her husband for the murder.
Os Ritos Satânicos de Drácula
Original Music Composer
Londres, 1974. O professor Van Helsing é chamado ao serviço de inteligência britânico para tentar desvendar o desaparecimento de cinco importantes oficiais do serviço secreto. Sua neta Jessica, juntamente com o inspetor Murray, são seqüestrados por um bando de motoqueiros a serviço de um bilionário recluso, D. D. Denham, que nunca é visto a luz do dia. Desesperado em salvar sua neta e o inspetor, Van Helsing entra na mansão maldita de Denham e descobre uma terrível realidade: ele é a reencarnação do Conde Drácula, o mais terrível vampiro da história. Esta é a versão inédita sem cortes e remasterizada da famosa produção da Hammer Films, de 1973.
She Cried Murder
Music
Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the presumption that the woman committed suicide, Sarah contacts the police. But when they arrive to take her statement, she recognizes one of the detectives as the killer. Can she get anyone to believe her before she becomes his next victim?
O Expresso do Horror
Original Music Composer
Uma expedição organizada por uma sociedade geológica britânica na Manchúria, em 1906, liderada pelo Prof. Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee), descobre uma criatura congelada que pode ter milhões de anos. O antropólogo encaixota seu achado e embarca num trem trans-siberiano de volta à Europa. Porém, o monstro desperta e espalha o terror durante a viagem de trem, sugando o conhecimento de suas vítimas e deixando-as com os olhos brancos, enquanto torna-se uma ameaça cada vez mais perigosa.