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Also known as Frederick James Karlin

American songwriter (1936–2004)

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Fred Karlin (1936–2004) was an American composer, songwriter, film score composer, and film editor. Born in Chicago and educated at Amherst College, he worked in the field of music and spoke English. He died in Culver City.

Karlin received an Emmy Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was nominated for the latter. He is recognized in the Grammy Winners collection. His notable works include *Great Film Scores*, *Listening to movies*, and *On the Track*. His music is associated with soundtracks, film music, jazz, and scores.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Great Film Scores
  • Listening to movies
  • On the Track

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,521
Total plays
15,233

Tags

Soundtrackcomposerfilm musicjazzscore

Frederick James "Fred" Karlin (June 16, 1936 - March 26, 2004) was an American composer of more than one hundred scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and medieval music. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he studied jazz composition with William Russo and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, where he wrote his String Quartet No. 2 as his honors thesis. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fred

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Fred
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
Culver City
Occupation
film editor
Educated at
Amherst College
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
music
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date of birth
1936-06-16
date of death
2004-03-26
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