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- Londinium London in the Roman Empire
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- Life and Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
- Culture And Propaganda in World War II
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
John Leonard Morris (October 18, 1926 – January 25, 2018) was an American film, television, and Broadway composer, dance arranger, conductor, and trained concert pianist. He collaborated with filmmakers Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Morris (composer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Within the Shadow of the Tree: Dark Dreams — The Small One's Father2010
- Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition — Self2009
- Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie' — Self2009
- The Making of 'The Producers' — Self2002
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The scrobbles for John Morris can be attributed to at least two different individuals named John Morris. 1. John Leonard Morris (Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 18, 1926 - January 25, 2018) was an American film and television composer, best known for his work with filmmaker Mel Brooks. John Morris had a long career of composing music for Mel Brooks, starting in 1968 with The Producers which was Brooks' first film. Morris continued to write the scores and songs for most of Brooks' films. <a hre
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Morris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Elizabeth
- Place of death
- Red Hook
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Composer John Leonard Morris.jpg
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- Category:Films scored by John Morris
- date of birth
- 1926-10-18
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- date of death
- 2018-01-25
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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