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Fred Karlin

Highest Rated: 100% Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

Lowest Rated: 36% Futureworld (1976)

Birthday: Jun 16, 1936

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Academy Award-winning musician Fred Karlin made quite a career for himself. Karlin began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like the Sandy Dennis dramatic adaptation "Up the Down Staircase" (1967), the Lucille Ball comedy adaptation "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and the Gregory Peck adaptation "The Stalking Moon" (1968). He followed this honor with songs in "Cover Me Babe" (1970) and "Lovers and Other Strangers" (1970) with Bonnie Bedelia. Karlin won an Academy Award for "The Sterile Cuckoo" in 1969. In the seventies and the eighties, Karlin's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like "Mean Dog Blues" (1978), "California Dreaming" (1979) and the action film "Ravagers" (1979) with Richard Harris. His work was also in "Attack of the Phantoms" (1980). Karlin's music was most recently used in the John Leguizamo comedy "The Pest" (1997). Karlin was nominated for a Music (Original Song Score) Academy Award for "The Baby Maker" in 1970 as well as for a Music (Song--Original For the Picture) Academy Award for "The Little Ark" in 1972. Karlin won a Music (Song--Original For the Picture) Academy Award for "Lovers and Other Strangers" in 1970 as well as a Best Music Composition Primetime Emmy Award for "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" in 1974. Karlin passed away in March 2004 at the age of 68.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 74% Lovers and Other Strangers
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57% 80% Yours, Mine and Ours
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36% 30% Futureworld
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Mastermind
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0% Baby Sister
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63% Miracle on Ice
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21% Loving Couples
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50% Leadbelly
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56% Born Innocent
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The Gravy Train
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Filmography

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Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story 1993 Original Music Strawberry Road 1991 Music Score Murder C.O.D. 1990 Original Music Lady Mobster 1988 Original Music Night Partners 1983 Original Music Policewoman Centerfold 80% 1983 Original Music Baby Sister 0% 1983 Original Music The First Time 1982 Original Music Miracle on Ice 63% 1981 Original Music Loving Couples 21% 1980 Original Music Ravagers 1979 Original Music And Baby Makes Six 1979 Original Music The Last Giraffe 1979 Original Music The Gift of Love 80% 1978 Original Music Mean Dog Blues 1978 Original Music Intimate Strangers 1977 Original Music Greased Lightning 51% 1977 Original Music The Hostage Heart 1977 Original Music Baby Blue Marine 1976 Original Music Futureworld 36% 30% 1976 Original Music Leadbelly 50% 1975 Original Music Punch and Jody 1974 Music Mixed Company 60% 1974 Original Music Born Innocent 56% 1974 Original Music The Spikes Gang 45% 1974 Original Music
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