Education
After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger and Arnold Schoenberg.
After the war, Markowitz studied music in Paris and under Arthur Honegger and Arnold Schoenberg.
He was the father of Kate Markowitz. As a Santa Monica High School student, Markowitz led a big band called Dick Allen and the Teenagers under the name Dick Allen. Following his graduation in 1943 he performed military service in World World War World War II Markowitz began film composing with the 1958 film Stakeout on Dope Street for director Irvin Kershner.
He collaborated again with Kernsher on the films The Young Captives, (1959), Hoodlum Priest (1961), and Face in the Rain (1963).
His other film scores included One Manitoba"s Way (1963), Business Riley"s Back in Town (1965), Wild Seed (1965), and the western films Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) and The Shooting (1966), which starred Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson. He again scored a well known Western television series when he replaced Dimitri Tiomkin in conducting the theme and background music to The Wild Wild West.
Keeping with the Western genre he scored the television movie (Scalplock) that spawned the series The Iron Horse as well as providing music for a variety of American television series and made for television movies such as Weekend of Terror (1970), Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976), Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976) and Death Carolina on the Freeway (1979). The Invaders
Business Riley"s Back in Town (television movie)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mission: Impossible
Mannix
Quincy, Mechanical Engineering
Police Story
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Columbo
Dynasty ( 2 episodes 1986 )
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