William Lava
Born: 1911-03-18 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1971-02-20
Known For: Sound
Biography
William "Bill" Benjamin Lava (March 18, 1911 – February 20, 1971) was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as that for the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 to 1969, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn, making him the last composer and arranger in the classic era of Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Filmography
1988
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters ... (Music)
1981
- The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie ... (Music)
1979
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ... (Music)
1978
- How Bugs Bunny Won the West ... (Music)
1974
- Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West ... (Music)
1971
- Dracula vs. Frankenstein ... (Original Music Composer)
- O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Rabbit, Run ... (Original Music Composer)
1969
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Great Carrot-Train Robbery ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shamrock and Roll ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bugged by a Bee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fistic Mystic ... (Original Music Composer)
1968
- In Enemy Country ... (Music)
- Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chubasco ... (Original Music Composer)
- See Ya Later Gladiator ... (Original Music Composer)
- Norman Normal ... (Original Music Composer)
- 3 Ring Wing-Ding ... (Original Music Composer)
- Skyscraper Caper ... (Original Music Composer)
- Big Game Haunt ... (Original Music Composer)
- Flying Circus ... (Original Music Composer)
- Feud with a Dude ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hippydrome Tiger ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chimp & Zee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brimstone, the Amish Horse ... (Music)
1967
- Congratulations It's Pink ... (Music)
- The Music Mice-Tro ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fiesta Fiasco ... (Original Music Composer)
- Merlin the Magic Mouse ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Spy Swatter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rodent to Stardom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Speedy Ghost to Town ... (Original Music Composer)
- Go Away Stowaway ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cool Cat ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- Chamber of Horrors ... (Original Music Composer)
- Snow Excuse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Let's Kill Uncle ... (Music)
- Pink Punch ... (Music)
- A-Haunting We Will Go ... (Original Music Composer)
- Napoleon Blown-Aparte ... (Music)
- Shot and Bothered ... (Original Music Composer)
- Out and Out Rout ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Astroduck ... (Original Music Composer)
- Clippety Clobbered ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Solid Tin Coyote ... (Original Music Composer)
- Smile Pretty, Say Pink ... (Music)
- Pink Pistons ... (Music)
- The Pink Blueprint ... (Music)
- Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat ... (Music)
- Vitamin Pink ... (Music)
- Mexican Mousepiece ... (Original Music Composer)
1965
- The Inspector ... (Compositor)
- Dial 'P' for Pink ... (Music)
- The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation ... (Music)
- The Wild Chase ... (Original Music Composer)
- An Ounce of Pink ... (Music)
- Pinkfinger ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shocking Pink ... (Music)
- Pink Ice ... (Music)
- Reel Pink ... (Music)
- Sink Pink ... (Music)
- Bully for Pink ... (Music)
- Corn on the Cop ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pickled Pink ... (Music)
- Boulder Wham! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Highway Runnery ... (Original Music Composer)
- Suppressed Duck ... (Original Music Composer)
- Just Plane Beep ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chaser on the Rocks ... (Original Music Composer)
- Go Go Amigo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tired and Feathered ... (Original Music Composer)
- Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pink Panzer ... (Music)
- Chili Corn Corny ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rushing Roulette ... (Original Music Composer)
- Well Worn Daffy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hairied and Hurried ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Pink Tail Fly ... (Music)
- We Give Pink Stamps ... (Music)
- Cats and Bruises ... (Original Music Composer)
- Moby Duck ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tease for Two ... (Original Music Composer)
1964
- The Pink Phink ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nuts and Volts ... (Original Music Composer)
- War and Pieces ... (Music)
- Señorella and the Glass Huarache ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pink Pajamas ... (Music)
- False Hare ... (Music)
- Dumb Patrol ... (Music)
- Pancho's Hideaway ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Iceman Ducketh ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Message to Gracias ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bartholomew Versus the Wheel ... (Original Music Composer)
- Road to Andalay ... (Original Music Composer)
1963
- PT 109 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hare-Breadth Hurry ... (Music)
- Wall of Noise ... (Original Music Composer)
- To Beep or Not to Beep ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Buck Duck ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mad as a Mars Hare ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Million Hare ... (Original Music Composer)
- Transylvania 6-5000 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Devil's Feud Cake ... (Original Music Composer)
- Greta, the Misfit Greyhound ... (Music)
- Now Hear This ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unmentionables ... (Music)
- Aqua Duck ... (Music)
- Banty Raids ... (Music)
- Chili Weather ... (Original Music Composer)
1962
- Sancho, the Homing Steer ... (Songs)
- Martian Through Georgia ... (Original Music Composer)
1960
- Seven Ways from Sundown ... (Music)
- Hell Bent for Leather ... (Original Music Composer)
- Moochie of Pop Warner Football ... (Music)
1959
- The Twilight Zone ... (Music)
- Zorro, the Avenger ... (Original Music Composer)
1958
- Step Down to Terror ... (Music)
- Flood Tide ... (Music)
- Rusty and the Falcon ... (Music)
1957
- The Deadly Mantis ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl in the Kremlin ... (Music)
- The Best Doggoned Dog in the World ... (Music)
- The Horse of the West ... (Music)
- The Wetback Hound ... (Music)
1956
- Pillars of the Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Corky and White Shadow ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Adventure in Dairyland ... (Theme Song Performance)
- The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure ... (Music)
- So Your Wife Wants to Work ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be Pretty ... (Music)
- Alaska Lifeboat ... (Music)
1955
- Revenge of the Creature ... (Original Music Composer)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops ... (Music)
- 24 Hour Alert ... (Music)
- Cult of the Cobra ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Want a Model Railroad ... (Music)
1954
- Saskatchewan ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stormy, the Thoroughbred ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Want to Know Your Relatives ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beauty and the Bull ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- Phantom from Space ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Want to Learn to Dance ... (Music)
- So You Think You Can't Sleep ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Musician ... (Music)
1952
- Retreat, Hell! ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Black Castle ... (Music)
- Continental Holiday ... (Music)
- So You Want to Go to a Convention ... (Music)
- So You Want to Wear the Pants ... (Music)
- So You Want to Enjoy Life ... (Music)
- So You Never Tell a Lie ... (Music)
1951
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man ... (Music)
- Five ... (Music)
- Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Strange Door ... (Music)
- Hollywood Story ... (Additional Music)
- The Tanks Are Coming ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Cowboy ... (Sound)
- So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Plumber ... (Music)
1950
- Colt .45 ... (Music)
- Barricade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Highway 301 ... (Original Music Composer)
- This Side of the Law ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Grass Is Always Greener ... (Music)
- So You Think You're Not Guilty ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Want to Hold Your Husband ... (Music)
- My Country 'Tis of Thee ... (Music)
- So You Want to Move ... (Music)
- Grandad of Races ... (Music)
- So You Want a Raise ... (Music)
1949
- The House Across the Street ... (Original Music Composer)
- Homicide ... (Original Music Composer)
- Flaxy Martin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mrs. Mike ... (Music)
- Heart to Heart ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be an Actor ... (Music)
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Muscle Man ... (Music)
- The Columbia: America's Greatest Power Stream ... (Music)
1948
- Moonrise ... (Original Music Composer)
- Embraceable You ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Gambler ... (Music)
- Madonna of the Desert ... (Music)
- So You Want an Apartment ... (Music)
- So You Want to Build a House ... (Music)
- The Big Punch ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Want to Be a Detective ... (Original Music Composer)
- Calgary Stampede ... (Music)
1947
- So You Want to Be in Pictures ... (Music)
- So You're Going to Be a Father ... (Music)
- So You Want to Be a Salesman ... (Music)
- So You're Going on a Vacation ... (Music)
- So You Want to Hold Your Wife ... (Music)
- Give Us the Earth! ... (Music)
1946
- She-Wolf of London ... (Original Music Composer)
- Smart as a Fox ... (Music)
- A Boy and His Dog ... (Music)
- The Cat Creeps ... (Music)
1945
- House of Dracula ... (Original Music Composer)
- To Have and Have Not ... (Additional Music)
- The Jungle Captive ... (Music)
- Star in the Night ... (Music)
- Story of a Dog ... (Music)
- Secret Agent X-9 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hitler Lives ... (Music)
- So You Think You're Allergic ... (Music)
1944
- The Invisible Man's Revenge ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mummy's Curse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Crime by Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Won't Play ... (Music)
- I Am an American ... (Music)
- Make Your Own Bed ... (Additional Music)
- Once Over Lightly ... (Original Music Composer)
- Proudly We Serve ... (Music)
1943
- Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mysterious Doctor ... (Original Music Composer)
- Women at War ... (Original Music Composer)
- Food and Magic ... (Music)
- Happy Times and Jolly Moments ... (Music)
1942
- Spy Ship ... (Original Music Composer)
- Escape from Crime ... (Original Music Composer)
- Busses Roar ... (Music)
- Murder in the Big House ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hidden Hand ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Was Framed ... (Original Music Composer)
1941
- Steel Against the Sky ... (Music)
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough ... (Music)
- Highway West ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Shot in the Dark ... (Original Music Composer)
- Law of the Tropics ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Nurse's Secret ... (Original Music Composer)
1940
- A Fugitive from Justice ... (Original Music Composer)
- Melody Ranch ... (Original Music Composer)
- Adventures of Red Ryder ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gangs of Chicago ... (Original Music Composer)
- Murder in the Air ... (Music)
- The Courageous Dr. Christian ... (Original Music Composer)
1939
- Dick Tracy's G-Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle ... (Original Music Composer)
- New Frontier ... (Music Director)
- Three Texas Steers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blue Montana Skies ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wyoming Outlaw ... (Music)
- The Night Riders ... (Music)
- Mountain Rhythm ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again ... (Original Music Composer)
- In Old Monterey ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mexicali Rose ... (Original Music Composer)
1938
- Santa Fe Stampede ... (Music)
- Hawk of the Wilderness ... (Original Music Composer)
- Red River Range ... (Music)
- Come On, Leathernecks! ... (Music)
- Billy The Kid Returns ... (Music)
- Western Jamboree ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tenth Avenue Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
- Come On, Rangers ... (Original Music Composer)