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