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