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