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