Les Baxter
Sound · Original Music Composer · Music · Conductor
Born Mar 14, 1922
Active 1954–1996 · Awards: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over 250 radio,…
Filmography
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) — Original Music ComposerHouse of Usher (1960) — Original Music ComposerX: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) — Original Music ComposerTales of Terror (1962) — Original Music ComposerThe Raven (1963) — Original Music ComposerThe Comedy of Terrors (1964) — Original Music Composer · ConductorThe Premature Burial (1962) — Additional MusicPanic in Year Zero! (1962) — Original Music ComposerSwitchblade Sisters (1975) — Original Music ComposerAn Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970) — Conductor · Original Music ComposerMaster of the World (1961) — MusicThe Terror (1963) — MusicThe Beast Within (1982) — Original Music ComposerThe Dunwich Horror (1970) — Original Music ComposerThe Black Sleep (1956) — Original Music ComposerFrogs (1972) — Original Music ComposerMacabre (1958) — Original Music ComposerFall Girl (1961) — Music · CompositorBeach Party (1963) — Original Music ComposerCry of the Banshee (1970) — Original Music Composer · ConductorThe Girl in Black Stockings (1957) — Original Music ComposerBeach Blanket Bingo (1965) — MusicBorn Again (1978) — Original Music ComposerRevolt at Fort Laramie (1957) — Original Music Composer