Mort Lindsey
Music Director, Composer
1923 – 2012
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Who was Mort Lindsey?
Mort Lindsey, was an orchestrator, composer, pianist, conductor and musical director for Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Pat Boone, and Merv Griffin.
He attended Newark Arts High School. He later attended Columbia University, earning a doctoral degree in music education.
Lindsey was a composer of motion picture scores including I Could Go On Singing, The Best Man, Real Life, Stolen Hours, Gay Purr-ee and Cats Don't Dance which he composed the song Tell Me Lies. He won an Emmy Award for Barbra Streisand in Central Park.
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- Born
- Mar 21, 1923
Newark - Also known as
- Mort Lindsay
- Morton Lippman
- Spouses
- Betty Bonney
(1955 - 2012/05/04)
- Betty Bonney
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Newark Arts High School
- Lived in
- Newark
- Died
- May 4, 2012
Malibu
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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