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Albert Glasser Los Angeles, CA QCWA # 16745 Chapter 7 |
Musician, Composer, Orchestrator and Conductor.
A son of Joseph Glasser and Mary Esterman. He attended the University of Southern California on a scholarship in 1934 and began his career in Hollywood at Warner Brothers as a music copyist. At rock-bottom he continued upward by selling his talents uncredited to any producer or studio who was willing to toss pocket change his way. After paying his dues and honing his craft through a string of Roy Rogers and Cisco Kid westerns for Republic Pictures, he snagged his first screen credit for PRC's horror opus, "The Monster Maker" in 1944. From then on, Mr. Glasser emerged as a prolific artist; composing, scoring and conducting on various levels in the field of motion pictures, radio and later, television. From low-budget poverty row quickies to high-gloss M-G-M productions, he was quick and efficient. By this reputation, he worked on several films with independent producer Robert Lippert, the most memorable of these being "Rocketship X-M" in 1950, a collaboration with composer Ferde Grofénd Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman on theremin. Other noteworthy films include "Murder Is My Beat", directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and "Please Murder Me!" starring Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury. His legacy and cult status endures through his memorable music scores for many science fiction films, most of which were produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon: "Indestructible Man", "Monster from Green Hell", "Beginning of the End", "The Cyclops", The Amazing Colossal Man", "War of the Colossal Beast", "Earth vs. the Spider", "Attack of the Puppet People" and "Confessions of an Opium Eater" starring Vincent Price among others.