Herman Fuchs Explained

Herman Fuchs
Birth Name:	Herman Samuel Fuchs
Birth Date:	10 December 1900
Birth Place:	New York City
Death Date:	November 1967 (age 66)
Death Place:	New York
Occupation:	violinist
Nationality:	American

Herman Samuel Fuchs (10 December 1900 – November 1967) was a violinist who provided music for the Frank Buck movie Jungle Cavalcade.^[1]

Early years

Herman Fuchs was the son of Harry Fuchs, the proprietor of a laundry, and Gussie Fuchs. Harry and Gussie immigrated from Bessarabia, October 1887. Herman was born at 137 Essex Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and later lived in Brooklyn (234 Rodney Street), according to his 1922 passport application. Herman Fuchs studied with the conductor Josiah Zuro, worked with Hugo Riesenfeld, and attended Fordham University to understand copyright law.^[2]

Career

Fuchs became music editor for Pathé News in 1927. He composed for many films, among them The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) and When Comedy was King (1960). He also composed for television, including five episodes of The Patty Duke Show.^{[3] [4]}

Work with Frank Buck

In 1941, Fuchs, together with Nathaniel Shilkret,^[5] composed music for the Frank Buck movie Jungle Cavalcade.

Later life

Fuchs died aged 66 in New York.

Notes and References

1. Book: Lehrer , Steven . Bring 'Em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck . Texas Tech University press . 2006 . x-xi . 0-89672-582-0 .
2. Interest in music growing rapidly, says Herman Fuchs of Pathé News. Box Office Magazine. October 14, 1944, p 24
3. The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures Produced in the United States, Feature Films 1941-1950. American Film Institute - 1971 p 745
4. Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward. Film noir: an encyclopedic reference to the American style. Overlook Press 1992
5. Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005, pp. 293--294.