Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin · Arts & Literature
Jazz and film composer; The Milagro Beanfield War (Academy Award 1988)
1934, Littleton, Colorado, USA
United States
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Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger and jazz pianist who won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Original Score for 'The Milagro Beanfield War' and co-founded the influential GRP Records. Across a long career he scored films such as 'On Golden Pond', 'Tootsie' and 'The Firm' and won multiple Grammy Awards. His father, Henri, was a violinist of Jewish ancestry who emigrated from Riga, Latvia, giving Grusin documented Jewish heritage on his father's side.
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Jazz and film composer; The Milagro Beanfield War (Academy Award 1988)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Academy Award for Best Scoring
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