Neal HeftiFilmography

Born:: October 29, 1922 in Hastings, NE
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Alongside Nelson Riddle and Billy May (who, not coincidentally, also enjoyed frequent collaborations with Frank Sinatra), Neal Hefti qualified as one of the top American arranger-orchestrators of the post-WWII years. Born October 29, 1922, in Hastings, NE, Hefti entered the music world on a...Read More

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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Conspiracy of Terror

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Mixing humor and melodrama, this curiosity has a husband-and-wife detective duo investigating Satanic goings on in an American suburb, all the while bickering about their in-laws and other domestic problems. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Batiste, Oliver Steindecker, Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss, Renée Taylor

Synopsis: Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), the owner of successful seafood restaurant who is stuck in the depths of a mid-life crisis. Barney's marriage is no longer providing him with a sense of romantic adventure, and when he discovers his mother's apartment Read More

1972
The 500 Pound Jerk

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Alex Karras stars as a naive backwoods strong-man, whose acute ability to lift weights brings him to the attention of a slick sports promoter (James Franciscus). Karras is carefully groomed to compete in the 1972 Olympics; Franciscus gives him explicit instructions to flex his muscles, tote his Read More

1972
A New Leaf

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, William Redfield

Synopsis: Elaine May wrote and directed (credits May attempted to have removed after the studio made extensive cuts in the film) this dark and funny comedy about marriage, murder, and money. May also stars as Henrietta, a shy and clumsy wallflower, who is also heir to a large pile of money. Indigent playboy Read More

1971
The Moonshine War

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson, Will Geer

Synopsis: In this comedy drama set during the late Prohibition era, a federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted. He sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy, but just before they strike a deal, two ex-convicts frighten the buddy away. The creeps then Read More

1970
The Odd Couple

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau Read More

1968
P.J.

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

1968
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse, Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. Wealthy Madame Rosepettle (Rosalind Russell) and 25-year-old Jonathan (Robert Morse) arrive at the Port Royal Hotel on a tiny Caribbean Read More

1967
Barefoot in the Park

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, who made his screenwriting debut with this adaptation, Barefoot In The Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie Bratter (Jane Fonda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a Read More

1967
Lord Love a Duck

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in this quirky, dark-humored comedy. Roddy McDowall plays Alan Musgrave, an odd duck who immediately falls for the school's new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld). Read More

1966
Duel at Diablo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers

Synopsis: Frontier scout Jess Remsberg (James Garner) is crossing the desert when he spots a dead army scout and group of Apaches pursuing someone -- it turns out to be a white woman, Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson); he gets her away from them and returns her to her home and her husband Willard (Dennis Read More

1966
Batman

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders (Adam West and Burt Ward) are called in as a last resort when the criminal masterminds of the millennium team up to conquer Gotham City by turning the U.N. Security Council into Read More

1966
Boeing Boeing

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Christiane Schmidtmer, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: Marc Camoletti's popular stage farce Boeing Boeing is watered down and realigned into a Tony Curtis/Jerry Lewis vehicle. Curtis plays an American journalist living in Paris; Lewis is his goonish (but surprisingly restrained) buddy. Partial to stewardesses, Curtis manages to juggle the affections Read More

1965
Synanon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Alex Cord, Richard Conte

Synopsis: The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real rehab house in Santa Monica, California. The story centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who is having trouble following the strict rules of the Read More

1965
How to Murder Your Wife

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish Read More

1965
Harlow

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Michael Connors, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Of the two competing Jean Harlow biopics released in 1965, producer Joseph E. Levine's Harlow is the more slickly professional, though neither film is exactly a cinematic landmark. Carroll Baker plays 1930s "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow, who, in keeping with the portrait painted by biographer Read More

1965
Sex and the Single Girl

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Helen Gurley Brown's self-help best-seller was the nominal source for this Hollywood sex romp, directed by Richard Quine, co-scripted by Joseph Heller and David R. Schwartz, and starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Tony Curtis plays Bob Weston, a writer for the scandal sheet "Dirt," who is Read More

1964
The Kate Smith Show [TV Series]

Actors: Kate Smith, Neal Hefti, The Harry Simeone Chorus

1960
Jamboree

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Paul Carr, Kay Medford, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, David King-Wood

Synopsis: Jamboree adheres to the usual formula of late-1950s rock&roll films: A plethora of musical numbers linked together by the wispiest of plotlines. Kay Medford heads the cast as manipulative showbiz agent Grace Shaw. Hoping to land pop singer Pete Porter (Paul Carr), Grace connives to break up Pete's Read More

1957