Bert Shefter

Birthday: May 15, 1902

Bert Shefter was a prime member of Hollywood's second tier of film composers. Although never as celebrated or widely recognized as such stars in the field as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, or Max Steiner, he was fully employed in film music, with over 70 scores to his credit amassed in a period of 25 years, from 1950 through 1975. He spent many of the prime years ...more