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Bob Cobert
Robert W. Cobert (October 26, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an American composer of film and television scores. He is best known for his work with producer/director Dan Curtis, notably the scores for
Robert W. Cobert (October 26, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an American composer of film and television scores. He is best known for his work with producer/director Dan Curtis, notably the scores for the ABC gothic fiction soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71) and the TV mini-series The Winds of War (1983) and its sequel War and Remembrance (1988), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. Together, the latter two scores constitute the longest film music ever written for a film. Early years Cobert was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. and wrote songs for bandleader Freddy Martin and jazz singer Frances Wayne. and the two tie-in feature films House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971). Cobert composed the scores for the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, the sequel The Night Strangler (1973), and the offshoot 1974–75 television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. His other scores include the horror films Burnt Offerings (1976) and Scalpel (1977), the comedy film Me and the Kid (1993), and the television movies The Norliss Tapes (1973), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974), Scream of the Wolf (1974), Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974) and the 1975 sequel The Kansas City Massacre
- Era
- Post-War
- Lived
- 1924–2020
- From
- United States
- Born in
- New York City · died Palm Desert
- Known as
- composer, film score composer, music arranger, record producer
- Instruments
- drum kit, percussion instrument