George Antheil
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George Antheil

Jul 8, 1900 - Trenton, New Jersey, USA

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George Antheil (/ˈæntaɪl/; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century.

Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He wrote magazine articles (one accurately predicted the development and outcome of World War II), an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns.

In 1941 he developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes with actress Hedy Lamarr that used a code (stored on a punched paper tape) to synchronise random frequencies, referred to as frequency hopping, with a receiver and transmitter. This technique, which is now known as spread spectrum, is now widely used in telecommunications. This work led to them being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Movie2018Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr StorySelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Movie1950House by the RiverOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1951SiroccoOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1952The SniperOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1949Knock on Any DoorOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1940Angels Over BroadwayOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1950In a Lonely PlaceOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1949We Were StrangersOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1946Specter of the RoseOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1955DementiaMusicSound
Movie1936The PlainsmanMusicSound
Movie1955Not as a StrangerOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1946The Plainsman and the LadyMusicSound
Movie1956The WerewolfMusicSound
Movie1957The Giant ClawMusicSound
Movie1957The Pride and the PassionOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1924Ballet MécaniqueMusicSound
Movie1937Make Way for TomorrowOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1957The Young Don't CryOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1946That Brennan GirlOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1938The BuccaneerOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1949The Fighting KentuckianOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1947Repeat PerformanceOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1953The JugglerMusicSound
Movie1949Tokyo JoeOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1935Once in a Blue MoonMusicSound
Movie1952Actors and SinOriginal Music ComposerSound
Movie1935Harlem SketchesMusicSound
Movie2013PinballMusicSound