Rudy Schrager
Rudolph "Rudy" Noachim Schrager (28 August 1900 – 24 August 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American composer, conductor, pianist, and organist. A native of Czernowitz, Bukovina, he immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was approximately 12 years old and spent his teenage years living in The Bronx. He was educated at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He lived most of his life in L. A. and worked as a composer and conductor for radio, television, and film. His first film score was for the 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936) which he co-composed with Charles Previn. He was a prolific film composer during the 1940s into the year 1950; crafting works both alone and with others for most of the studios in Hollywood.
After 1950 Shrager predominantly worked in television after being appointed music director of Lux Video Theatre which he led for much of the 1950s. He had previously worked on the radio program that series was adapted from, Lux Radio Theatre, from 1936 until the creation of the TV series. He was also known for his work as the pianist, organist, and composer for the radio drama Box 13 (1948–1949). In his later career he worked as a staff composer for Four Star Television. His other TV work included contributions to many American Western shows. He won a Western Heritage Award in 1965 for his work as a composer for the television series Rawhide.
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