Adolph Sender Charles Deutsch (20 October 1897 – 1 January 1980)[1] was a British-American composer, conductor and arranger.
Born in London, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1911, and settled in Buffalo, New York.
[1] For Broadway, he orchestrated Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer and George and Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English.
[1] He was nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show Boat,[1] for which he conducted the orchestra.
In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Nobody Lives Forever (1946), as well as Little Women (the 1949 adaptation), and the Billy Wilder comedies Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960).