Churchill Kohlman (January 28, 1906 – May 25, 1983) was an American songwriter who wrote Johnnie Ray's 1951 hit, "Cry" while working in a Pittsburgh dry cleaning factory as the night watchman.
Alexander was ordered by arbitrators to pay Kohlman $15,331.24 to settle the dispute in 1953.
[3] Kohlman wrote hundreds of other songs, but none achieved the success of "Cry".
After his success with "Cry", he was a correspondent for Prevue, a Chicago-based show-business magazine.
He died under the name Charles Kohlman of a heart attack in 1983, at 77 years old, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh.