Eduard Ingriš

[1] During a long and varied career, he arranged the "Beer Barrel Polka"; composed the operetta The Capricious Mirror; and worked on films including Jungle Sabotage and The Old Man and the Sea as a cameraman.

Born in Zlonice in Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic), Ingriš left Czechoslovakia in 1947 for South America, living in Brazil and Peru.

The piece was brought to England by Czech pilots flying for the Royal Air Force, became an overnight hit there, and subsequently was popularized in America.

At nineteen he composed the operetta "The Capricious Mirror", which played five years in Prague — a record-setting 1,600 performances (surpassing records of New York's Broadway).

For Movius Productions (Hollywood), he filmed "Jungle Sabotage", a movie starring Pilar Pallete, wife of actor John Wayne.