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Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim. For his work, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Born Paul Misrachi in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) into a French Jewish family of Italian descent, Misraki showed an early aptitude for music. He went to Paris to study classical composition, and by the 1930s had become an established jazz pianist, arranger, and writer of popular songs; around this time he began composing film scores, with his first known work being for Jean Renoir's first sound film, On purge bébé (Baby's Laxative, 1931), for which he was not credited. Like Renoir, Misraki fled France during the World War II German occupation. After a brief stay in Argentina, Misraki ended up in Hollywood, where he composed the music to all of Renoir's American films. After the war, Misraki returned to France, working busily throughout the 1950s, a period when he was routinely scoring half a dozen or more films a year. These included numerous films by Yves Allégret and Jean Boyer, as well as two films by Jacques Becker, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs, 1954) and Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955). The 1960s saw Misraki slow down slightly, writing only 2–3 scores a year. During this period, he worked with many of the leading French directors of the period, including Jean-Luc Godard on Alphaville (1965), Jean-Pierre Melville on Le Doulos (1963) and Claude Chabrol, for whom he scored several films. Misraki composed intermittently throughout the last two decades of his life. He composed his last score at age 85; by this point he had been working almost exclusively in television for several years. He died of natural causes at age 90 in Paris. Misraki first found acclaim as a composer and lyricist of popular songs. His first hit was 1935's "Tout va très bien madame la marquise," and during his careers in France, America and Argentina he wrote successful songs in French, English and Spanish. In 1998, at the age of 90 years, Misraki collaborates with Singer Raquel Bitton on her American tribute to his songs in a CD entitled In a Jazzy mood. ... Source: Article "Paul Misraki" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-01-28
- event Death Date 1998-10-29
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 0.6
- info Birth Place Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Paul Misraki
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Whirlwind of Paris
1939-12-15
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Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16
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La Chance aux chansons
1984-03-26
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Système 2
1975-01-19
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The Cousins
1959-03-11
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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961-10-25
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Alphaville
1965-05-05
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...And God Created Woman
1956-11-28
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The Good Girls
1960-04-22
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Obsession
1954-10-28
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Clash of Steel
1962-10-18
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Oasis
1955-03-18
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No Pity for Women
1950-08-30
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976-01-07
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Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
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À double tour
1959-12-04
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Other Side of Paradise
1953-07-19
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Manon
1949-03-09
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L'assassin connaît la musique
1963-10-16
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The Fighting Musketeers
1961-10-04
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A Murder Is a Murder
1972-08-23
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Utopia
1951-10-17
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Crazy for Love
1952-11-07
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
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Closed Shutters
1973-02-01
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Heartbeat
1946-05-01
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The Arrest
1975-01-01
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Return at Dawn
1938-11-18
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Beating Heart
1940-02-01
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Le Doulos
1962-12-13
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Desperate Decision
1952-10-01
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Death in the Garden
1956-09-21
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
1948-01-30
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All Roads Lead to Rome
1949-09-16
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Thunderstorm
1956-02-06
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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
1968-01-01
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Passport to Rio
1948-09-09
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Monte Carlo Baby
1951-11-22
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The Irony of Money
1957-01-07
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I Was an Adventuress
1938-12-21
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Jack and Jenny
1963-12-25
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Eclipse de sol
1943-07-01
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El fin de la noche
1944-11-01
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Navidad de los pobres
1947-08-12
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Siete mujeres
1944-03-30
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Women Are Weak
1959-02-11
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The Gamblers
1950-12-20
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Claudine at School
1937-12-15
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Ladies' Man
1962-03-21
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Baby's Laxative
1931-06-21
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Les Fanatiques
1957-11-08
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Fortune carrée
1955-03-16
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Dangerous Games
1958-12-12
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Way of Youth
1959-09-23
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
1957-05-24
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La importancia de ser ladrón
1944-07-28
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The Little Rebels
1955-10-21
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Mr. Arkadin
1955-08-09
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1954-12-24
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Stress
1984-09-19
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Young Love
1951-11-14
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Attack of the Robots
1966-04-27
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957-09-11
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We Will Go to Deauville
1962-12-24
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959-12-05
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The Proud and the Beautiful
1953-11-25
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Young Girls Beware
1957-07-04
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She and Me
1952-12-31
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Les Dents longues
1953-03-15
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Bloody Murder
1974-03-06
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Maigret Sets a Trap
1958-01-29
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The Moment of Truth
1952-10-22
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958-04-04
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The Best Part
1955-12-30
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Beautiful Star
1938-11-24
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The Lebanese Mission
1956-09-12
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Stella
1943-10-08
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Sans famille
1958-01-01
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
1956-04-13