Buttolph, David  (1902)

  Composer. But-tolph reached Hollywood in the mid-30S. He had studied music in New York and Vienna, worked in night clubs in Vienna and Munich, and coached opera in Munich. He became music director at Fox and later at Warners,  and  from 1940  onwards  com?posed scores for over 100 films. John Ford's The Horse Soldiers is an excellent example of his work. Buttolph weaves the lively and the sombre,  marching music and  Stan Jones' cavalry songs, into a pattern which illumi?nates but never intrudes, ju As music director: The Return oj Frank James