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John Cacavas was an American composer, conductor, and arranger. He was born on August 13, 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He studied at the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music.
Cacavas composed music for over 100 films and television shows, including the theme for the television series Kojak. He also wrote the music for the Broadway musicals The Me Nobody Knows and The Magic Show.
Cacavas was the recipient of numerous awards, including the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Feature Film Score for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction for the television special The Magic of David Copperfield V.
Cacavas died on April 30, 2014 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 83.
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composer,soundtrack,music_department |
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84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Born |
13 August, 1930 |
| Birthday |
13 August |
| Birthplace |
Aberdeen, SD |
| Date of death |
January 28, 2014 |
| Died Place |
Beverly Hills, CA |
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SD |
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John Cacavas Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is John Cacavas's Wife?
His wife is Bonetta Becker Cacavas (m. ?–2014)
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Bonetta Becker Cacavas (m. ?–2014) |
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Jennifer Jean Cacavas, John Cacavas, Lisa Cacavas |
John Cacavas Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Later in his career, Cacavas wrote the theme song for the 2005 video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The song, "March Popakov Remix", was sampled by DJ Danger Mouse and is used frequently in the game.
In his later years, Cacavas wrote and published his autobiography, entitled It's More than Do-Re-Mi: My Life in Music (2004). He lived in Beverly Hills, California and London, UK, with his wife, Bonetta Becker Cacavas. Among his pleasures was cooking and he was an accomplished chef. They had three children, Lisa, John and Jennifer, and three grandchildren, James Stewart, Eric and Alexander Cacavas.
While Cacavas has extensive credits in television he has comparatively few credits for film scores. His most notable works in film are two entries in the Airport series: Airport 1975 and Airport '77. As well as Horror Express he also composed the score for the Hammer film The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), which also starred Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and his other scores included Hangar 18 (1980), Gangster Wars (1981), Mortuary (1983), and They're Playing with Fire (1984).
His television credits are extensive, including scoring the series Hawaii Five-O, The Bionic Woman, Mrs. Columbo, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, as well as television movies, such as The Elevator (1974), Friendly Persuasion (1975), Murder at the World Series (1977), SST: Death Flight (1977), Superdome (1978), The Time Machine (1978) and the 1982 film The Executioner's Song, starring Tommy Lee Jones. Scoring music for the 1981 television movie Hellinger's Law reunited him with Kojak veteran and friend Telly Savalas, and Cacavas also went on to score Savalas's made for TV Dirty Dozen sequel movies The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988). His later television work included popular miniseries such as Jenny's War (1985), Confessional (1989) and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town in 2000.
After studying music, in the 1960s Cacavas and Osgood collaborated, including on US Senator Everett Dirksen's recording of Gallant Men, which won a Grammy Award for a spoken word performance. While working in London in the 1970s, Cacavas met actor Telly Savalas, who later helped him move into working on movie scores. Cacavas scored Savalas's 1972 cult horror film Horror Express, and he moved to Hollywood, where he began to compose scores for television series and movies produced for TV. His most noted scores were written for the series Kojak (1973-1978), for which he was the chief composer. For its 5th and final season in 1977-1978, Cacavas composed the show's second main title theme.
John Harry Cacavas (August 13, 1930 – January 28, 2014) was an American composer and conductor probably best known for his television scores, such as Kojak, and The Time Machine, for which he was the chief composer. He also composed Kojak's second main title theme for its 5th and final season in 1977-1978.
