Denny Zeitlin (born 10 April 1938, Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz pianist and composer, and a clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 35 albums, including more than 100 original compositions, and was a first-place winner of the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll in 1965 and 1974. In 2014, JazzTimes contributor Andrew Gilbert wrote that "by any measure, Zeitlin's creative output over the past 50 years places him at jazz's creative zenith."
Was so worn out by the work he put into Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), on which he worked over four weeks' worth of 20-hour days, that he vowed that he would never write another film score. Because of the accolades and praise that the highly unusual and innovative score received, he was given many offers to do many more film scores, but he refused them all.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Deceived
1991
writer: "And Then I Wondered If You Knew"
Sesame Street
1969-1973
TV Series writer - 4 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1964
TV Series
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Scoring the Invasion with Denny Zeitlin
2016
Video documentary short
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1965
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Known for movies
Sesame Street as Soundtrack
Deceived (1991) as Soundtrack
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) as Composer
Scoring the Invasion with Denny Zeitlin (2016) as Himself
$13 Million
