Composer, conductor, pianist and author Ronald Stein was educated at Washington University (BA), the Yale School of Music and the University of Southern California. In college he wrote musical shows. He was named the assistant musical director for the St. Louis Municipal Opera in 1950, 1951 and 1954. He served in the US Army Special Services at ...
April 12, 1930, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died
August 15, 1988, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Profession
Composer, Music Department, Soundtrack
Children
Victor Warren
Parents
Cecilia Stein
Albums
Getting Straight, Not of This Earth! The Film Music of Ronald Stein
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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I usually go to the theater to see the films that I've scored just to see if what I've accomplished came out the way it should be for the effect on the audience. The first night The Haunted Palace (1963) came out, I went to a small theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and I was sitting toward the back, and in front of me was sitting a little girl and what looked like her parents on either side. And I don't know if there was too much theme, but about the last time Vincent Price walks down the hall and while he was doing that the theme came in again . . . to me, like a classic Frankenstein (1931) type of romantic theme, with Tchaikovskian overtones . . . and there's no dialogue, and it's about the third time you've heard that theme, and the little girl said out loud, "Oh, that music!" Well, that made my evening because she meant it in a kind of excruciatingly electrifying or exotic way.
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I treated every project that I've ever worked on--and some of them have been fairly miserable--with the greatest of respect. My question to myself, always, in any work I've done, was that my contribution had to be equal to or greater than anyone else's individual contribution. That's always been the way I've approached it. This is also the way I treated it, budget-wise: never wasting money, even if I wasn't paying for it. I treated it with a great deal of respect, first of all because the medium, to me, deserved it; and secondly, because the cooperation of all the people involved in order to get a film mounted is important.
Stein and Les Baxter were staff composers at American International Pictures for several years, but never actually met, according to Baxter in a 1981 interview. Eight AIP movies had co-scores by Stein and Baxter.
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He is an alumnus of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
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At mid-century Stein, as a young hopeful film composer, wrote to the various music department heads at the film studios in search of advice or suggestions. He received only one reply, and that from Lionel Newman at 20th Century-Fox, who said simply: "Don't come.".
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
ZuZu, Queen of the Monsters
2007
Video
The Naked Monster
2005
The Crawling Brain
2002
Video
Vincent Price: My Life and Crimes
1994
Video documentary
Age of Consent
1985
as Leonard Morand
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984
Ghosts That Still Walk
1977
Prisoners
1975
Getting Straight
1970
The Rain People
1969
Psych-Out
1968
Creature of Destruction
1967
TV Movie uncredited
Mars Needs Women
1967
TV Movie uncredited
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
1967
Curse of the Swamp Creature
1966
TV Movie uncredited
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
1966
TV Movie uncredited
Blood Bath
1966
Attack of the Eye Creatures
1965
TV Movie uncredited
Portrait in Terror
1965
Rat Fink
1965
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
1965
The Bounty Killer
1965
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965
Usei shônen popi
1965
TV Series 1965
The Parisienne and the Prudes
1964
The Littlest Hobo
1963
TV Series 1 episode
Dementia 13
1963
Of Love and Desire
1963
The Haunted Palace
1963
The Young and the Brave
1963
The Terror
1963
Dime with a Halo
1963
Stakeout!
1962
La guerra continua
1962
US version
The Underwater City
1962
Journey to the Seventh Planet
1962
US version
Premature Burial
1962
The Bashful Elephant
1962
War Is Hell
1961
Devil's Partner
1961
Atlas
1961
Guns of the Black Witch
1961
US version
Dinosaurus!
1960
Last Woman on Earth
1960
as Ronald S. Stein
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
uncredited
Raymie
1960
The Girl in Lovers Lane
1960
The Threat
1960
Too Soon to Love
1960
The Legend of Tom Dooley
1959
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
1959
The Diary of a High School Bride
1959
Tank Commandos
1959
Paratroop Command
1959
She Gods of Shark Reef
1958
The Littlest Hobo
1958
High School Hellcats
1958
Hot Rod Gang
1958
The Bonnie Parker Story
1958
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
1958
Jet Attack
1958
Suicide Battalion
1958
Sorority Girl
1957
Reform School Girl
1957
Invasion of the Saucer Men
1957
Dragstrip Girl
1957
The Undead
1957
Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957
Not of This Earth
1957
Naked Paradise
1957
Runaway Daughters
1956
Shake, Rattle & Rock!
1956
Flesh and the Spur
1956
The She-Creature
1956
It Conquered the World
1956
Girls in Prison
1956
The Oklahoma Woman
1956
Gunslinger
1956
Day the World Ended
1955
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
1955
Apache Woman
1955
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Naked Monster
2005
conductor
Ghosts That Still Walk
1977
creator: musical sounds / editor: musical sounds
A Man Called Dagger
1968
composer: additional music - uncredited / conductor / music adaptor
Blood Bath
1966
music supervisor
Queen of Blood
1966
composer: stock music - as Leonard Morand / music editor - as Leonard Morand
The Terror
1963
conductor
Last Woman on Earth
1960
conductor - as Ronald S. Stein
Escape to Paradise
1960
composer: stock music - uncredited
Nebo zovyot
1959
composer: stock music US version - uncredited
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
1959
music supervisor
Tank Commandos
1959
lyrics by
She Gods of Shark Reef
1958
conductor
High School Hellcats
1958
conductor
Hot Rod Gang
1958
music supervisor
The Bonnie Parker Story
1958
conductor
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
1958
conductor
Jet Attack
1958
conductor / musical director - uncredited
Dragstrip Girl
1957
musical director - uncredited
Rock All Night
1957
composer: stock music - uncredited
Naked Paradise
1957
music supervisor
Runaway Daughters
1956
music credit
Flesh and the Spur
1956
conductor / music arranger
The Oklahoma Woman
1956
conductor
Gunslinger
1956
musical director
Day the World Ended
1955
conductor
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
1955
music director
Apache Woman
1955
conductor
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Masters of Sex
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016
Velvet
2015
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Häiriötekijä
2015
writer: "Man In The Street"
Some Guy Who Kills People
2011
performer: "Alley Bash" / writer: "Alley Bash"
Decampitated
1998
performer: "Fifty Foot Rock 'n' Roll", "Scared Papers", "Dementia 13", "Spider Orgy", "The Terror", "The Secret Passage", "The Ceremony", "Light in the Bedroom" / writer: "Fifty Foot Rock 'n' Roll", "Scared Papers", "Dementia 13", "Spider Orgy", "The Terror", "The Secret Passage", "The Ceremony", "Light in the Bedroom"
Getting Straight
1970
writer: "Getting Straight", "Moon Rock and Talk"
Psych-Out
1968
"Psych-Out Sanctorum", "Beads Of Innocence", "Psych-Out"
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
1967
writer: "Spider Baby Theme" - uncredited
Curse of the Swamp Creature
1966
TV Movie "Music"
Rat Fink
1965
writer: "My Soul Runs Naked"
The Littlest Hobo
1963
TV Series lyrics: "Road without End" / music: "Road without End"
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