C. Bakaleinikoff
male
Born on April 25, 1896 (129 years old)
Passed Away on September 03, 1966
From Moscow, Russia
Known for Sound
Biography
Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled “Bakaleynikov” and “Bakaleinikoff”) was a Russian-born composer. Bakaleinikoff was from a large musical family. His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer). He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Following the Russian revolution he migrated to the United States with his brother Mischa. He worked as a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic before beginning his Hollywood career as a freelance composer. At the 1927 premiere of director Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings at Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the audience was treated to a concert of film music classics conducted by him. With the arrival of sound, the Bakaleinikoff brothers became studio maestros. Mischa joined Columbia Pictures, while Constantin became a musical director at Paramount Pictures, followed by MGM. Constantin also worked briefly at Columbia, and later for independent Grand National Pictures. In 1935, Bakaleinikoff participated in making the earliest dance film, Spring Night. He conducted Joseph Achron's score for this first experimental ballet film, which featured the choreography and dancing of David Lichine, who had danced with Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Nana Gollner, the Texas-born ballerina, was his partner. This pioneering film, which emerged from the Diaghilev sphere of influence, was produced by Adolf Zuckor. Bakaleinikoff received his first Academy Award nomination for scoring the James Cagney feature Something to Sing About (1937). Later, he became the senior music director at RKO Radio Pictures, where he spent most of his motion picture career. He earned Academy Award nominations for his work on The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Higher and Higher (1943), and None But the Lonely Heart (1944). For Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, he conducted the original score by composer Roy Webb, one that complements the director's elements of suspense and danger throughout the film. Bakaleinikoff, who was always billed as “C. Bakaleinikoff”, appeared on camera as himself in RKO's backstage musical Ding Dong Williams (filmed 1945, released in April 1946). He remained at RKO until the studio folded in 1956. He donated his time and talent in the late 1950s in mentoring and conducting the Burbank Youth Symphony. Constantin Bakaleinikoff was married to silent film actress Fritzi Ridgeway. He died in 1966 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Cast Credits
Crew Credits
- 1957
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
Law of the Badlands
as
Music Director
1951
Double Dynamite
as
Music Director
1951
Saddle Legion
as
Music Director
1951
His Kind of Woman
as
Music Director
1951
Flying Leathernecks
as
Music Director
1951
Pistol Harvest
as
Music Director
1951
Best of the Badmen
as
Music Director
1951
Overland Telegraph
as
Music Director
1951
Roadblock
as
Music Director
1951
On Dangerous Ground
as
Music Director
1951
The Blue Veil
as
Music Director
1951
The Company She Keeps
as
Music Director
1951
The Racket
as
Music Director
1951
- 1950
Border Treasure
as
Music Director
1950
Riders of the Range
as
Music Director
1950
Dynamite Pass
as
Music Director
1950
Storm Over Wyoming
as
Music Director
1950
Rider from Tucson
as
Music Director
1950
Rio Grande Patrol
as
Music Director
1950
Vendetta
as
Music Director
1950
Armored Car Robbery
as
Music Director
1950
Born to Be Bad
as
Music Director
1950
The Secret Fury
as
Music Director
1950
Bunco Squad
as
Music Director
1950
Never a Dull Moment
as
Music Director
1950
Where Danger Lives
as
Music Director
1950
- 1949
The Clay Pigeon
as
Music Director
1949
The Big Steal
as
Music Director
1949
The Window
as
Music Director
1949
Holiday Affair
as
Music Director
1949
Rustlers
as
Music Director
1949
Caught
as
Conductor
1949
Stagecoach Kid
as
Music Director
1949
Follow Me Quietly
as
Music Director
1949
Savage Splendor
as
Music Director
1949
The Threat
as
Music Director
1949
Bride for Sale
as
Music Director
1949
Strange Bargain
as
Music Director
1949
Roughshod
as
Music Director
1949
A Woman's Secret
as
Music Director
1949
Easy Living
as
Music Director
1949
Mighty Joe Young
as
Music Director
1949
- 1948
The Velvet Touch
as
Music Director
1948
The Boy with Green Hair
as
Music Director
1948
Indian Agent
as
Music Director
1948
The Arizona Ranger
as
Music Director
1948
Rachel and the Stranger
as
Music Director
1948
Blood on the Moon
as
Music Director
1948
Gun Smugglers
as
Music Director
1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
as
Music Director
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as
Music Director
1948
Mystery in Mexico
as
Music Director
1948
The Miracle of the Bells
as
Music Director
1948
Station West
as
Music Director
1948
Return of the Bad Men
as
Music Director
1948
- 1947
They Won't Believe Me
as
Music Director
1947
A Likely Story
as
Music Director
1947
Desperate
as
Music Director
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
as
Music Director
1947
Crossfire
as
Music Director
1947
Banjo
as
Music Director
1947
Out of the Past
as
Music Director
1947
The Woman on the Beach
as
Music Director
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as
Music Director
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
as
Music Director
1947
Trail Street
as
Music Director
1947
- 1946
Criminal Court
as
Music Director
1946
The Falcon's Adventure
as
Music Director
1946
The Spiral Staircase
as
Music Director
1946
Badman's Territory
as
Music Director
1946
Notorious
as
Music Director
1946
Heartbeat
as
Music Director
1946
The Falcon's Alibi
as
Music Director
1946
San Quentin
as
Music Director
1946
The Truth About Murder
as
Music Director
1946
Vacation in Reno
as
Music Director
1946
From This Day Forward
as
Music Director
1946
Bedlam
as
Music Director
1946
Deadline at Dawn
as
Music Director
1946
The Locket
as
Music Director
1946
Nocturne
as
Music Director
1946
- 1945
Man Alive
as
Music Director
1945
Having Wonderful Crime
as
Music Director
1945
China Sky
as
Music Director
1945
The Body Snatcher
as
Music Director
1945
The Spanish Main
as
Music Director
1945
The Falcon in San Francisco
as
Music Director
1945
George White's Scandals
as
Music Director
1945
The Brighton Strangler
as
Music Director
1945
What a Blonde
as
Music Director
1945
Johnny Angel
as
Music Director
1945
Zombies on Broadway
as
Music Director
1945
- 1944
Youth Runs Wild
as
Music Director
1944
The Falcon Out West
as
Music Director
1944
None But the Lonely Heart
as
Music Director
1944
My Pal, Wolf
as
Music Director
1944
Tender Comrade
as
Music Director
1944
A Night of Adventure
as
Music Director
1944
Mademoiselle Fifi
as
Music Director
1944
The Falcon in Hollywood
as
Music Director
1944
The Falcon in Mexico
as
Music Director
1944
Days of Glory
as
Music Director
1944
Experiment Perilous
as
Music Director
1944
Murder, My Sweet
as
Music Director
1944
The Curse of the Cat People
as
Music Director
1944
Bride by Mistake
as
Music Director
1944
Tall in the Saddle
as
Music Director
1944
Music in Manhattan
as
Music Director
1944
- 1943
Stage Door Canteen
as
Music Director
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
as
Music Director
1943
The Falcon in Danger
as
Music Director
1943
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
as
Music Director
1943
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
as
Music Director
1943
Petticoat Larceny
as
Music Director
1943
Tarzan Triumphs
as
Music Director
1943
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
as
Music Director
1943
Gangway for Tomorrow
as
Music Director
1943
This Land Is Mine
as
Music Director
1943
Mr. Lucky
as
Music Director
1943
I Walked with a Zombie
as
Music Director
1943
Higher and Higher
as
Original Music Composer
1943
The Fallen Sparrow
as
Music Director
1943
The Seventh Victim
as
Music Director
1943
The Ghost Ship
as
Music Director
1943
The Leopard Man
as
Music Director
1943
Flight for Freedom
as
Music Director
1943
Hitler's Children
as
Music Director
1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
Night Descends on Treasure Island
as
Music Score Producer
1940
The Capital City: Washington, D.C.
as
Music
1940
A Failure at Fifty
as
Original Music Composer
1940
Modern New Orleans
as
Music
1940
Sitka and Juneau: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
as
Original Music Composer
1940
Cavalcade of San Francisco
as
Music
1940
Suva: 'Pride of Fiji'
as
Original Music Composer
1940
- 1939
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
- 1933
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
