Billy Goldenberg, the Emmy-winning composer and songwriter, died Monday night at his home in New York City. He was 84.
Goldenberg wrote the themes for such 1970s TV series as “Kojak,” “Harry O” and “Rhoda,” composed the pilot scores for “Night Gallery” and “Columbo,” and won Emmys for the TV-movie “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” and miniseries “The Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” “King” and “Rage of Angels.”
He expanded his 1975 “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” song score, with lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, into the score of the 1978 Broadway musical “Ballroom,” directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett of “A Chorus Line” fame. It earned eight Tony nominations including Best Musical.
Reminiscing Wednesday about their collaboration on “Ballroom,” Alan Bergman told Variety: “Billy was one of the rare composers who was also a dramatist. Lots of people can write melodies, but you could tell Billy the situation, what the characters were feeling,...
Goldenberg wrote the themes for such 1970s TV series as “Kojak,” “Harry O” and “Rhoda,” composed the pilot scores for “Night Gallery” and “Columbo,” and won Emmys for the TV-movie “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” and miniseries “The Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” “King” and “Rage of Angels.”
He expanded his 1975 “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” song score, with lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, into the score of the 1978 Broadway musical “Ballroom,” directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett of “A Chorus Line” fame. It earned eight Tony nominations including Best Musical.
Reminiscing Wednesday about their collaboration on “Ballroom,” Alan Bergman told Variety: “Billy was one of the rare composers who was also a dramatist. Lots of people can write melodies, but you could tell Billy the situation, what the characters were feeling,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Jon Polito, a veteran character actor who had roles in The Big Lebowski and other Coen brothers films and was an original cast member in the acclaimed NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, died today of cancer complications at City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 65. His family confirmed the news this morning. Polito had more than 200 film and TV credits dating to the 1981 miniseries The Gangster Chronicles. He worked steadily for 35 years, including…...
- 9/2/2016
- Deadline TV
Jon Polito, a veteran character actor who had roles in The Big Lebowski and other Coen brothers films and was an original cast member in the acclaimed NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, died today of cancer complications at City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 65. His family confirmed the news this morning. Polito had more than 200 film and TV credits dating to the 1981 miniseries The Gangster Chronicles. He worked steadily for 35 years, including…...
- 9/2/2016
- Deadline
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