Biography

Lew Porter(1892-1956)

Music Department
Composer
Actor

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Lew Porter was born on 4 February 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Knight of the Plains (1938), Jive Junction (1943) and Port of Hate (1939). He died on 29 January 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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John Merton and Fred Scott in Knight of the Plains (1938)

Knight of the Plains

4.6

Music Department

1938

Venise Grove, Dickie Moore, Tina Thayer, Gerra Young, and Don Gallaher in Jive Junction (1943)

5.2

Soundtrack("In a Little Music Shop" (1943), "Mother Earth" (1943), "Jive Junction" (1943), "Cock a Doodle Doo" (1943), "Where Is Love" (1943), "We're Just In-Between" (1943), "A-Doo-Dee-Doo-Doo" (1943))

1943

Kenneth Harlan, Carleton Young, and Polly Ann Young in Port of Hate (1939)

5.2

Music Department

1939

Joan Barclay and Tex Fletcher in Six-Gun Rhythm (1939)

5.6

Music Department

1939

Credits

Music Department

Outlaws of Boulder Pass
5.6
- composer: songs
- 1942
Sheriff of Sage Valley
5.3
- songs
- 1942
Let's Get Tough!
5.2
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1942
The Corpse Vanishes
4.6
- musical director (as Porter)
- 1942
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
5.9
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1942
Mr. Wise Guy
5.6
- musical director (as Porter)
- 1942
Today I Hang
5.0
- musical director
- 1942
I Killed That Man
5.7
- musical director
- 1941
Zis Boom Bah
4.7
- musical director (as Lange & Porter A.S.C.A.P.)
- 1941
Spooks Run Wild
5.3
- musical director (as Porter)
- 1941
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6.0
- composer: stock music
- musical director (as Porter, uncredited)
- 1941
Paper Bullets
5.5
- musical director (as Lange & Porter)
- 1941
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
5.7
- music and lyrics
- 1941
Invisible Ghost
5.2
- composer: stock music
- musical director (as Porter, uncredited)
- 1941
Flying Wild
5.4
- composer: stock music
- musical director (as Porter, uncredited)
- 1941

Composer

Prairie Rustlers
6.1
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1945
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
5.6
- Composer
- 1942
Along the Sundown Trail
5.1
- Composer
- 1942
Sheriff of Sage Valley
5.3
- Composer
- 1942
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
5.9
- Composer
- 1942
Rolling Down the Great Divide
3.7
- Composer
- 1942
Black Dragons
4.3
- Composer (as Porter)
- 1942
Billy the Kid Trapped
5.1
- Composer
- 1942
Mr. Wise Guy
5.6
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1942
Spooks Run Wild
5.3
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
5.9
- Composer
- 1941
Emergency Landing
4.3
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
Riders from Nowhere
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1940
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
6.0
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1940
Pride of the Bowery
5.9
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1940

Actor

Prairie Badmen
6.1
- Townsman (uncredited)
- 1946
Prairie Rustlers
6.1
- Raffle Emcee Pianist (uncredited)
- 1945
Shadows of Death
5.9
- Gambler (uncredited)
- 1945
Valley of Vengeance
5.8
- Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1944
Blazing Frontier
5.7
- Man at Auction (uncredited)
- 1943
Six Gun Gospel
6.4
- Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1943
Law of the Saddle
6.5
- Barfly (uncredited)
- 1943
The Kid Rides Again
5.3
- Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1943
Along the Sundown Trail
5.1
- Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1942
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
5.9
- Short Rancher (uncredited)
- 1942
Rolling Down the Great Divide
3.7
- Barfly (uncredited)
- 1942
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
5.8
- Pianist (uncredited)
- 1942
The Lone Rider Ambushed
5.0
- Lew - Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1941
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
5.1
- Barfly (uncredited)
- 1941
The Cheyenne Kid
5.1
- Piano Player (uncredited)
- 1940

Personal details

Alternative names
- Lange & Porter A.S.C.A.P.
Born
- February 4, 1892
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- January 29, 1956
- Los Angeles, California, USA

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- Porter

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