Doug Timm, 1960 - 1989

Date of Birth: 14 June 1960, Illinois, USA

 

Date of Death: 26 July 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

Nationality:      American

Houston composer Doug Timm was one of the most talented people I have ever met, have ever worked with, will ever meet. Doug was a music composer back in the 1980’s. That’s how I met him. I was a producer for Taylor Brown & Barnhill advertising in Houston, TX. Doug was a young, talented composer just starting out in the biz.

I worked with Doug on many projects including post-scores for Foley’s Department Stores, Safeway and Continental Airlines.

Feeling the clarion call of the wild (Hollywood), Doug moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and quickly landed his first film, “Terror in the Aisles.” Soon, Dog started working on bigger projects with bigger budgets and wider distribution.  

  He was savagely murdered in his home by two strangers he invited into his home in 1989. They were apprehended at their home the next day with Doug’s car and music equipment.

 

- Lou Congelio

Dirty Dozen: The Series (4 episodes, 1988)

          - The Dirtiest Show on Earth (1988) TV episode
          - Baby Brigade (1988) TV episode
          - Don Danko (1988) TV episode
          - Heavy Duty (1988) TV episode
  

Nightflyers (1987)

      ... aka Night Flyers (UK: video box title)
      ... aka Nightfliers (Philippines: English title)

Director: ROBERT COLLECTOR       

Doug Timm - Nightflyers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label:    Varèse Sarabande
Catalog#:    STV 81344
Format:    Vinyl, LP
Country:    US
Released:    1987
Genre:    Classical, Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style:    Dark Ambient, Abstract, Score, Experimental
Credits:  
Composed By, Performed By, - Doug Timm
Executive Producer - Richard Kraft
Mastered By - Ric Hancock
Producer - Doug Timm
Sequenced By - Tom Null
 

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987) (TV)

Director: ROBERT J. ROTH     Television film   
Composer: Doug Timm

Winners Take All (1987)

Directors
Fritz Kiersch     Director

Music Composer
Doug Timm     .
Worldwide Distributors
Nelson Entertainment     Video Distributor
Apollo Pictures     Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Manson International     Foreign Theatrical Distributor

Killer Party (1986)

(orchestrator)
          ... aka The April Fool (USA)
 

Terror in the Aisles (1984)

(orchestrator)
... aka Time for Terror (Europe: English title: video title) (writer: "They're Not Very Nice")

Director: ANDREW J. KUEHN   
Compilation     Composer: Doug Timm

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Role: Music, Orchestrations

Streetwalkin' (1985)

Role: Music
Director: JOAN FREEMAN (2)       
Composer: Doug Timm

TELEVISION

Simon & Simon (1 episode, 1987)

          - Opposites Attack (1987) TV episode
 

Streetwalkin' (1985)

          ... aka City Streets
          ... aka Cookie
 

Our Family Honor (1985) (TV)

Lone Star Bar & Grill (1983)

Designing Women (1986-1987) (TV Series)

Role: Editor, Music

Designing Women Special: Their Finest Hour (TV Special)

Role: Music

Dirty Dozen: The Series (TV Series)

Role: Music
"Dirty Dozen: The Series" (composer: theme music) (1 episode, 1988)
-    Remember St. Luc (1988) TV episode (composer: theme music

First the Egg (TV Special)

Role: Music

Karen's Song (TV Series)

Role: Music

Man Who Fell to Earth (TV Movie)

Role: Music

New Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Role: Music

Our Family Honor (TV Series)

Role: Music

Perkins Family (TV Series)

Role: Music

Waco & Rhinehart (TV Movie)

Role: Music

U.S. MARSHALS: WACO & RHINEHART   

1987     CHRISTIAN NYBY II     Television film   
Composer: Doug Timm

MISC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Zanelli
see Doug Timm Award

http://www.shawnpierce.com/engineer_bio.html
see Doug Timm Professional Writing Award

http://www.thejoyofsoxmovie.com/filmmakers.html
The Joy of Sox

Composer - April Thomas: Composer, Jazz Pianist; Original score and music composition for Green Grass, a short film on illegal immigration, Let It All Out (Providence 48 Hour Film Festival), Snap, a feature length film; and several shorts, including Royal Pain and Speed Dating. April attended Wellesley College where she was awarded the college’s Hubert Weldon Lamb Prize for music composition. A 2006 graduate of the Berklee College of Music, with a dual major in Film Scoring and Jazz Composition, she received several awards, including the Arif Mardin, the Herb Pomeroy Awards for Composition and Arranging, and the Doug Timm Award for Achievements in Film Scoring.


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It's possible my score for Terror in the Aisles will be released soon, too. I had the good fortune to write in the styles of I think 150 different pictures in that film, compiled together as the best of terror and suspense films. I got a chance to really dig back into the archives and see what people had done in the early days and what they're doing now. I had some wonderful help from Doug Timm and Joel Rosenbaum, and orchestration by Jack Hayes, which saved our life, because of the time frame on that. It was a case of more minutes of music than there are minutes of film because of all the overlays and side-by-side tracking. The last two reels of the film were redone the day before the recording session, so we had to make changes and get things finished, copied in London as we were recording the first section of the film. It was a definite panic and I had some wonderful help.

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Terror in the Aisles
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Terror in the Aisles
    * Rating: StarStarStar
    * Genre: Horror
    * Director: Andrew Kuehn
    * Main Cast: Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen
    * Release Year: 1984
    * Country: US
    * Run Time: 84 minutes
    * MPAA Rating: R

Plot
Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright-inducing effects. Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill), loathsome villains (Nighthawks, Vice Squad), and the occult (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist). Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: The Men Who Made the Movies, in one of the better segments of this anthology. Horror film buffs may chafe at the selection criteria, the truncated clips, and other scholarly points -- non-specialists will still get an overview of aspects of the genre. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Review
Though it's not much of a documentary, this compendium of "horror's greatest hits" has a lot more going for it than such later efforts as Boogeymen. Full of excellent, mostly gore-free excerpts from a wide variety of thrillers, slasher flicks, and creature features, Terror in the Aisles was a box-office hit upon its theatrical release, and rightly so. The film's voice-overs, by Halloween star Donald Pleasence and Carrie actress Nancy Allen, add a knowingly campy framework to the assembled frights. The staged scenes of people freaking out in movie theaters give Allen and Pleasence the chance to savor the witty narration, including the creepy tagline: "It's only a movie...but sooner or later you must leave the theater, perhaps alone!" A wonderful, though recycled, interview with Alfred Hitchcock functions as the sole stab at scholarly commentary, but at least it's smartly intercut with an example of the methodology the old master's explaining. Of course, the majority of the fun lies in the clips themselves. It's a lot of fun to watch Hollywood classics such as Klute and Strangers on a Train rub shoulders with indies and obscurities such as Ms. 45, The Phantom of the Paradise, and even Alligator. The excerpts are tantalizing, and only the most obsessive genre buffs will have seen all of the 60-plus assembled films. Of course, those who rush out to view the actual movies may learn in some cases that the clips salvage the only decent scenes from total duds; 1979's When a Stranger Calls comes to mind. Nevertheless, Terror in the Aisles features killer outtakes from so many first-rate movies that it can't help but be as good as the sum of its many enjoyable parts. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Cast

    * Donald Pleasence
    * Nancy Allen


Bela Lugosi
Credit
Ken Johnson - Music Editor; John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer; Andrew Kuehn - Director; Andrew Kuehn - Producer; Gregory McClatchy - Associate Producer; Gregory McClatchy - Editor; David E. Stone - Sound Editor; Doug Timm - Composer (Music Score); Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer; John Beal - Composer (Music Score); Richard Goldstein - Editor; Margaret Doppelt - Screenwriter; Stephen Netburn - Producer
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