John P. Livadary
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John Paul Livadary was a sound designer.

He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years. The first Oscar was for One Night of Love
One Night of Love
One Night of Love is a 1934 romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare...

(1934), the second for The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.The...

(1946) and the third for From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...

(1953).

Filmography

  • Broadway Scandals
    Broadway Scandals
    Broadway Scandals, aka Scandalo di Broadway is a 1929 American black and white musical film.-Cast:* Sally O'Neil - Mary* Jack Egan - Ted Howard* Carmel Myers - Valeska* J...

    (1929)
  • The Song of Love (1929)
  • Flight (1929)
  • Acquitted (1929)
  • The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
  • Wall Street
    Wall Street (1929 film)
    Wall Street was a drama film released on December 1, 1929 and was produced by Harry Cohn, directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick.synopsis...

    (1929)
  • Around the Corner (1930)
  • Soldiers and Women (1930)
  • Hell's Island (1930)
  • Ladies Must Play (1930)
  • Shadow Ranch
    Shadow Ranch (film)
    - Cast :*Buck Jones as Sim Baldwin*Marguerite De La Motte as Ruth Cameron*Kate Price as Maggie Murphy*Albert J. Smith as Dan Blake*Robert McKenzie as Lawyer*Frank Rice as Ranny Williams*Ben Corbett as Cowhand Ben*Ernie Adams as Henchman Joe...

    (1930)
  • Hurricane (1930)
  • Men Without Law (1930)
  • Dirigible
    Dirigible (film)
    Dirigible is Frank Capra's 1931 adventure film about the competition between American naval fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air....

    (1931)
  • Love Me Forever
    Love Me Forever
    Love Me Forever is a 1935 American drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording .-Cast:* Grace Moore as Margaret Howard* Leo Carrillo as Steve Corelli...

    (1935)
  • Too Many Husbands
    Too Many Husbands
    Too Many Husbands is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play "Home and Beauty" by W. Somerset Maugham...

    (1940)
  • The Brave Bulls
    The Brave Bulls
    The Brave Bulls is a 1949 Western novel written by Tom Lea about the raising of bulls, on the ranch Las Astas, for bullfighting in Mexico....

    (1951)
  • The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954)
  • Pushover
    Pushover (film)
    Pushover is a film noir notable for being the first film to feature Kim Novak in a starring role. Directed by Richard Quine, the Columbia Pictures film also stars Fred MacMurray. It was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S...

    (1954)
  • Human Desire
    Human Desire
    Human Desire is a black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola. The story was filmed twice before: La Bête humaine directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen .-Plot:Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley gets fired from his job...

    (1954)
  • The Black Dakotas (1954)
  • Three Hours to Kill (1954)
  • Cannibal Attack (1954)
  • Phffft!
    Phffft!
    Phffft! is a 1954 black and white romantic comedy starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson and featuring Kim Novak, in a small but notable role...

    (1954)
  • The Violent Men
    The Violent Men
    The Violent Men is a CinemaScope Western film drama from 1955. It was directed by Rudolph Maté, and starred Glenn Ford along with Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson as a bickering married couple at odds with cattlemen in their small town. Brian Keith and Diane Foster co-starred...

    (1955)
  • Masterson of Kansas (1955)
  • The Bamboo Prison (1955)
  • Ten Wanted Men (1955)
  • The Long Gray Line
    The Long Gray Line
    The Long Gray Line is a 1955 American drama film directed by John Ford based on the life of Marty Maher. Tyrone Power stars as the scrappy Irish immigrant whose 50-year career at West Point took him from dishwasher to non-commissioned officer and athletic instructor.Maureen O'Hara, one of Ford's...

    (1955)
  • Women's Prison
    Women's Prison (1955 film)
    Women's Prison is a 1955 film prison noir directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling and Cleo Moore. The movie was released through Columbia Pictures.-Cast:*Ida Lupino as Amelia van Zandt*Jan Sterling as Brenda Martin...

    (1955)
  • Pirates of Tripoli (1955)
  • Wyoming Renegades
    Wyoming Renegades
    Wyoming Renegades is a 1954 Western film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Phil Carey, Gene Evans and Martha Hyer. The film features Butch Cassidy as the leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang.-Plot synopsis:...

    (1955)
  • Three for the Show
    Three for the Show
    Three for the Show is a 1955 musical comedy remake of Too Many Husbands. It starred actress Betty Grable in her last musical, opposite Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion and Marge Champion.-Cast:*Betty Grable as Julie Lowndes...

    (1955)
  • Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)
  • Seminole Uprising (1955)

  • Tight Spot
    Tight Spot
    Tight Spot is an American film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by William Bowers, based on the play Dead Pigeon, by Leonard Kantor. It stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, and Eve McVeagh...

    (1955)
  • 5 Against the House
    5 Against the House
    5 Against the House is a 1955 American heist film starring Kim Novak, Guy Madison and Brian Keith, directed by Phil Karlson and based on a story by Jack Finney...

    (1955)
  • Bring Your Smile Along
    Bring Your Smile Along
    Bring Your Smile Along is a 1955 Technicolor comedy film by Blake Edwards. It was Edwards' directorial debut and the motion picture debut of Constance Towers. Edwards wrote the script for this Frankie Laine musical with his mentor, director Richard Quine...

    (1955)
  • The Man from Laramie
    The Man from Laramie
    The Man from Laramie is an American Technicolor Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in the fifth and final of their Western collaborations, and their seventh collaboration overall. It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T...

    (1955)
  • My Sister Eileen
    My Sister Eileen
    My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play , two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....

    (1955)
  • Count Three and Pray
    Count Three and Pray (film)
    Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward and Raymond Burr. It was based on the story Calico Pony Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward (in her film debut) and Raymond Burr. It was based on...

    (1955)
  • Queen Bee
    Queen Bee (film)
    Queen Bee is a 1955 drama film starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Fay Wray, Betsy Palmer, and Barry Sullivan in a story about a family dominated by a ruthless woman. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall was based upon a novel by Edna L. Lee. The film was directed by Ranald MacDougall and produced...

    (1955)
  • A Lawless Street
    A Lawless Street
    A Lawless Street is a 1955 western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury. The film is also known as The Marshal of Medicine Bend in the US.-Plot:...

    (1955)
  • Picnic (1955)
  • The Last Frontier
    The Last Frontier (1955 film)
    The Last Frontier is a 1955 American Western directed by Anthony Mann and starring Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston and Anne Bancroft. The film is set during the Civil War at an isolated army base at the far reaches of the American frontier, where the Indians still far outnumber the...

    (1956)
  • Battle Stations (1956)
  • Hot Blood (1956)
  • The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall
    The Harder They Fall is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg....

    (1956)
  • Jubal
    Jubal (film)
    Jubal is a 1956 Western directed by Delmer Daves based on a 1939 novel by Paul Wellman. It stars Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine and Rod Steiger and was filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...

    (1956)
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
    The Eddy Duchin Story
    The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. It was directed by George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, and starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. The musical soundtrack recording, imitating Duchin's style, was performed by pianist Carmen Cavallaro....

    (1956)
  • Autumn Leaves
    Autumn Leaves (film)
    Autumn Leaves is a 1956 Columbia Pictures drama film starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in an older woman/younger man tale of mental illness. The screenplay was written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler, though it was credited to Jack Jevne, Rouverol and Butler being blacklisted at the time...

    (1956)
  • He Laughed Last
    He Laughed Last
    He Laughed Last is a 1956 film by Blake Edwards. A Runyonesque Roaring 20s musical comedy about a show girl who circumstance casts as an unlikely mob boss. Edwards adapted the film for his 1999 off-Broadway show, Big Rosemary. Edwards directed Cady Huffman in the Lucy Marlow role from the original...

    (1956)
  • Storm Center
    Storm Center
    Storm Center is an American drama film directed by Daniel Taradash. The screenplay by Taradash and Elick Moll focuses on what were at the time two very controversial subjects, Communism and book banning, and took a strong stance against censorship....

    (1956)
  • The Solid Gold Cadillac
    The Solid Gold Cadillac
    The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film directed by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway play of the same name by Teichmann and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen...

    (1956)
  • Reprisal! (1956)
  • You Can't Run Away from It
    You Can't Run Away from It
    You Can't Run Away from It is a 1956 Technicolor and CinemaScope musical comedy starring June Allyson and Jack Lemmon. Directed and produced by Dick Powell, the film is a remake of the 1934 Academy Award-winning film It Happened One Night.-Plot:...

    (1956)
  • Full of Life (1957)
  • Nightfall
    Nightfall (1957 film)
    Nightfall is a film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. It features Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, and Anne Bancroft. The low-budget film is remembered today for camera work by cinematographer Burnett Guffey...

    (1957)
  • The Guns of Fort Petticoat
    The Guns of Fort Petticoat
    The Guns of Fort Petticoat is a 1957 Technicolor Western produced by Harry Joe Brown and Audie Murphy for Columbia Pictures. It was based on the 1955 short story "Petticoat Brigade" by Chester William Harrison that he expanded into a novelization for the film's release. It was directed by George...

    (1957)
  • The Garment Jungle
    The Garment Jungle
    The Garment Jungle is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich and written by Lester Velie and Harry Kleiner. The drama features Gia Scala, Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Matthews and Richard Boone, among others.-Plot:...

    (1957)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
  • Jeanne Eagels
    Jeanne Eagels (film)
    Jeanne Eagels is a 1957 fictionalized biographical film of the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels, made by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by George Sidney from a screenplay by John Fante, Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Fuchs...

    (1957)
  • The Brothers Rico
    The Brothers Rico
    The Brothers Rico is an American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by Lewis Meltzer, Ben Perry, and Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on a story written by Georges Simenon, a French detective-story specialist...

    (1957)
  • Decision at Sundown
    Decision at Sundown
    Decision at Sundown is a 1957 western directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott.One of seven Boetticher/Scott western collaborations that also includes Seven Men from Now, The Tall T, Buchanan Rides Alone, Westbound, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station.-Plot synopsis:Bart Allison ...

    (1957)
  • Operation Mad Ball
    Operation Mad Ball
    Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 military comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Dick York, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney and directed by Richard Quine. The screenplay by Blake Edwards and Jed Harris is based on an unproduced play by Arthur Carter.-Plot:In a hospital unit in...

    (1957)
  • Pal Joey
    Pal Joey (film)
    Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novak's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin...

    (1957)
  • Going Steady (1958)
  • Cowboy (1958)
  • Screaming Mimi (1958)
  • The Case Against Brooklyn
    The Case Against Brooklyn
    The Case Against Brooklyn is a 1958 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Darren McGavin and Margaret Hayes. It was based on a True Magazine article I Broke the Brooklyn Graft Scandal by crime reporter Ed Reid...

    (1958)

  • The Lineup
    The Lineup (film)
    The Lineup is a 1958 American film version of the police procedural series that ran on CBS radio from 1950 through 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 through 1960, directed by Don Siegel...

    (1958)
  • Life Begins at 17 (1958)
  • Gunman's Walk
    Gunman's Walk
    Gunman's Walk is a 1958 film directed by Phil Karlson. It stars Van Heflin and Tab Hunter.-Cast:*Van Heflin as Lee Hackett*Tab Hunter as Ed Hackett*Kathryn Grant as Clee Chouard*James Darren as Davy Hackett...

    (1958)
  • Buchanan Rides Alone
    Buchanan Rides Alone
    Buchanan Rides Again is a 1958 western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. It is based on the 1956 William Ard novel The Name's Buchanan.-Plot:...

    (1958)
  • Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
  • Apache Territory
    Apache Territory
    Apache Territory is a 1958 Western film released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Ray Nazarro and produced by and starring Rory Calhoun. The story is based on the novel Last Stand at Papago Wells by Louis L'Amour.-Plot:...

    (1958)
  • Me and the Colonel
    Me and the Colonel
    Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on the play "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" by Franz Werfel. It was directed by Peter Glenville and stars Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens and Akim Tamiroff....

    (1958)
  • The Last Hurrah
    The Last Hurrah (1958 film)
    The Last Hurrah is a 1958 film adaptation of the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by John Ford and starred Spencer Tracy as a veteran mayor preparing for yet another election campaign...

    (1958)
  • Tarawa Beachhead
    Tarawa Beachhead
    Tarawa Beachhead is a 1958 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Columbia Pictures contract star Kerwin Mathews in his first leading role and the husband and wife team of Ray Danton and Julie Adams. The working title of the film was Flag over Tarawa and was originally to have starred Ronald...

    (1958)
  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
  • Bell, Book and Candle (1959)
  • Senior Prom
    Senior Prom (film)
    Senior Prom is a 1958 film directed by David Lowell Rich. It stars Jill Corey and Paul Hampton.-Cast:*Jill Corey as Gary Sherridan*Paul Hampton as Tom Harper*James Komack as Dog*Barbara Bostock as Flip*Tom Laughlin as Carter Breed III...

    (1959)
  • Good Day for a Hanging
    Good Day for a Hanging
    Good Day for a Hanging is a western concerning how a town views the upcoming hanging of a young man accused of murdering the sheriff during a robbery. Directed by Nathan H. Juran, it stars Fred MacMurray as the reluctant new sheriff and Robert Vaughn as the young man accused of the crime....

    (1959)
  • Ride Lonesome
    Ride Lonesome
    Ride Lonesome is a a 1959 Eastmancolor film; one of Budd Boetticher's "Ranown" westerns starring Randolph Scott and part of a series of films that began with Seven Men from Now...

    (1959)
  • Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
  • Forbidden Island (1959)
  • Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
  • Gidget
    Gidget (film)
    Gidget is a 1959 Columbia Pictures CinemaScope feature film. It stars Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, and James Darren in a story about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her affiliated romance with a young surfer. The screenplay was written by Gabrielle Upton, a nom de plume...

    (1959)
  • Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
    Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
    Hey Boy! Hey Girl! is a 1959 film directed by David Lowell Rich. It stars Louis Prima and Keely Smith.-Cast:*Louis Prima as Himself*Keely Smith as Dorothy Spencer*James Gregory as Father Burton*Henry Slate as Marty Moran*Kim Charney as Buzz...

    (1959)
  • Face of a Fugitive
    Face of a Fugitive
    Face of a Fugitive is a 1959 Western film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Fred MacMurray and Lin McCarthy and was based on the short story "Long Gone" by Peter Dawson, the nom de plume of Jonathan H. Glidden . Dawson was the author of 120 Western short stories and novelettes as well as 15 book...

    (1959)
  • It Happened to Jane
    It Happened to Jane
    It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk.The film was co-produced by Quine and star Day's husband at the time, Martin Melcher....

    (1959)
  • The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
  • Have Rocket, Will Travel
    Have Rocket, Will Travel
    Have Rocket, Will Travel is a 1959 comedy film starring The Three Stooges. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita . Released by Columbia Pictures, the feature was produced to capitalize on the comedy trio's late 1950s resurgence in popularity...

    (1959)
  • The Crimson Kimono
    The Crimson Kimono
    The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller. The film stars James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw.It featured several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller.-Plot:The film is essentially about...

    (1959)
  • The Tingler
    The Tingler
    The Tingler is a 1959 horror-thriller film by American producer/director William Castle. It is the third of five collaborations with writer Robb White and stars Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge and Judith Evelyn.The film tells the story of a scientist...

    (1959)
  • They Came to Cordura
    They Came To Cordura
    They Came To Cordura is a 1959 Western film co-written and directed by Robert Rossen, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, and featuring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan, and Dick York. It was based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout.-Plot:Tom Thorn is a U.S...

    (1959)
  • Battle of the Coral Sea
    Battle of the Coral Sea (film)
    Battle of the Coral Sea is a 1959 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Cliff Robertson and Gia Scala.-Plot:The crew of an American submarine are on a reconnaissance mission photographing Japanese installations through a periscope camera. When attacked by the Japanese the submarine is scuttled...

    (1959)
  • The Last Angry Man
    The Last Angry Man
    The Last Angry Man is a drama film which tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams , and Godfrey Cambridge....

    (1959)
  • The Flying Fontaines (1959)
  • Edge of Eternity
    Edge of Eternity
    Edge of Eternity is a 1959 CinemaScope film directed by Don Siegel shot on location in the Grand Canyon.-Plot:The film begins with an attempted assassination of a man looking into the Grand Canyon with his binoculars. The assassin disables the emergency brake from the man's car and attempts to run...

    (1959)
  • 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
  • Comanche Station
    Comanche Station
    Comanche Station is a 1960 American CinemaScope western film. This was the last of Budd Boetticher's late 1950s Ranown Cycle western films starring Randolph Scott.-Plot:...

    (1960)
  • The Mountain Road
    The Mountain Road
    The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann. Based on a book by Theodore White, the film follows the attempts of a U.S. Army major to destroy bridges and roads potentially useful to the Japanese during World War II.Starting on Sunday, June 28, 1959,...

    (1960)


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