Robert Jackson Drasnin (November 17, 1927 – May 13, 2015) was an American composer and clarinet player.
He was born on November 17, 1927, in Charleston, West Virginia. At an early age Drasnin was interested in the Clarinet so he took lessons but when his family moved to Los Angeles he wasn't able to start until 1938.[clarification needed] He attended Franklin Avenue Grammar School in East Hollywood and then Thomas Starr King Junior High and eventually Los Angeles High School in which he joined the American Federation of Musicians. Drasnin joined the United States Army after graduation and served during the Korean War.
Dionysus Records announced that Robert Drasnin died on May 13, 2015.
Robert Drasnin died Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at Providence Tarzana Medical Centre, in Tarzana, Los Angeles neighbourhood, California. He was 87. Death was due to complications from a recent fall.
Robert Drasnin spent the vast majority of his career in music composing for films and television shows. He composed or supervised scores for well over 100 films and TV shows.
In 1955 Drasnin scored the film Teenage Devil Dolls, and his other film scores included Ride in the Whirlwind (1966), Picture Mommy Dead (1966), Daughter of the Mind (1969), The Kremlin Letter (1970), Crowhaven Farm (1970), The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970), Dr. Cook's Garden (1971), A Taste of Evil (1971), The Candy Snatchers (1973), Crisis in Mid-Air (1979) and Love, Mary (1985).[2] Drasnin also scored incidental music for such notable TV shows as The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, Wild, Wild West, Hawaii Five-0, Time Tunnel, Lost In Space, Mannix, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea.
Robert Drasnin served as music supervisor at CBS for such TV shows as Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone and a host of made for TV movies.
