C. Bakaleinikoff

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-04-25

Deathday 1966-09-03 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Moscow, Russia

Also Known As Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov, Константин Романович Бакалейников, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Constantine Bakaleinikoff, Bakaleinikoff, Constantin Bakaleynikov

C. Bakaleinikoff

Biography

Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled “Bakaleynikov” and “Bakaleinikoff”) was a Russian-born composer. Bakaleinikoff was from a large musical family. His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer). He studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Following the Russian revolution he migrated to the United States with his brother Mischa. He worked as a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic before beginning his Hollywood career as a freelance composer. At the 1927 premiere of director Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings at Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theater, the audience was treated to a concert of film music classics conducted by him. With the arrival of sound, the Bakaleinikoff brothers became studio maestros. Mischa joined Columbia Pictures, while Constantin became a musical director at Paramount Pictures, followed by MGM. Constantin also worked briefly at Columbia, and later for independent Grand National Pictures. In 1935, Bakaleinikoff participated in making the earliest dance film, Spring Night. He conducted Joseph Achron's score for this first experimental ballet film, which featured the choreography and dancing of David Lichine, who had danced with Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Nana Gollner, the Texas-born ballerina, was his partner. This pioneering film, which emerged from the Diaghilev sphere of influence, was produced by Adolf Zuckor. Bakaleinikoff received his first Academy Award nomination for scoring the James Cagney feature Something to Sing About (1937). Later, he became the senior music director at RKO Radio Pictures, where he spent most of his motion picture career. He earned Academy Award nominations for his work on The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Higher and Higher (1943), and None But the Lonely Heart (1944). For Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946), starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, he conducted the original score by composer Roy Webb, one that complements the director's elements of suspense and danger throughout the film. Bakaleinikoff, who was always billed as “C. Bakaleinikoff”, appeared on camera as himself in RKO's backstage musical Ding Dong Williams (filmed 1945, released in April 1946). He remained at RKO until the studio folded in 1956. He donated his time and talent in the late 1950s in mentoring and conducting the Burbank Youth Symphony. Constantin Bakaleinikoff was married to silent film actress Fritzi Ridgeway. He died in 1966 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Known For

Sound

1957
Jet Pilot

as Conductor

1957
The Bachelor Party

as Conductor

1956
The Conqueror

as Music Supervisor

1955
Underwater!

as Music Director

1954
Susan Slept Here

as Music Director

1953
The Hitch-Hiker

as Music Director

1952
Trail Guide

as Music Director

1952
Target

as Music Director

1952
The Lusty Men

as Music Director

1952
Macao

as Music Director

1952
Beware, My Lovely

as Music Director

1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate

as Music Director

1951
Law of the Badlands

as Music Director

1951
Double Dynamite

as Music Director

1951
Saddle Legion

as Music Director

1951
His Kind of Woman

as Music Director

1951
Flying Leathernecks

as Music Director

1951
Pistol Harvest

as Music Director

1951
Best of the Badmen

as Music Director

1951
Overland Telegraph

as Music Director

1951
Roadblock

as Music Director

1951
On Dangerous Ground

as Music Director

1951
The Blue Veil

as Music Director

1950
Border Treasure

as Music Director

1950
Riders of the Range

as Music Director

1950
Dynamite Pass

as Music Director

1950
Storm Over Wyoming

as Music Director

1950
Rider from Tucson

as Music Director

1950
Rio Grande Patrol

as Music Director

1950
Vendetta

as Music Director

1950
Armored Car Robbery

as Music Director

1950
Born to Be Bad

as Music Director

1950
The Secret Fury

as Music Director

1950
Bunco Squad

as Music Director

1950
Never a Dull Moment

as Music Director

1949
The Clay Pigeon

as Music Director

1949
The Big Steal

as Music Director

1949
The Window

as Music Director

1949
Holiday Affair

as Music Director

1949
Rustlers

as Music Director

1949
Caught

as Conductor

1949
Stagecoach Kid

as Music Director

1949
Follow Me Quietly

as Music Director

1949
Savage Splendor

as Music Director

1949
The Threat

as Music Director

1949
Bride for Sale

as Music Director

1949
Strange Bargain

as Music Director

1949
Roughshod

as Music Director

1949
A Woman's Secret

as Music Director

1949
Easy Living

as Music Director

1949
Mighty Joe Young

as Music Director

1948
The Velvet Touch

as Music Director

1948
The Boy with Green Hair

as Music Director

1948
Indian Agent

as Music Director

1948
The Arizona Ranger

as Music Director

1948
Rachel and the Stranger

as Music Director

1948
Blood on the Moon

as Music Director

1948
Gun Smugglers

as Music Director

1948
1948
Mystery in Mexico

as Music Director

1948
The Miracle of the Bells

as Music Director

1948
Station West

as Music Director

1948
Return of the Bad Men

as Music Director

1947
They Won't Believe Me

as Music Director

1947
A Likely Story

as Music Director

1947
Desperate

as Music Director

1947
The Farmer's Daughter

as Music Director

1947
Crossfire

as Music Director

1947
Banjo

as Music Director

1947
Out of the Past

as Music Director

1947
The Woman on the Beach

as Music Director

1947
Mourning Becomes Electra

as Music Director

1947
1947
Trail Street

as Music Director

1946
Criminal Court

as Music Director

1946
The Falcon's Adventure

as Music Director

1946
The Spiral Staircase

as Music Director

1946
Badman's Territory

as Music Director

1946
Notorious

as Music Director

1946
Heartbeat

as Music Director

1946
The Falcon's Alibi

as Music Director

1946
San Quentin

as Music Director

1946
The Truth About Murder

as Music Director

1946
Vacation in Reno

as Music Director

1946
From This Day Forward

as Music Director

1946
Bedlam

as Music Director

1946
Deadline at Dawn

as Music Director

1946
The Locket

as Music Director

1945
Man Alive

as Music Director

1945
Having Wonderful Crime

as Music Director

1945
China Sky

as Music Director

1945
The Body Snatcher

as Music Director

1945
The Spanish Main

as Music Director

1945
The Falcon in San Francisco

as Music Director

1945
George White's Scandals

as Music Director

1945
The Brighton Strangler

as Music Director

1945
What a Blonde

as Music Director

1944
Youth Runs Wild

as Music Director

1944
The Falcon Out West

as Music Director

1944
None But the Lonely Heart

as Music Director

1944
My Pal, Wolf

as Music Director

1944
Tender Comrade

as Music Director

1944
A Night of Adventure

as Music Director

1944
Mademoiselle Fifi

as Music Director

1944
The Falcon in Hollywood

as Music Director

1944
The Falcon in Mexico

as Music Director

1944
Days of Glory

as Music Director

1944
Experiment Perilous

as Music Director

1944
Murder, My Sweet

as Music Director

1944
The Curse of the Cat People

as Music Director

1944
Bride by Mistake

as Music Director

1943
Stage Door Canteen

as Music Director

1943
The Falcon Strikes Back

as Music Director

1943
The Falcon in Danger

as Music Director

1943
The Falcon and the Co-Eds

as Music Director

1943
1943
Petticoat Larceny

as Music Director

1943
Tarzan Triumphs

as Music Director

1943
Tarzan's Desert Mystery

as Music Director

1943
Gangway for Tomorrow

as Music Director

1943
This Land Is Mine

as Music Director

1943
Mr. Lucky

as Music Director

1943
I Walked with a Zombie

as Music Director

1943
Higher and Higher

as Original Music Composer

1943
The Fallen Sparrow

as Music Director

1943
The Seventh Victim

as Music Director

1943
The Ghost Ship

as Music Director

1942
The Falcon's Brother

as Music Director

1942
A Date with the Falcon

as Music Director

1942
The Big Street

as Music Director

1942
Cat People

as Music Director

1942
The Falcon Takes Over

as Music Director

1941
Look Who's Laughing

as Music Director

1941
Weekend for Three

as Music Director

1941
1941
Adam Had Four Sons

as Music Director

1940
Night Descends on Treasure Island

as Music Score Producer

1940
A Failure at Fifty

as Original Music Composer

1940
1940
Sitka and Juneau: 'A Tale of Two Cities'

as Original Music Composer

1940
Suva: 'Pride of Fiji'

as Original Music Composer

1939
Let's Talk Turkey

as Original Music Composer

1939
Mendelssohn's Wedding March

as Music Arranger

1939
One Against the World

as Original Music Composer

1939
Rural Hungary

as Music

1938
1935
Bride of Frankenstein

as Orchestrator

1935
East of Java

as Conductor

1933
Man's Castle

as Music Director

1933
My Woman

as Music Director

1930
Rain or Shine

as Music Director

1930
Ladies of Leisure

as Music Director

1929
Welcome Danger

as Music Arranger

Actor

1949
A Woman's Secret

as Studio Recording Session Conductor (Uncredited)

1939
Fast and Furious

as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)