Eldon Rathburn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian film composer
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Place of Birth: Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
About Eldon Rathburn
- Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada.
- Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers", Rathburn composed music for documentaries, short films, as well as such feature films as Drylanders (1963), Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964), Waiting for Caroline (1969) and Who Has Seen the Wind (1977).
- Rathburn was the subject of a 1995 NFB documentary by Louis Hone titled Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot...
- He Scores.
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