---
name: "Bert Shefter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bert-shefter"
fi1m_id: "bert-shefter"
imdb_id: "nm0006286"
tmdb_id: 4683
wikidata_id: "Q4895300"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "15 May 1902"
died: "29 June 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:55:15.087753+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bert Shefter

## Identity

Bert Shefter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bert-shefter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bert-shefter
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006286
- **TMDB ID:** 4683
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4895300
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Shefter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895300, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006286/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4683

Composer. Born 15 May 1902 in Poltava, Poltavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now in Poltavs'ka oblast', Ukraine]. Died 29 June 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 15 May 1902, Poltava, Poltavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now in Poltavs'ka oblast', Ukraine]
- **Died:** 29 June 1999
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Shefter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895300, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006286/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4683

## Biography

Bert Shefter (1902–1999) was a Russian-born American composer, pianist and conductor who worked primarily in film and television. Born in Poltava, then part of the Russian Empire, he trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Damrosch Institute after emigrating to the United States. He first gained recognition as one half of the piano duo Shefter & Gould with Morton Gould, performing and recording classical and popular music in the 1930s, and later led his own orchestra.

Shefter entered film scoring in the early 1950s, initially with Lippert Pictures. He is best known for his long collaboration with composer Paul Sawtell from 1956 to 1971, providing original music for numerous low-budget science-fiction and horror films, including *It! The Terror from Beyond Space* (1958), *Return of the Fly* (1959), *The Lost World* (1960), *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (1961), *Jack the Giant Killer* (1962), *The Last Man on Earth* (1964) and *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965). He also contributed to several Russ Meyer exploitation pictures and served as music supervisor on television series such as *Hawaiian Eye* (1959–1963). Shefter retired in the mid-1970s.

*Sources: imdb.com, wikiwand.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), Fi1m 75, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *They Call Him Marcado* (1971), Original Music Composer, Music
- *Emiliano Zapata* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *The Christine Jorgensen Story* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *The Bubble* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)
- *Motorpsycho!* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Curse of the Fly* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Man on Earth* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Thunder Island* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *King Kong vs. Godzilla* (1963), Music
- *Jack the Giant Killer* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *About Time* (1962), Music Supervisor
- *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Misty* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Operation Bottleneck* (1961), Music
- *The Long Rope* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Police Dog Story* (1961), Music
- *Five Guns to Tombstone* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Tess of the Storm Country* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Walking Target* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Lost World* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Cage of Evil* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Music Box Kid* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Noose for a Gunman* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Virgin Sacrifice* (1960), Music
- *Three Came to Kill* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *A Dog's Best Friend* (1959), Music
- *Vice Raid* (1959), Music
- *Return of the Fly* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Circus* (1959), Music
- *Gigantis, the Fire Monster* (1959), Music
- *The Cosmic Man* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Machete* (1958), Music
- *Villa!!* (1958), Music
- *Wind Across the Everglades* (1958), Music
- *The Fiend Who Walked the West* (1958), Music
- *It! The Terror from Beyond Space* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Sierra Baron* (1958), Music
- *Cattle Empire* (1958), Music
- *Ambush at Cimarron Pass* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Rodan! The Flying Monster* (1957), Music
- *The Deerslayer* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Gun Duel in Durango* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *She Devil* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Kronos* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *5 Steps to Danger* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *The Desperados Are in Town* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Chase* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Sins of Jezebel* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *No Escape* (1953), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Leave It to the Marines* (1951), Music
- *Pier 23* (1951), Music
- *Roaring City* (1951), Music
- *Danger Zone* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *M* (1951), Music Director
- *Fingerprints Don't Lie* (1951), Music
- *One Too Many* (1950), Music, Conductor

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