Biography
Buddy G. DeSylva was an American songwriter, film producer and record executive. Born George Gard DeSylva in New York City on 27 January 1895, he grew up in California and attended the University of Southern California. He began writing songs for the stage in the late 1910s, working with Al Jolson and later forming the successful Tin Pan Alley team of DeSylva, Brown and Henderson.
DeSylva moved into film production in the 1930s, working first at Fox and then at Paramount Pictures, where he became executive producer in 1941. He received a producer credit on The Lady Eve (1941) and executive producer credits on films including The Uninvited (1944), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), I Married a Witch (1942) and Ministry of Fear (1944). In 1942 he co-founded Capitol Records with Johnny Mercer and Glenn Wallichs. He died in Los Angeles on 11 July 1950.
