---
name: "David Rose"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-rose-41410"
fi1m_id: "david-rose-41410"
imdb_id: "nm0741328"
tmdb_id: 41410
wikidata_id: "Q937852"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "15 June 1910"
died: "23 August 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:35:30.200696+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."
---

# David Rose

## Identity

David Rose

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-rose-41410
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-rose-41410
- **IMDb ID:** nm0741328
- **TMDB ID:** 41410
- **Wikidata ID:** Q937852
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(songwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937852, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741328/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41410

Composer. Born 15 June 1910 in London, England, UK. Died 23 August 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 15 June 1910, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 23 August 1990
- **Active:** 1959–1967
- **Also known as:** Ray Llewellyn, Sgt. David Rose, Dave Rose
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(songwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937852, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741328/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41410

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Hombre*](https://film.one/film/hombre.md) (77)

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## Biography

David Rose was a British-born composer, songwriter, arranger and orchestra leader who worked primarily in Hollywood. Born in London in 1910 and raised in Chicago, he scored numerous films and television series, including *Hombre* (1967) and *Bonanza* (1959), for which he composed the theme and incidental music under the pseudonym Ray Llewellyn.

Rose served as musical director for *The Red Skelton Show* for two decades and provided scores or themes for series such as *Little House on the Prairie* and *Highway to Heaven*. He received four Primetime Emmy Awards for his television work. His film credits also include *Operation Petticoat* (1959) and *Please Don't Eat the Daisies* (1960). Rose died in Burbank, California, in 1990.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hombre* (1967), Fi1m 77, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/hombre.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *Highway to Heaven* (1984), series, Main Title Theme Composer, Original Music Composer
- *Little House: The Last Farewell* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Little House: Bless All the Dear Children* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Little House: Look Back to Yesterday* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Father Murphy* (1981), series, Original Music Composer
- *Suddenly, Love* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Killing Stone* (1978), Music
- *Ransom for Alice!* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Mosquito the Defiler* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *The Loneliest Runner* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), series, Original Music Composer
- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), Music
- *A Dream for Christmas* (1973), Music
- *You and Me and Him* (1973), Producer
- *Banacek* (1972), series, Music
- *The Devil and Miss Sarah* (1971), Music
- *Along Came a Spider* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Bracken's World* (1969), series, Original Music Composer, Main Title Theme Composer
- *The High Chaparral* (1967), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hombre* (1967), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/hombre.md)
- *Never Too Late* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Case of the Dangerous Robin* (1960), series, Music
- *Astaire Time* (1960), Music Director
- *Please Don't Eat the Daisies* (1960), Music
- *Operation Petticoat* (1959), Music
- *Another Evening with Fred Astaire* (1959), Music Director
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, Original Music Composer
- *An Evening with Fred Astaire* (1958), Music Director
- *Public Pigeon No. 1* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Jupiter's Darling* (1955), Conductor, Music Arranger
- *Bright Road* (1953), Music
- *Confidentially Connie* (1953), Music
- *Everything I Have Is Yours* (1952), Music Director, Original Music Composer
- *Young Man with Ideas* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Texas Carnival* (1951), Music Director
- *The Underworld Story* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Wonder Man* (1945), as Songs
- *Winged Victory* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *The Princess and the Pirate* (1944), Music
- *Resisting Enemy Interrogation* (1944), Music
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1940), as Songs

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1946: Best Original Song (nominated), for *So in Love*
- 1945: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Princess and the Pirate*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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