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name: "Denny Zeitlin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/denny-zeitlin"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "10 April 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T03:29:00.580317+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."
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# Denny Zeitlin

Composer. Born 10 April 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 10 April 1938, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Zeitlin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189689, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0954419/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70725

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Invasion of the Body Snatchers*](https://film.one/film/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers.md) (86)

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## Biography

Denny Zeitlin is an American jazz pianist, composer and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Born on 10 April 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, he has maintained parallel careers in music and medicine since the 1960s.

He composed the score for the 1978 film *Invasion of the Body Snatchers*, his only film score. Since 1963 he has recorded more than 100 compositions and won first place in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1978), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *A Walking Tour of Sesame Street* (1979), as Songs
- *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1978), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers.md)

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