Biography
Morton Stevens was an American composer and conductor. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 1950 and began his career as an arranger and conductor for Sammy Davis Jr. He later worked with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Liza Minnelli, and served as music director for CBS West Coast operations from 1965.
Stevens is best known for composing the theme music for the television series Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received further Emmy nominations for his work on series including Gunsmoke and Police Woman, and scored miniseries such as Masada (1981) and Wheels (1978).
His film scores include Hardly Working (1980), Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) and Cracking Up (1983). Stevens died on 11 November 1991.
