---
name: "Neal Hefti"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/neal-hefti"
fi1m_id: "neal-hefti"
imdb_id: "nm0006126"
tmdb_id: 16891
wikidata_id: "Q463224"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "29 October 1922"
died: "11 October 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T08:16:41.105559+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."
---

# Neal Hefti

## Identity

Neal Hefti

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/neal-hefti
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** neal-hefti
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006126
- **TMDB ID:** 16891
- **Wikidata ID:** Q463224
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Hefti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16891

Composer. Born 29 October 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.. Died 11 October 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 29 October 1922, Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.
- **Died:** 11 October 2008
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Hefti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16891

## Biography

Neal Hefti was an American composer, arranger and jazz trumpeter. Born in Hastings, Nebraska, he began his career playing trumpet and writing arrangements for big bands including those of Woody Herman and Count Basie in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the 1960s he composed scores for films and television, including *Sex and the Single Girl* (1964), *How to Murder Your Wife* (1965), *Boeing, Boeing* (1965), *Duel at Diablo* (1966), *Barefoot in the Park* (1967), *The Odd Couple* (1968) and *A New Leaf* (1971). He also wrote the theme for the 1960s television series *Batman*. Hefti died in Toluca Lake, California, in 2008.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A New Leaf* (1971), Fi1m 83, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/a-new-leaf.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet* (2020), as Theme Song Performance
- *Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Conspiracy of Terror* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Catch-22* (1973), Music
- *The 500 Pound Jerk* (1973), Music
- *The Trouble With People* (1972), Music Director
- *Last of the Red Hot Lovers* (1972), Music
- *A New Leaf* (1971), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/a-new-leaf.md)
- *The Odd Couple* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *P.J.* (1968), Music
- *Barefoot in the Park* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Duel at Diablo* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Lord Love a Duck* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Boeing, Boeing* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Harlow* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Synanon* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *How to Murder Your Wife* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Sex and the Single Girl* (1964), Music
- *Music at the Meadowbrook* (1953), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Neal Hefti, New York (1946)](https://film.one/media/person/5519992/gallery-22df8a0bfd49.jpg) Neal Hefti, New York (1946) — William p. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Neal_Hefti%2C_New_York%2C_ca._Dec._1946_%28William_P._Gottlieb_04031%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Neal Hefti](https://film.one/media/person/5519992/gallery-18afaef9fd10.jpg) Neal Hefti — Wally Wingert, 4-i's Production, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Neal_Hefti.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Neal Hefti](https://film.one/media/person/5519992/gallery-da82eecd50d3.jpg) Neal Hefti — Image via TMDB

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