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name: "Ronald Stein"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ronald-stein"
fi1m_id: "ronald-stein"
imdb_id: "nm0006300"
tmdb_id: 91999
wikidata_id: "Q3441559"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 April 1930"
died: "15 August 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:48:20.991781+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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# Ronald Stein

## Identity

Ronald Stein

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ronald-stein
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ronald-stein
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006300
- **TMDB ID:** 91999
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3441559
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stein, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3441559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91999

Composer. Born 12 April 1930 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 15 August 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 April 1930, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 15 August 1988
- **Also known as:** Leonard Morand, Ronald S. Stein
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stein, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3441559, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91999

## Biography

Ronald Stein (1930–1988) was an American film composer, conductor and pianist. He studied at Washington University in St Louis, the Yale School of Music and the University of Southern California. After military service he worked as a rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor before entering film music in 1955.

From 1955 to 1959 he served as music director for American International Pictures, composing scores for dozens of low-budget horror, science-fiction and exploitation films directed or produced by Roger Corman. His credits from this period include *Attack of the Crab Monsters* (1957), *Attack of the 50 Foot Woman* (1958), *The Little Shop of Horrors* (1960), *The Premature Burial* (1962), *The Haunted Palace* (1963) and *Dementia 13* (1963). He later provided music for *Spider Baby* (1967) and stock music for *Targets* (1968).

Stein also scored higher-profile productions such as Francis Ford Coppola’s *The Rain People* (1969) and Richard Rush’s *Getting Straight* (1970). He taught composition and related subjects at California State University, Northridge and the University of Colorado Denver. He died in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Targets* (1968), Fi1m 82, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/targets.md)

## Complete filmography (70)

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

- *The Naked Monster* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Age of Consent* (1985), Music
- *Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Ghosts That Still Walk* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Prisoners* (1975), Music
- *Black Mama, White Mama* (1973), Sound Effects Editor
- *The Murder of Julius Caesar* (1972), Music, Supervising Editor
- *Getting Straight* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *The Rain People* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Mars Needs Women* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Targets* (1968), Music — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/targets.md)
- *Psych-Out* (1968), Original Music Composer, Music
- *Curse of the Swamp Creature* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Spider Baby* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Eye Creatures* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Creature of Destruction* (1967), Music
- *Blood Bath* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Queen of Blood* (1966), Music Editor, Music
- *Rat Fink* (1965), Music
- *Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Bounty Killer* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Parisienne and the Prudes* (1964), Associate Producer, Music
- *Dementia 13* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *The Haunted Palace* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *The Young and the Brave* (1963), Music
- *The Terror* (1963), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Dime with a Halo* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Stakeout!* (1962), Music
- *The Underwater City* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Journey to the Seventh Planet* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *The Premature Burial* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *The Bashful Elephant* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Devil's Partner* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Atlas* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Last Woman on Earth* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Raymie* (1960), Music
- *The Girl in Lovers Lane* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *The Little Shop of Horrors* (1960), Music
- *The Threat* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Too Soon to Love* (1960), Music
- *Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Diary of a High School Bride* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Legend of Tom Dooley* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Tank Commandos* (1959), Music
- *Paratroop Command* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *She Gods of Shark Reef* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Hot Rod Gang* (1958), Music Supervisor
- *The Littlest Hobo* (1958), Music
- *High School Hellcats* (1958), Music
- *The Bonnie Parker Story* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Attack of the 50 Foot Woman* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Suicide Battalion* (1958), Music
- *Jet Attack* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Sorority Girl* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Reform School Girl* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Invasion of the Saucer Men* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Dragstrip Girl* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Rock All Night* (1957), Music
- *The Undead* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Attack of the Crab Monsters* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Not of This Earth* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Naked Paradise* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The She-Creature* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *It Conquered the World* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Girls in Prison* (1956), Music
- *The Oklahoma Woman* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Gunslinger* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Day the World Ended* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues* (1955), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Apache Woman* (1955), Original Music Composer

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