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name: "Rudolph G. Kopp"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "22 March 1887"
died: "20 February 1972"
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average_fi1m_score: 78
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updated: "2026-09-19T21:57:58.425626+00:00"
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# Rudolph G. Kopp

Composer. Born 22 March 1887 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 20 February 1972.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 22 March 1887, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- **Died:** 20 February 1972
- **Also known as:** Rudolph Kopp, Rudy Kopp
- **Frequently works with:** [John Leipold](https://film.one/person/john-leipold.md), [W. Franke Harling](https://film.one/person/w-franke-harling.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_G._Kopp, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3446771, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13337

## Biography

Rudolph G. Kopp (also credited as Rudolph Kopp or Rudy Kopp) was an Austrian-born American composer of film scores. Born in Vienna in 1887, he settled in the United States and performed as a member of the Brahms String Quintet in the Los Angeles area from 1910 to 1917 before entering the film industry in the early 1930s.

He worked as a staff composer and musical director for Paramount Pictures in the 1930s and later for MGM until the late 1950s. His credits include *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), *Shanghai Express* (1932), *One Hour with You* (1932), *The Sign of the Cross* (1932), *Cleopatra* (1934), *I'm No Angel* (1933), *Lady in the Lake* (1946), *Mystery Street* (1950) and *Vengeance Valley* (1951). He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1972.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *One Hour with You* (1932), Fi1m 77, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/one-hour-with-you.md)
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

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

- *The Great Diamond Robbery* (1954), Music Director
- *Nostradamus and the Queen* (1953), Music Director
- *Let's Ask Nostradamus* (1953), Music
- *Cry of the Hunted* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Desperate Search* (1952), Music Director
- *Bannerline* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Calling Bulldog Drummond* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story* (1951), Music Supervisor
- *Vengeance Valley* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Mystery Street* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Ambush* (1950), Music
- *The Doctor and the Girl* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *City of Children* (1949), Music Director
- *Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership* (1949), Music
- *Mr. Whitney Had a Notion* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Clues to Adventure* (1949), Music Director
- *Annie Was a Wonder* (1949), Music
- *Tenth Avenue Angel* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *The Amazing Mr. Nordill* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Cynthia* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Lady in the Lake* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Gallant Bess* (1946), Music
- *The Horse with the Human Mind* (1946), Music
- *You Can't Get Away with Murder* (1939), Orchestrator
- *A Girl's Best Years* (1936), Music
- *The Voice of Bugle Ann* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *The Crusades* (1935), as Songs
- *Cleopatra* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Thirty Day Princess* (1934), Additional Music
- *I'm No Angel* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Murders in the Zoo* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *King of the Jungle* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Luxury Liner* (1933), Music
- *No Man of Her Own* (1932), Additional Music
- *The Sign of the Cross* (1932), Music
- *Devil and the Deep* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Million Dollar Legs* (1932), Music
- *The Man from Yesterday* (1932), Music
- *Merrily We Go to Hell* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Sinners in the Sun* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *This Is the Night* (1932), Additional Music
- *One Hour with You* (1932), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/one-hour-with-you.md)
- *Strangers in Love* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)
- *Two Kinds of Women* (1932), Music
- *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), Music
- *Rich Man's Folly* (1931), Music
- *24 Hours* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Daughter of the Dragon* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Vice Squad* (1931), Original Music Composer

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