John Strauss

John Leonard Strauss (April 28, 1920 – February 14, 2011) was an American television and film composer and music editor. Strauss co-wrote the theme song for the NBC television series, Car 54, Where Are You?, with Nat Hiken. He also won a Grammy Award for his work as the producer of the soundtrack for the 1984 film, Amadeus. He also frequently collaborated with director Woody Allen in his films, including Take the Money and Run in 1969 and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) in 1972. but the marriage ended in divorce in 1976 when he came out as bisexual. The couple had two sons, Larry Strauss' partner, Lionel Friedman, died in 2003.

A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Strauss died in the city on February 14, 2011, of Parkinson's disease, at the age of 90.