Lyn Murray

Television Murray worked as a conductor, arranger and producer with such artists as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Burl Ives at CBS prior to moving to NBC in 1947. The Lyn Murray Singers appeared on Broadway in Finian's Rainbow (1948), singing arrangements written by Murray for the production. He composed the incidental music for 35 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour between 1962 and 1965 and for 46 episodes of Dragnet 1967 between 1967 and 1969.

Film In 1950, Murray moved to Hollywood and provided vocal arrangements for Walt Disney's 1950 film Cinderella and began composing scores for feature films, including The Prowler (1951), To Catch a Thief (1955), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), Escape from Zahrain (1962), Come Fly with Me (1963), Wives and Lovers (1963), Promise Her Anything (1965), Rosie! (1967), Strategy of Terror (1969), The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970) and Love Hate Love (1971), as well as creating episodic underscoring for television shows such as The Virginian (1962), Daniel Boone (1964), The Time Tunnel (1966), Dragnet (1967), and the unaired pilot for Mr. Terrific.

Stage Arranging choral music for This Is the Army was Murray's first Broadway experience. He went on to do vocal arrangements for Swingin' the Dream (1939), Panama Hattie (1940–1942), Let's Face It! (1941–1943), and Finian's Rainbow (1947–1948; 2009–2010).

Recognition Murray won an Emmy Award in 1986 for his score to the National Geographic special Miraculous Machines.

Family Murray was married for a time to Carol Irwin in 1940, and then to fashion historian Margaret Pexton but they divorced in 1982.

Death Murray lived for many years in Pacific Palisades, California, and died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, aged 79.