A graduate of Juilliard School of Music, Herschel Burke Gilbert (1918-2003) was an orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and themes. It is estimated his compositions had been used in at least three thousand individual episodes of various television series. Many of these were produced by Four Star Television when Gilbert was the Music Director. Besides Burker's Law, the most notable is, The Rifleman, the first television series to have original music themes composed specifically for certain characters, moods, or scenes. Prior, the scores were chosen from CBS's music library. Gilbert wrote music cues for countless series as well, Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Superman, and Leave It to Beaver come to mind. His film work was just as diverse, the most popular being the classic, It's a Wonderful Life.
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