Gerry and Franca Mulligan Foundation
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| 1958 | I Want To Live |
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| Performed with Shelly Mann, Art Farmer, Bud Shank, Red Mitchell,
and an All Star Jazz Orchestra. |
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| 1960 | Bells Are Ringing |
| Performed on saxophone, and acted as Judy Holliday's blind date. |
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| 1960 | The Rat Race |
| Performed as Tony Curtis' bandleader on a cruise ship, where he
plays an out chorus on tenor to Curtis's baritone, and then advises
the young man to mix with the customers instead of writing love letters
to Debbie Reynolds back in New York. |
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| 1960 | The Subterraneans |
| Featured playing Andre Previn's music, and acting in the role of
a beatnik priest who uses jazz in the service of evangelism. |
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| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns |
| Wrote the title tune "A Thousand Clowns", for which he received
his first screen composer's credit. |
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| 1966 | The Fortune Cookie |
| Performed Andre Previn's score. |
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| 1967 | Luv |
| Composed and performed the music. With the creative control of the
score, he used not just the distinctive sound of his saxophone, but
showed himself capable of great originality in expressing the suggestiveness
of jazz by using a full jazz orchestra and a classically performed
violin and piano duet. He also employed Sousa-style band music, accordian
and mandolin love songs, and a lietmotif of classic Dixieland. |
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| 1972 | The Hot Rock |
| Has important solo leads in Quincy Jones's score for this Robert
Redford film. His horn work is featured prominently on seven of the
sound track album's twelve cuts. |
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| 1977 | Pele |
| In this documentary honoring the great Brazilian soccer star, he
peformed on soprano and baritone saxophones, collaborating with such
Brazilian percussionists as Laudir de Oliveira an the legendary Chacal. |
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| 1977 | La Menace |
| He wrote his most important film score for French director Alain
Corneau's "La Menace", featuring Yves Montand. The recorded version
employed a ten-piece group, the most promonant features of which,
aside from Mulligan's horn, are the acoustic and electronic pianos
and Moog and Obeheim synthesizers. The score's technique of rephrasing
an initial line through various tempos, time signatures, and orchestral
settings,gives the work a unified feeling, much like an extended classical
piece, effects he develop in his symphonic works premiered a few years
later. |
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| 1992 | The Player |
| Featured his tune "Tema Para Jobim" ("Theme for Jobim"). |
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| 1997 | I'm Not Rappaport |
| Originally written by Herb Gardner as a stage play, the film version
featured Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis. Gerry Mulligan composed and
performed the oroginal theme tune "I'm Not Rappaport" which was featured
throughout the film. |
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| 1997 | L.A. Confidential |
| Featured the tune "Makin' Whoopee", performed by Gerry Mulligan
and Chet Baker. |
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| 1997 | The Ice Storm |
| Featured the tune "Night Lights", written and performed by Gerry
Mulligan, from his album of the same name. |