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Albert Glasser was an American composer and conductor, educated at USC through an Alchin Chair Foundation scholarship. One of the most prolific B-movie composers, Albert Glasser started off as a copyist in the music department at Warner Brothers in the late 1930s, learning the art of film scoring from scratch while working under such big guns as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He graduated to orchestrating, and by the mid-'40s was composing and directing his own scores.

In 1937 he won the California Composers Contest, and won the Southern California Contest in 1945. He conducted various orchestras, and was staff arranger for a film company for four years. For the US War Department, he composed music for Frank Capra's Special Services Unit and for Office of War Information radio shows for overseas broadcasts. For radio, he composed scores for "Hopalong Cassidy", "Clyde Beatty", and "Tarzan". Joining ASCAP in 1950, his popular-song compositions include "Urubu", "The Cisco Kid", "Someday" and "I Remember Your Love".

A hard, fast worker, Glasser found his musical skills put to the test in the frantic, down-to-the-wire world of B-picture making. He scored a staggering 135 movies between 1944 and 1962, not counting at least 35 features for which he received no credit.

In addition to scoring 300 television shows and 450 radio programs, he arranged and conducted for noted American operetta composer Rudolf Friml and orchestrated for Ferde Grofé Sr. (with whom he first collaborated on the sci-fi classic ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950).

He passed away in L.A. on May 4th 1998 after a fatal heart attack.

Musician, Composer, Orchestrator and Conductor.

A son of Joseph Glasser and Mary Esterman. He attended the University of Southern California on a scholarship in 1934 and began his career in Hollywood at Warner Brothers as a music copyist. At rock-bottom he continued upward by selling his talents uncredited to any producer or studio who was willing to toss pocket change his way. After paying his dues and honing his craft through a string of Roy Rogers and Cisco Kid westerns for Republic Pictures, he snagged his first screen credit for PRC's horror opus, "The Monster Maker" in 1944. From then on, Mr. Glasser emerged as a prolific artist; composing, scoring and conducting on various levels in the field of motion pictures, radio and later, television. From low-budget poverty row quickies to high-gloss M-G-M productions, he was quick and efficient. By this reputation, he worked on several films with independent producer Robert Lippert, the most memorable of these being "Rocketship X-M" in 1950, a collaboration with composer Ferde Grofénd Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman on theremin. Other noteworthy films include "Murder Is My Beat", directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and "Please Murder Me!" starring Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury. His legacy and cult status endures through his memorable music scores for many science fiction films, most of which were produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon: "Indestructible Man", "Monster from Green Hell", "Beginning of the End", "The Cyclops", The Amazing Colossal Man", "War of the Colossal Beast", "Earth vs. the Spider", "Attack of the Puppet People" and "Confessions of an Opium Eater" starring Vincent Price among others.