Robert O. Ragland

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Robert O. Ragland (born in Chicago, July 3, 1931) is an American motion picture composer. Ragland has had a diverse and prolific career, and has scored over fifty films.

Ragland attended Northwestern University and also earned degrees at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He served as a music arranger for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in his early years.

He turned to film music in 1968. Ragland created the scores for "Seven Alone", "Abby", "Project: Kill", "Return to Macon County", United Artists' "Sharks Treasure", "Grizzly", "Mansion of the Doomed", "Q: The Winged Serpent", Cannon Films' "10 To Midnight", "The Fear", Warner Bros. "Plato's Run" and recently for "Crime and Punishment".

Ragland is as of 2006 semi-retired.

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