Composer Frank Lewin was a Hollywood mainstay during the 1960s, most notably scoring the acclaimed CBS dramas The Defenders and The Nurses. Born March 27, 1925, in Breslau, Germany, Lewin was 14 when his family relocated to Cuba in flight from the Nazis. In 1940 they settled in New York City, where he later studied composition under Felix Devo at the Baldwin Conservatory. Lewin also studied with Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Hans David at Southern Methodist University and with Roy Harris in Logan, UT, before earning his Bachelor of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music in 1951 under Richard Donovan and Paul Hindemith. After scoring episodes of the little-remembered 1956 drama I Spy (not to be confused with the later Bill Cosby series of the same name), Lewin first earned widespread notice via the 1958 musical comedy It's Cultural. A year later, producer Herbert Brodkin tapped him to score the cop drama Brenner.
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