Gordon Zahler(1926-1975)
- Music Department
- Sound Department
- Composer
Los Angeles native Gordon Robert Zahler was a significant innovator in
the development of music and sound effects in post war Hollywood.
Zahler was born on February 10, 1926, the son of songwriter
Lee Zahler and Rose Rosenberg. When he was
just fourteen Zahler broke his neck while attempting a gymnastic feat
at a Pasadena school. Eventually the medical bills he and later his
father (who died in 1947) generated would plunge the family deeply into
debt. Gordon Zahler's amazing ability at the age of twenty-one to
escape poverty and instead eke out a successful Hollywood career is
chronicled in the book "Wheeling the Deal: The Outrageous Legend of
Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's Flashiest Quadriplegic" (2006) by Chip
Jacobs (Zahler's nephew).
Gordon Robert Zahler passed away in the City of Angels on December 22, 1975 at the age of forty-nine. He was survived by his wife, the former Judy M. Wetzel, whom he'd married in Santa Barbara, California on August 31, 1962.
The Pasadena Weekly, May 5, 2006, California Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, Rosenberg Family Genealogy
Gordon Robert Zahler passed away in the City of Angels on December 22, 1975 at the age of forty-nine. He was survived by his wife, the former Judy M. Wetzel, whom he'd married in Santa Barbara, California on August 31, 1962.
The Pasadena Weekly, May 5, 2006, California Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, Rosenberg Family Genealogy
