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Popular As	Jon Burlingame
Occupation	Writer
Age	96 years old
Zodiac Sign	Gemini
Born	May 22, 1928 ()
Birthday	May 22
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JON BURLINGAME is the nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and the Los Angeles Times and has also written on the topic for The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, The Hollywood Reporter, Premiere, Emmy, and Video Review.

He is the author of four books, including the best-selling, award-winning "The Music of James Bond," as well as the TV-music history "TV's Biggest Hits" and the film-composer encyclopedia "Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks.

"Burlingame teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California and has often hosted concerts and film-music events, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles; appeared on stage to discuss film music at the Kennedy Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Television Academy; and penned the notes for concerts from New York's Carnegie Hall to London's Royal Albert Hall and beyond.

He is the winner of the Deems Taylor Award for music journalism and a BMI special citation for his writings and interviews on film and TV composers.He has appeared on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and other networks; and wrote the five-part series "The Score" for producer Phil Ramone.

He hosted and produced a series of radio specials on great film composers for KUSC-FM; has contributed music-related commentaries to numerous DVDs; and written the liner notes for dozens of soundtrack albums over the past 30 years.

He himself has produced several albums of classic television scores, including The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dr. Kildare and Mission: Impossible.