Editing David Amram (section)

=== Film and television ===
In 1959, Amram wrote the score for and appeared in the [[Robert Frank]]/[[Alfred Leslie]] short film ''[[Pull My Daisy]]'', which featured [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Peter Orlovsky]] and [[Gregory Corso]].<ref name="NYPL" />

He composed scores for the [[Elia Kazan]] films ''[[Splendor in the Grass]]'' (1961)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200019517/|title=SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS|website=Loc.gov|access-date=August 13, 2021}}</ref> and ''[[The Arrangement (film)|The Arrangement]]'' (1969),<ref name="Duffie" /> and for the [[John Frankenheimer]] films ''[[The Young Savages]]'' (1961)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200020746/|title=THE YOUNG SAVAGES|website=Loc.gov|access-date=August 13, 2021}}</ref> and ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soundtrack.net/album/the-manchurian-candidate/|title=The Manchurian Candidate Soundtrack (1962, 2004)|website=Soundtrack.net|access-date=August 13, 2021}}</ref> (He composed the score for Frankenheimer's 1964 film ''[[Seven Days in May]]'', but it was rejected and replaced with a score by [[Jerry Goldsmith]].)<ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23341 ''Seven Days in May'', chronicle and credits] at the [[American Film Institute]]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170617155907/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b586050 ''Seven Days in May'', chronicle and credits] at the [[British Film Institute]]</ref>

Amram composed the score for the 2001 documentary ''Boys of Winter'', about the lives of 1940s–50s [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] baseball stars [[Pee Wee Reese]] and [[Carl Erskine]]. The feature was awarded the "Best Documentary Film" honor at that year's New York Independent Film Festival.<ref>[https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/davidamram David Amram, biography] at ''[[All About Jazz]]''</ref> In 2013, he wrote the score for the [[Michael Patrick Kelly]] comedy-drama ''[[Isn't It Delicious]]'', which starred [[Kathleen Chalfant]] and [[Keir Dullea]].<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/isnt-delicious-film-review-757655 Scheck, Frank, "''Isn't It Delicious'': Film Review"], ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', Dec. 16, 2014</ref>