Bernardo Segall made his professional debut as a pianist at age 9 in his native
Campinas,
Brazil. At Age 16 he traveled to the United States, where he studied with
Alexander Siloti and, at 21, made his American debut at New York's Town Hall, later performing in orchestras such as the
New York Philharmonic. Segall also had an uncle who was a well-known painter in Brazil,
Lasar Segall. He scored films such as
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery starring
Steve McQueen,
The Luck of Ginger Coffey and
Custer of the West, and wrote music for TV series including
Columbo,
Airwolf,
Nichols (TV series), and the 1976 documentary
To Fly!. Segall died in 1993. ==Selected filmography==