Pianist, composer, conductor, author and songwriter, educated at the
Temple School of Music, the French Conservatory (with Fouchet and
Decroux), and at the Tadlewski Institute in Nice. He was a pianist in
the Jim Europe orchestra, and then with the New York Syncopated
Orchestra. He was a soloist in night clubs and theatres in New York,
London and Paris, and authored the book "Syncopation". Joining ASCAP in
1955, his chief musical collaborator was Clarence Muse. His
popular-song compositions include "No More Sleepy Time", "The Little
Things You Do" and "The Hills Are Mine".
During the piano sequences with Dooley Wilson in "Casablanca", Elliot
Carpenter played the piano just offscreen, while Dooley fingered the
keyboard on camera.