- He was a concert composer when his friend James Dean introduced him to director Elia Kazan. Kazan asked the composer to write the score for "East of Eden," thus beginning Rosenman's film career.
- He was a good friend of Leonard Nimoy, who hired him to compose the score for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
- Oscar and Emmy award-winning American film composer, a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. Studied composition under Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola. In addition to his often modernistic film scores (of which a notable example is The Cobweb (1955)), he wrote a double-bass concerto, two violin concertos and, in 1996, the "Dinosaur" symphony.
- Served in the Pacific with the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.
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