Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (9 September 1922 – 3 December 2000) was an American composer and music producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 until his retirement in 1986, except from 1963 to 1973, when the primary music director was Ted Nichols. Curtin was a native of Downey, California, and had one son, Chris, with his wife, Elizabeth.
Curtin composed many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons' popular theme songs, including The Flintstones until 1981, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, SuperFriends, Josie and the Pussy Cats, and The New Scooby-Doo Movies and more animated spinoffs until 1986. Beginning in 1959, Curtin also composed many of the stock tunes used as incidental music in the various Hanna-Barbera series.
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- Hoyt Curtin at the Internet Movie Database