Frank J. Worth; Composer, Conductor

Frank J. Worth, 86, a composer and conductor who emigrated from Hungary as a boy and began his career playing in vaudeville pit orchestras and accompanying silent movies. After working as a conductor and arranger for radio stations in the Midwest, he came to California where he wrote and arranged for such radio shows as “First Nighter,” “Roy Rogers,” “Those Websters,” “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” and others. He later scored and conducted for many of the Walt Disney nature programs on TV. Worth also composed symphonies, concertos for such instruments as harp and cello and string quartets. In Woodland Hills on May 3 of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease.