Clifford McCarty, 76; Film Scholar Wrote Books on Bogart, Others

Clifford McCarty, 76, the author and coauthor of several books about film, including volumes on Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart movies and another on American film composers, died Aug. 13 at his home in Topanga, said his friend Jon Burlingame. McCarty had suffered from emphysema.

The writer was a founder of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music -- now the Film Music Society -- and editor of its quarterly journal, the Cue Sheet, in the mid-1980s.

McCarty was born in Los Angeles in 1929 and graduated from what was then Los Angeles State College. For many years, he operated the Boulevard Bookshop. The store on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles closed in 1980. He later ran a mail-order book business out of his home.