Alfred "Pappy" Newman was a noted film composer.

He was responsible for the scores of literally hundreds of movies, including Airport, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He won nine Oscars in the process.

He also composed the 20th Century-Fox theme. His brother Lionel Newman also won an Oscar for his Dr. Doolittle score, and nephew Randy Newman continued in the family tradition, writing award-winning music for such films as Toy Story. (Randy Newman also played the singing bush in Three Amigos.)

When writers were putting together "The Henry Morgan Radio Show," they named one of the characters Alfred Newman after the composer.

A few years later some cartoonists were looking for a name for their mascot, a character borrowed from a turn-of-the-century dental advertisement. Mad magazine first dubbed the toothless, grinning redhead Malvin Koznowski, but then decided instead to steal a name from "The Henry Morgan Radio Show."

The "What, Me Worry" kid became known as Alfred E. Newman.