Carl Davis
Born: 1936-10-28 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2023-08-03
Known For: Sound
Biography
Carl Davis was an American music composer and conductor for film and television. He was the driving force behind the reinvention of the silent movie for this generation and wrote the score to some of the most loved and remembered British television dramas. Davis was a conductor and composer of symphonic works, as well as a notable writer for the ballet.
Filmography
2016
- Florence Foster Jenkins as Orlando Adams
- Ethel & Ernest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Composing Napoleon as Self
2012
- The Understudy as Mr. Davidovitz
2007
- Cranford ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- Garbo ... (Orchestrator)
2003
- Promoted to Glory ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- The Book of Eve ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- The Great Gatsby ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lon Chaney: A thousand faces ... (Music)
1999
- Topsy-Turvy ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Greatest Store in the World ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Goodnight, Mister Tom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Universal Horror ... (Additional Music)
- Le radeau de la Méduse ... (Original Music Composer)
1997
- A Dance to the Music of Time ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- An Audience with Charles Dickens ... (Music)
1995
- Pride and Prejudice ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Queen's Nose as Choral Plant
- Oliver's Travels ... (Original Music Composer)
- Anne Frank Remembered ... (Music)
1994
- The Return of the Native ... (Music)
- Widows' Peak ... (Original Music Composer)
- Liberation ... (Original Music Composer)
- George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin ... (Music)
1993
- A Year in Provence ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Trial ... (Original Music Composer)
- Voyage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Genghis Cohn ... (Original Music Composer)
- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- A Sense of History ... (Original Music Composer)
- Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Separate But Equal ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Black Velvet Gown ... (Music)
- The Crucifer of Blood ... (Original Music Composer)
- Echoes That Remain ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past as Self
1990
- Frankenstein Unbound ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story ... (Music)
- Crossing to Freedom ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- Scandal ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Rainbow ... (Original Music Composer)
- Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius ... (Music)
- Somewhere to Run ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Yellow Wallpaper ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- The Play on One ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl in a Swing ... (Original Music Composer)
- Journey's End ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow ... (Original Music Composer)
- The First Eden ... (Music Editor)
1986
- Hotel du Lac ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Screen Two ... (Original Music Composer)
- King David ... (Original Music Composer)
- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey ... (Original Music Composer)
- Silas Marner ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Day the Universe Changed ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- A Song for Europe ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fragments of Isabella ... (Music)
1984
- The Far Pavilions ... (Original Music Composer)
- Champions ... (Music)
- Sakharov ... (Original Music Composer)
- Down in the Valley ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Unknown Chaplin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Macbeth ... (Original Music Composer)
- Arms and the Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Weather in the Streets ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Aerodrome ... (Original Music Composer)
- Landscape ... (Music)
1982
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Praying Mantis ... (Original Music Composer)
- L’Elegance ... (Music)
- Home Sweet Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Schoolgirl Chums ... (Original Music Composer)
1981
- Private Schulz as Pianist at Salon Kitty (uncredited)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Hollywood ... (Music)
- The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
- Staying On ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fair Stood the Wind for France ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- The Old Curiosity Shop ... (Music)
- Prince Regent ... (Original Music Composer)
- Birth of the Beatles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brecht and Co ... (Original Music Composer)
- Speed King ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- The Mayor of Casterbridge ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Light Princess ... (Original Music Composer)
- Langrishe, Go Down ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- Marie Curie ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Kiss of Death ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Our Mutual Friend ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where Adam Stood ... (Music)
- The Paradise Run ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lady of the Camellias ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Hands ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Your Man from Six Counties ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shuttlecock ... (Theme Song Performance)
1975
- NBC Special Treat ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Naked Civil Servant ... (Original Music Composer)
- Man Friday ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- The World at War ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Catholics ... (Original Music Composer)
- The National Health ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- War & Peace ... (Music)
- Up the Chastity Belt ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rentadick ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- Up Pompeii ... (Original Music Composer)
- I, Monster ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Edward II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition as Composer
1968
- The Bofors Gun ... (Original Music Composer)