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
- Ethel & Ernest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Composing Napoleon as Self
- Florence Foster Jenkins as Orlando Adams
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)
- Queen's Nose as Choral Plant
- Anne Frank Remembered ... (Music)
- Oliver's Travels ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- Widows' Peak ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Return of the Native ... (Music)
- Liberation ... (Original Music Composer)
- George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin ... (Music)
1993
- 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
- The Crucifer of Blood ... (Original Music Composer)
- Separate But Equal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Echoes That Remain ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past as him Self
- The Black Velvet Gown ... (Music)
1990
- Frankenstein Unbound ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story ... (Music)
1989
- Scandal ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Rainbow ... (Original Music Composer)
- Somewhere to Run ... (Original Music Composer)
- Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius ... (Music)
- The Yellow Wallpaper ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- Journey's End ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Play on One ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl in a Swing ... (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)
- Silas Marner ... (Original Music Composer)
- King David ... (Original Music Composer)
- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Song for Europe ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Day the Universe Changed ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
1984
- Champions ... (Music)
- Sakharov ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Far Pavilions ... (Original Music Composer)
- Down in the Valley ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Macbeth ... (Original Music Composer)
- Landscape ... (Music)
- The Weather in the Streets ... (Original Music Composer)
- Unknown Chaplin ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Aerodrome ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- Home Sweet Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Praying Mantis ... (Original Music Composer)
- L’Elegance ... (Music)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Schoolgirl Chums ... (Original Music Composer)
1981
- The French Lieutenant's Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Staying On ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hollywood ... (Music)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Speed King ... (Original Music Composer)
- Birth of The Beatles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brecht and Co ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Old Curiosity Shop ... (Music)
- Prince Regent ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- Langrishe, Go Down ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Light Princess ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- Marie Curie ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Kiss of Death ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Your Man from Six Counties ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Paradise Run ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where Adam Stood ... (Music)
- Our Mutual Friend ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- Man Friday ... (Original Music Composer)
- NBC Special Treat ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Naked Civil Servant ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- The World at War ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Catholics ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
- The National Health ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- Rentadick ... (Original Music Composer)
- Up the Chastity Belt ... (Original Music Composer)
- War & Peace ... (Music)
1971
- I, Monster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Up Pompeii ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Edward II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition as Composer