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
2010
- Upstairs Downstairs ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- Cranford ... (Original Music Composer)
2005
- Garbo ... (Orchestrator)
2003
- Promoted to Glory ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- The Book of Eve ... (Original Music Composer)
- There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
2000
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces ... (Music)
- The Great Gatsby ... (Original Music Composer)
1999
- Topsy-Turvy ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Greatest Store in the World ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Le radeau de la Méduse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Goodnight, Mister Tom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Universal Horror ... (Additional Music)
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
- Widows' Peak ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Return of the Native ... (Music)
- Liberation ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lie Down with Lions ... (Original Music Composer)
- George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin ... (Music)
1993
- A Year in Provence ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Trial ... (Original Music Composer)
- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film ... (Original Music Composer)
- Genghis Cohn ... (Original Music Composer)
- Voyage ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- A Sense of History ... (Original Music Composer)
- Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- The Black Velvet Gown ... (Music)
- The Crucifer of Blood ... (Original Music Composer)
- Separate but Equal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past as Self
- Echoes That Remain ... (Original Music Composer)
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)
- The Yellow Wallpaper ... (Original Music Composer)
- Somewhere to Run ... (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)
- A Simple Man ... (Original Music Composer)
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)
- The Day the Universe Changed ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Silas Marner ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Song for Europe ... (Conductor)
- 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)
- The Weather in the Streets ... (Original Music Composer)
- Landscape ... (Music)
- Arms and the Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Macbeth ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Aerodrome ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays ... (Music)
- Schoolgirl Chums ... (Original Music Composer)
- Home Sweet Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Praying Mantis ... (Original Music Composer)
- L’Elegance ... (Music)
1981
- Private Schulz as Pianist at Salon Kitty (uncredited)
- The French Lieutenant's Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Oppenheimer ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hollywood ... (Music)
- Fair Stood the Wind for France ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
- Staying On ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Prince Regent ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Old Curiosity Shop ... (Music)
- Birth of the Beatles ... (Original Music Composer)
- Speed King ... (Original Music Composer)
- Brecht and Co ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- The Mayor of Casterbridge ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wuthering Heights ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sea ... (Music)
- The Light Princess ... (Original Music Composer)
- Langrishe, Go Down ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thank You, Comrades ... (Music)
1977
- Marie Curie ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Kiss of Death ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Our Mutual Friend ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lady of the Camellias ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Hands ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Shuttlecock ... (Theme Song Performance)
- Your Man from Six Counties ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where Adam Stood ... (Music)
- The Paradise Run ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- The Naked Civil Servant ... (Original Music Composer)
- Man Friday ... (Original Music Composer)
- NBC Special Treat ... (Original Music Composer)
1974
- The Cay ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- The World at War ... (Original Music Composer)
- Away from It All ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Original Music Composer)
- The National Health ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Catholics ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- War & Peace ... (Music)
- Up the Chastity Belt ... (Original Music Composer)
- What Became of Jack and Jill? ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stocker's Copper ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rentadick ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- I, Monster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Up Pompeii ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition as Composer
- Edward II ... (Original Music Composer)
1968
- The Bofors Gun ... (Original Music Composer)