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Carl Davis Biography (1936-)

Born October 28, 1936, in New York, NY; son of Isadore and Sara (maiden name,Perlmutter) Davis; married Jean Boht (an actress), December 28, 1970 (one source says 1971); children: two daughters.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Composer, music director, music conductor, music arranger, production assistant, actor

Birth Details

October 28, 1936

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Conductor, The Other World of Winston Churchill, 1964
• Music director, Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition, Mithras, 1970
• Researcher, The Late Great Planet Earth, 1978
• Production assistant, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Miramax, 1981
• Music director, Champions, Embassy, 1983
• Music director, King David, Paramount, 1985
• Music conductor (Symphonie Orchester Graunke), The Rainbow, Vestron, 1989
• Music director, Widows' Peak, 1994
• Also worked as musical director, City Lights (modern score).
• Film Appearances
• Composer, Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition, Mithras, 1970
• Killer of Sheep, 1977
• Television Work
• Series
• Music conductor, Clive James' Fame in the 20th Century, BBC, PBS, and Arts and Entertainment, 1993
• Miniseries
• Music conductor, Our Mutual Friend, BBC, then Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1978
• Movies
• Music director, The Birth of the Beatles, ABC, 1979
• Music conductor, Genghis Cohn, Arts and Entertainment, 1993
• Specials
• Music conductor, Our Mutual Friend, 1978
• Music director, The American Film Institute Salute to Lillian Gish, 1984
• Music arranger of Chaplin compositions, Unknown Chaplin, PBS, 1986
• Music conductor, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, 1991
• Music conductor, Anne Frank Remembered, BBC and Disney, 1995
• Music conductor, Goodnight Mister Tom, PBS, 1998
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• Evening at Pops, 1970
• Specials
• Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, 1991
• Other Television Appearances
• Passion and Paradise, ABC, 1989
• RECORDINGS
• Albums as Composer
• (With Paul McCartney) Liverpool Oratorio, EMI, 1993
• Also wrote The World at War, Decca; The Prince Regent, Decca; Champions; The Far Pavilions; Fire and Ice; and The Silents.
• WRITINGS
• Stage Scores
• Diversions (revue), Downtown Theatre, New York City, 1958
• Twists, Arts Theatre, London, England, 1962
• Forty Years On, 1969
• The Tempest, 1970
• Council of Love, 1970
• The Merchant of Venice, produced at National Theatre, London, 1970
• Much Ado about Nothing, produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971
• King Lear, produced in London, 1971
• The Projector, 1971
• Pericles, produced in London, 1973
• The Marriage of Figaro, produced at National Theatre, 1974
• A Month in the Country, produced at Chichester Theatre Festival, Chichester, England, 1974, produced in the West End, 1974
• Pilgrim, produced in Cranford, U.K., 1975
• Summerfolk, produced in Brooklyn, NY, 1975
• The Zykovs, produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976
• Ivanov, produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976
• The Devil's Disciple, produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976
• Saint Joan, produced at Old Vic Theatre, 1977
• Saratoga, produced by Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978
• Antonio, produced in Nottingham, England, 1979
• The Relapse, produced at Old Vic Theatre, 1981
• Dances of Love and Death (ballet), produced in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1981
• (Also creator with Barry Humphries) Last Night of the Poms--An Educational Sonorama with Music (ballet), produced in London, 1981
• Pericles, produced in New York City, 1983
• Fire and Ice (ballet), 1986
• The Portrait of Dorian Gray (ballet), 1987
• A Simple Man (ballet), 1987
• The Tempest, produced at Old Vic Theatre, 1988
• Also wrote score for The Vaccies.
• Film Scores
• The Other World of Winston Churchill, 1964
• The Bofors Gun, Universal, 1968
• The Only Way (also known as Oktober-dage), UMC, 1970
• Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition, Mithras, 1970
• Up the Chastity Belt (also known as Naughty Knights), Associated London/International Co-Productions, 1971
• Up Pompeii, 1971
• I, Monster, 1971
• The Lovers, British Lion, 1972
• Rentadick, Virgin, 1972
• (With George Howe) What Became of Jack and Jill? (also knownas Romeo and Juliet1971-A Gentle Tale of Sex, Violence, Corruption, and Murder), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972
• The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair (also known as The National Health), Columbia, 1973
• Man Friday, AVCO-Embassy, 1975
• What's Next?, Children's Film Foundation/Rank, 1975
• The Sailor's Return, Osprey, 1978
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, United Artists, 1981
• The Weather in the Streets, Rediffusion/BBC-TV/Britannia TV, 1983
• Champions, Embassy, 1984
• The Song for Europe, 1985
• George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey, Castle Hill, 1985
• King David, Paramount, 1985
• Crime of Honor, Academy Home Entertainment, 1987
• The Girl in a Swing, J & M, 1988
• The Rainbow, Vestron, 1989
• Scandal, Miramax, 1989
• Skulduggery, 1989
• Fragments of Isabella, 1989
• They Never Slept, 1990
• Frankenstein Unbound (also known as Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound), 1990
• A Sense of History, 1992
• The Trial, 1993
• Widows' Peak, 1994
• Liberation, 1994
• Le radeau de la meduse (also known as The Raft of the Medusa), 1998
• Topsy-Turvy, October Films/USA Films, 1999
• Film New Scores
• Silent Movies
• Napoleon (also known as Napoleone, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Napoleon vu par Abel Gance), 1980
• Lines on London, 1980
• The Crowd, 1981
• Flesh and the Devil, 1982
• Show People, 1982
• Broken Blossoms, 1983
• The Wind, 1983
• The Thief of Bagdad, 1984
• The Big Parade, 1985
• Greed, 1985
• The General, 1987
• Ben Hur (also known as Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ), 1987
• The Phantom of the Opera, 1996
• Also wrote new scores for Intolerance and The Four Horsemen ofthe Apocalypse.
• Television Scores
• Series
• Oscar, 1985
• Covington Cross (also known as Charring Cross), 1992
• Clive James' Fame in the 20th Century, BBC, PBS, and Arts andEntertainment, 1993
• Also wrote scores for That Was the Week That Was and The FirstEden.
• Miniseries
• The World at War, Thames, 1972
• The Mayor of Casterbridge, BBC, then Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1978
• Our Mutual Friend, BBC, then Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1978
• Prince Regent, 1978
• Hollywood, Thames, 1980
• Oppenheimer, PBS, 1982
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1982
• The Far Pavilions (also known as Blade of Steel), HBO, 1984
• "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1984
• Pride of Place: Building the American Dream, PBS, 1986
• Separate but Equal, 1991
• Ashenden, 1992
• A Year in Provence, Arts and Entertainment, 1993
• Pride and Prejudice, Arts and Entertainment, 1995
• Oliver's Travels, PBS, 1995
• The Buried Mirror, 1995
• And title music, Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, PBS, 1996
• A Dance to the Music of Time, 1997
• The Face of Russia, PBS, 1998
• Cold War, CNN, 1998
• Movies
• Catholics (also known as Conflict), 1973
• The Naked Civil Servant (also known as The Naked Civil Servantof Quentin Crisp), 1975
• Where Adam Stood, 1976
• The Birth of the Beatles, ABC, 1979
• Praying Mantis, Channel Four, 1982
• The Aerodrome, 1983
• Sakharov, HBO, 1984
• Hotel du Lac, 1986
• Murrow, 1986
• Journey's End, 1988
• Somewhere to Run, 1989
• Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (also known as The Secret Life of Ian Fleming), TNT, 1990
• Crossing to Freedom (also known as The Red Piper), 1990
• The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story, 1990
• Ghosts of the Past, 1991
• The Crucifer of Blood, 1991
• Diary of a Madman, 1991
• Voyage (also known as Cruise of Fear), 1993
• Genghis Cohn, Arts and Entertainment, 1993
• Lie Down with Lions (also known as Red Eagle), Lifetime, 1994
• The Return of the Native, CBS, 1994
• Real Women, 1998
• Seesaw, 1998
• The Greatest Store in the World, BBC, 1999
• The Great Gatsby, BBC and Arts and Entertainment, 2000
• Television Scores, Except Where Indicated
• Specials
• The Snow Goose, NBC, 1971
• Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid, NBC, 1976
• Kiss of Death (also known as Play for Today: Kiss of Death), 1977
• The Merchant of Venice (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice), 1980
• Staying On, 1981
• Home Sweet Home (also known as Play for Today: Home Sweet Home), 1982
• Macbeth (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare: Macbeth), 1983
• Unknown Chaplin, PBS, 1986
• Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, PBS, 1987
• Silas Marner (also known as Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe), 1987
• Once in a Lifetime, BBC, then Great Performances, PBS, 1988
• Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, PBS, 1989
• Paul Gauguin: The Savage Dream, 1989
• (With Paul McCartney) Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, 1991
• D. W. Griffith: Father of Film, TCM, 1993
• The Black Velvet Gown (also known as Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown), PBS, 1993
• George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, Disney Channel, 1994
• A Christmas Carol, Arts and Entertainment, 1994
• Anne Frank Remembered, BBC and Disney, 1995
• Goodnight Mister Tom, PBS, 1998
• (Additional music: "The Phantom of the Opera") Lon Chaney: A ThousandFaces, TCM, 2000
• Other Television Scores
• Marie Curie, 1977
• The Commanding Sea, 1981
• The Pickwick Papers, 1985
• The Day the Universe Changed, 1985
• Late Starter, 1985
• See It Now, 1986
• Also wrote scores for Treasure Island, Fair Stood the Wind forFrance, The Misanthrope, and The Old Curiosity Shop.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Soundtrack, December, 1987 .