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Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)

Birthplace:
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Born:
October 21, 1921

Died:
September 23, 2006

Biography from TheMovieDB

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar.  Description above from the Wikipedia page Malcolm Arnold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Additional Music:
1953  36 Hours

Conductor:
1948  Mining Review
1953  36 Hours
1957  Island in the Sun
1959  Blind Date
1962  The Inspector
1962  The Lion

Music:
1948  Mining Review
1952  The Island
1952  Wings of Danger
1953  36 Hours
1953  Copenhagen: 'City of Towers'
1953  Man of Africa
1954  Devil on Horseback
1954  The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1955  The Night My Number Came Up
1955  Value for Money
1957  Island in the Sun
1958  The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958  The Roots of Heaven
1959  Blind Date
1959  Coupes des Alpes: The Story of the 1958 Alpine Rally
1959  Solomon and Sheba
1961  On the Fiddle
1962  The Inspector
1962  The Lion
1968  Divertimento
1969  David Copperfield
2000  The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius

Original Music Composer:
1948  Mining Review
1948  Queen o’ the Border
1949  Dollars and Sense
1949  The Forbidden Street
1950  Your Witness
1951  No Highway in the Sky
1952  Curtain Up
1952  Home at Seven
1952  It Started in Paradise
1952  Stolen Face
1952  The Holly and the Ivy
1952  The Island
1952  The Ringer
1952  The Sound Barrier
1952  Wings of Danger
1953  36 Hours
1953  Copenhagen: 'City of Towers'
1953  Four Sided Triangle
1953  Man of Africa
1953  The Captain's Paradise
1954  Beautiful Stranger
1954  Devil on Horseback
1954  Hobson's Choice
1954  The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954  The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954  The Sleeping Tiger
1955  A Prize of Gold
1955  I Am a Camera
1955  The Constant Husband
1955  The Deep Blue Sea
1955  The Night My Number Came Up
1955  Value for Money
1956  1984
1956  A Hill in Korea
1956  Trapeze
1956  Wicked as They Come
1957  Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957  Island in the Sun
1957  The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958  Dunkirk
1958  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1958  The Key
1958  The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958  The Roots of Heaven
1959  Blind Date
1959  Coupes des Alpes: The Story of the 1958 Alpine Rally
1959  Solomon and Sheba
1959  Suddenly, Last Summer
1960  The Angry Silence
1960  The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
1960  Tunes of Glory
1961  On the Fiddle
1961  Whistle Down the Wind
1962  The Inspector
1962  The Lion
1963  Nine Hours to Rama
1964  The Chalk Garden
1964  The Thin Red Line
1965  The Heroes of Telemark
1966  The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
1968  Divertimento
1969  David Copperfield
1970  The Reckoning
2000  The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius
2000  The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'

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TV Production

Music:
1954  War in the Air

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