Carl Davis

Known For: Sound
Born: October 28, 1936
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: August 3, 2023

Carl Davis

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

Composing Napoleon

2016 · Self

Ethel & Ernest

2016 · Original Music Composer

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016 · Orlando Adams

The Understudy

2012 · Mr. Davidovitz, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer

Upstairs Downstairs

2010 · Original Music Composer

Cranford

2007 · Original Music Composer

Garbo

2005 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

Promoted to Glory

2003 · Original Music Composer

The Book of Eve

2002 · Original Music Composer

There's Only One Paul McCartney

2002 · Self

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

2000 · Music

The Great Gatsby

2000 · Original Music Composer

The Greatest Store in the World

1999 · Original Music Composer

Topsy-Turvy

1999 · Original Music Composer

Goodnight, Mister Tom

1998 · Original Music Composer

Universal Horror

1998 · Additional Music

Le radeau de la Méduse

1998 · Original Music Composer

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997 · Original Music Composer

An Audience with Charles Dickens

1996 · Music

The Queen's Nose

1995 · Choral Plant

Pride and Prejudice

1995 · Original Music Composer

Oliver's Travels

1995 · Original Music Composer

Anne Frank Remembered

1995 · Music

The Return of the Native

1994 · Music

Lie Down with Lions

1994 · Original Music Composer

George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin

1994 · Music

Widows' Peak

1994 · Original Music Composer

Liberation

1994 · Original Music Composer

Genghis Cohn

1993 · Original Music Composer

The Trial

1993 · Original Music Composer

Voyage

1993 · Original Music Composer

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

1993 · Original Music Composer

A Year in Provence

1993 · Original Music Composer

Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol

1992 · Original Music Composer

A Sense of History

1992 · Original Music Composer

The Crucifer of Blood

1991 · Original Music Composer

Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past

1991 · Self

The Black Velvet Gown

1991 · Music

Echoes That Remain

1991 · Original Music Composer

Separate but Equal

1991 · Original Music Composer

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990 · Music

Frankenstein Unbound

1990 · Original Music Composer

Crossing to Freedom

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

1990 · Original Music Composer

The Yellow Wallpaper

1989 · Original Music Composer

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

1989 · Music

Somewhere to Run

Somewhere to Run

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Rainbow

1989 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Scandal

1989 · Original Music Composer

The Girl in a Swing

1988 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

The Play on One

1988 · Original Music Composer

Journey's End

1988 · Original Music Composer

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

1987 · Original Music Composer

The First Eden

1987 · Music Editor

Hotel du Lac

1986 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

Silas Marner

1985 · Original Music Composer

A Song for Europe

A Song for Europe

1985 · Conductor, Original Music Composer

King David

1985 · Original Music Composer

The Day the Universe Changed

1985 · Main Title Theme Composer

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

1985 · Original Music Composer

Screen Two

1985 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Fragments of Isabella

1985 · Music

Sakharov

1984 · Original Music Composer

The Far Pavilions

1984 · Original Music Composer

Champions

1984 · Music

Down in the Valley

Down in the Valley

1984 · Original Music Composer

The Aerodrome

1983 · Original Music Composer

The Weather in the Streets

1983 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

1983 · Original Music Composer

Landscape

1983 · Music

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

1983 · Original Music Composer

Unknown Chaplin

1983 · Original Music Composer

Schoolgirl Chums

1982 · Original Music Composer

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1982 · Original Music Composer

Home Sweet Home

1982 · Original Music Composer

L’Elegance

1982 · Music

Praying Mantis

1982 · Original Music Composer

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981 · Original Music Composer

Private Schulz

1981 · Pianist at Salon Kitty (uncredited)

Staying On

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls

The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls

1980 · Original Music Composer

The Merchant of Venice

1980 · Original Music Composer

Fair Stood the Wind for France

1980 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Hollywood

1980 · Music

Speed King

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Old Curiosity Shop

1979 · Music

Birth of the Beatles

1979 · Original Music Composer

Prince Regent

1979 · Original Music Composer

Brecht and Co

1979 · Original Music Composer

The Light Princess

1978 · Original Music Composer

Thank You, Comrades

Thank You, Comrades

1978 · Music

Wuthering Heights

1978 · Original Music Composer

Langrishe, Go Down

1978 · Original Music Composer

The Mayor of Casterbridge

1978 · Original Music Composer

Marie Curie

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Kiss of Death

1977 · Original Music Composer

The Lady of the Camellias

1976 · Original Music Composer

Your Man from Six Counties

1976 · Original Music Composer

Shuttlecock

1976 · Theme Song Performance

Fast Hands

1976 · Theme Song Performance

Where Adam Stood

1976 · Music

The Paradise Run

1976 · Original Music Composer

Our Mutual Friend

1976 · Original Music Composer

The Naked Civil Servant

1975 · Original Music Composer

NBC Special Treat

NBC Special Treat

1975 · Original Music Composer

Man Friday

1975 · Original Music Composer

The Catholics

1973 · Original Music Composer

The World at War

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Merchant of Venice

1973 · Original Music Composer

The National Health

1973 · Original Music Composer

Rentadick

1972 · Original Music Composer

War & Peace

1972 · Music

Stocker's Copper

1972 · Original Music Composer

Up the Chastity Belt

1972 · Original Music Composer

I, Monster

1971 · Original Music Composer

Up Pompeii

1971 · Original Music Composer, Conductor

Edward II

1970 · Original Music Composer

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition

1970 · Composer

The Bofors Gun

1968 · Original Music Composer

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