John Addison - wikipedia John Addison This article is about the 20th - century British composer. For other uses, see John Addison ( disambiguation ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2015 ) John Addison Birth name John Mervyn Addison ( 1920 - 03 - 16 ) 16 March 1920 Chobham, Surrey, England 7 December 1998 ( 1998 - 12 - 07 ) ( aged 78 ) Bennington, Vermont Occupation ( s ) Composer John Mervyn Addison ( 16 March 1920 -- 7 December 1998 ) was a British composer best known for his film scores. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Film Scores 4 Music Composed for TV 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links Early life Addison was born in Chobham, Surrey to a father who was a colonel in the Royal Field Artillery, and this influenced the decision to send him to school at Wellington College, Berkshire. His grandfather was Lieut Col George Addison, who played for the Royal Engineers in the 1872 and 1874 FA Cup Finals. At the age of sixteen he entered the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition with Gordon Jacob, oboe with Léon Goossens, and clarinet with Frederick Thurston. This education ended in 1939 with service in World War II. Addison served with the British XXX Corps in the 23rd Hussars. He was a tank officer in the Battle of Normandy and wounded at Caen, later participating in Operation Market Garden. At the end of the war, he returned to London to teach composition at the Royal College of Music. Career Addison is best known for his film scores. He won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award in the Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show category for the music to the 1963 film, Tom Jones. He also won a BAFTA Award for A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ). His other film scores included A Taste of Honey ( 1961 ), Smashing Time ( 1967 ), The Honey Pot ( 1967 ), Sleuth ( 1972 ), Swashbuckler ( 1976 ) and the television series Centennial ( 1978 ). He composed the theme music for the television series Murder, She Wrote, for which he won an Emmy. Addison will also be remembered as the composer Alfred Hitchcock turned to when the director ended his long relationship with Bernard Herrmann over the score to his 1966 film Torn Curtain. He had a personal connection to Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) which he scored, since Douglas Bader ( the subject of the movie ) was his brother - in - law. For the theatre, Addison wrote the music for John Osborne 's plays The Entertainer ( 1957 ) and Luther. ( 1961 ) He collaborated with John Cranko on a revue, `` Cranks '' in 1956. Although he wrote numerous classical compositions, Addison explained that `` If you find you 're good at something, as I was as a film composer, it 's stupid to do anything else. '' His classical works included a trumpet concerto, described by The Times as `` buoyant '' and `` Gershwinesque '' ; a trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon ; Carte Blanche, a ballet for Sadler 's Wells from which an orchestral suite of `` sophisticated high spirits '' was performed at the Proms ; a septet for wind and harp, a piano concerto, a concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and orchestra ; and a partita for strings, which was warmly praised. Marlene Dietrich recorded If He Swing By the String and Such Trying Times from the music in Tom Jones. Addison 's collection of correspondence, scores, and studio recordings were donated to the Film Music Archives at Brigham Young University in 1994. He was survived by his wife Pamela ; two sons Jonathan and Daniel ; daughter Lucinda ; stepson Rex Birchenough, and stepdaughter Sandra Stapleton. His daughter Jane pre-deceased him. Film Scores 1950 Seven Days to Noon 1951 High Treason 1951 Pool of London 1952 The Hour of 13 1953 The Man Between 1953 Terror on a Train 1953 The Red Beret 1954 The Maggie 1954 The Black Knight 1954 Make Me an Offer 1955 The Cockleshell Heroes 1956 Private 's Progress 1956 Reach for the Sky 1956 Three Men in a Boat 1957 The Shiralee 1957 Lucky Jim 1957 Barnacle Bill 1958 I Was Monty 's Double 1959 Carlton - Browne of the F.O. 1960 School for Scoundrels 1960 The Entertainer 1960 A French Mistress 1960 His and Hers 1961 A Taste of Honey 1962 Go to Blazes 1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1963 Girl in the Headlines 1963 Tom Jones 1964 Girl with Green Eyes 1964 Guns at Batasi 1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965 The Loved One 1965 The Uncle 1966 I Was Happy Here 1966 A Fine Madness 1966 Torn Curtain 1967 The Honey Pot 1967 Smashing Time 1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1970 Start the Revolution Without Me 1970 Country Dance 1971 Mr. Forbush and the Penguins 1972 Sleuth 1973 Luther 1974 Dead Cert 1975 Ride a Wild Pony 1976 Swashbuckler 1976 The Seven - Per - Cent Solution 1977 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Joseph Andrews 1980 The Pilot 1982 Highpoint 1983 Strange Invaders 1985 Grace Quigley 1985 Code Name : Emerald Music Composed for TV 1990 The Phantom of the Opera ( miniseries ) 1988 A Shadow on the Sun 1987 Strange Voices 1986 - 1987 Walt Disney 's Wonderful World of Color ( 2 episodes ) 1986 Amazing Stories ( 2 episodes ) 1986 Something in Common 1986 Dead Man 's Folly 1985 Thirteen at Dinner 1984 Ellis Island 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) 1982 I Was a Mail Order Bride 1982 The Devlin Connection 1982 Charles & Diana : A Royal Love Story 1982 Eleanor, First Lady of the World 1981 Mistress of Paradise 1981 Nero Wolfe ( 14 episodes ) 1979 The French Atlantic Affair 1979 Love 's Savage Fury 1979 The Power Within 1979 Like Normal People 1978 Centennial ( 12 episodes ) 1978 Pearl ( miniseries ) 1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries ( 1 episode ) 1978 The Bastard 1978 Black Beauty ( 1978 film ) 1975 Grady ( 2 episodes ) 1975 A Journey to London 1974 Bellamira 1974 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) 1970 ITV Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) ( Hamlet ) 1964 Detective ( 1 episode ) Notes Jump up ^ http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba117b83e ^ Jump up to : Randel, Don Michael, ed. ( 1996 ). `` Addison, John ''. The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 5. ISBN 0 - 674 - 37299 - 9. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) ^ Jump up to : The Guardian obituary, 15 December 1998 Jump up ^ The Honey Pot : original motion picture score OCLC 20325955 Jump up ^ Tynan, Kenneth. Tynan on Theatre, Penguin Books, London, 1964, p. 50 Jump up ^ The Times, 7 July 1961, p. 15 Jump up ^ The Times, 24 May 1956, p. 3 Jump up ^ The Times, 18 July 1950, p. 8 and 18 June 1951, p. 2 Jump up ^ The Times, 18 April 1952, p. 2 Jump up ^ The Times, 19 August 1953, p. 4 Jump up ^ The Times, 13 August 1956, p. 3 and 9 November 1956, p. 3 Jump up ^ The Times, 27 February 1957, p. 3 Jump up ^ 1959, commissioned for and performed by the then `` National Schools Symphony Orchestra '' ( not to be confused with the later National Schools Symphony Orchestra ), otherwise called the `` British Youth Orchestra '' ( http://www.answers.com/topic/trevor-harvey-2 ), following the withdrawal of his former teacher, Gordon Jacob from the commission, following the death of the latter 's first wife Jump up ^ The Times, 14 July 1959, p. 8 Jump up ^ The Times, 1 May 1961, p. 16 References Obituary, The Guardian, 15 December 1998 External links John Addison on IMDb John Addison biography and credits at BFI Screenonline John Addison at AllMusic Academy Award for Best Original Score 1930s Louis Silvers ( 1934 ) Max Steiner ( 1935 ) Leo F. Forbstein ( 1936 ) Charles Previn ( 1937 ) Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman ( 1938 ) Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken ( 1939 ) 1940s Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington / Alfred Newman ( 1940 ) Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace ( 1941 ) Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld ( 1942 ) Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf ( 1943 ) Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon ( 1944 ) Miklós Rózsa / Georgie Stoll ( 1945 ) Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff ( 1946 ) Miklós Rózsa / Alfred Newman ( 1947 ) Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens ( 1948 ) Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton ( 1949 ) 1950s Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens ( 1950 ) Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin ( 1951 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman ( 1952 ) Bronisław Kaper / Alfred Newman ( 1953 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin ( 1954 ) Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch ( 1955 ) Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1956 ) Malcolm Arnold ( 1957 ) Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn ( 1958 ) Miklós Rózsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby ( 1959 ) 1960s Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman ( 1960 ) Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal ( 1961 ) Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf ( 1962 ) John Addison / Andre Previn ( 1963 ) Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn ( 1964 ) Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal ( 1965 ) John Barry / Ken Thorne ( 1966 ) Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby ( 1967 ) John Barry / Johnny Green ( 1968 ) Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman ( 1969 ) 1970s Francis Lai / The Beatles ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ) ( 1970 ) Michel Legrand / John Williams ( 1971 ) Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns ( 1972 ) Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch ( 1973 ) Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle ( 1974 ) John Williams / Leonard Rosenman ( 1975 ) Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman ( 1976 ) John Williams / Jonathan Tunick ( 1977 ) Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti ( 1978 ) Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns ( 1979 ) 1980s Michael Gore ( 1980 ) Vangelis ( 1981 ) John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse ( 1982 ) Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman ( 1983 ) Maurice Jarre / Prince ( 1984 ) John Barry ( 1985 ) Herbie Hancock ( 1986 ) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su ( 1987 ) Dave Grusin ( 1988 ) Alan Menken ( 1989 ) 1990s John Barry ( 1990 ) Alan Menken ( 1991 ) Alan Menken ( 1992 ) John Williams ( 1993 ) Hans Zimmer ( 1994 ) Luis Enríquez Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz ( 1995 ) Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman ( 1996 ) James Horner / Anne Dudley ( 1997 ) Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck ( 1998 ) John Corigliano ( 1999 ) 2000s Tan Dun ( 2000 ) Howard Shore ( 2001 ) Elliot Goldenthal ( 2002 ) Howard Shore ( 2003 ) Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ( 2004 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2005 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2006 ) Dario Marianelli ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) 2010s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ( 2010 ) Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Mychael Danna ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2014 ) Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) BAFTA Award for Best Film Music John Barry ( 1968 ) Mikis Theodorakis ( 1969 ) Burt Bacharach ( 1970 ) Michel Legrand ( 1971 ) Nino Rota ( 1972 ) Alan Price ( 1973 ) Richard Rodney Bennett ( 1974 ) John Williams ( 1975 ) Bernard Herrmann ( 1976 ) John Addison ( 1977 ) John Williams ( 1978 ) Ennio Morricone ( 1979 ) John Williams ( 1980 ) Carl Davis ( 1981 ) John Williams ( 1982 ) Ryuichi Sakamoto ( 1983 ) Ennio Morricone ( 1984 ) Maurice Jarre ( 1985 ) Ennio Morricone ( 1986 ) Ennio Morricone ( 1987 ) John Williams ( 1988 ) Maurice Jarre ( 1989 ) Andrea and Ennio Morricone ( 1990 ) Jean - Claude Petit ( 1991 ) David Hirschfelder ( 1992 ) John Williams ( 1993 ) Don Was ( 1994 ) Luis Bacalov ( 1995 ) Gabriel Yared ( 1996 ) Nellee Hooper ( 1997 ) David Hirschfelder ( 1998 ) Thomas Newman ( 1999 ) Tan Dun ( 2000 ) Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries ( 2001 ) Philip Glass ( 2002 ) T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared ( 2003 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2004 ) John Williams ( 2005 ) Gustavo Santaolalla ( 2006 ) Christopher Gunning ( 2007 ) A.R. Rahman ( 2008 ) Michael Giacchino ( 2009 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2010 ) Ludovic Bource ( 2011 ) Thomas Newman ( 2012 ) Steven Price ( 2013 ) Alexandre Desplat ( 2014 ) Ennio Morricone ( 2015 ) Justin Hurwitz ( 2016 ) VIAF : 19651801 LCCN : n85038195 ISNI : 0000 0001 1439 1098 GND : 124223036 SUDOC : 058560106 BNF : cb139296549 ( data ) MusicBrainz : 0b2a4d66 - 986a - 4bfe - 9e09 - cd5427078043 BNE : XX1316299 IATH : w6q251r6 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Addison&oldid=804561139 '' Categories : 1920 births 1998 deaths Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners BAFTA winners ( people ) Primetime Emmy Award winners Grammy Award winners English film score composers Male film score composers People from Chobham, Surrey People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire British Army personnel of World War II 23rd Hussars officers Alumni of the Royal College of Music 20th - century classical musicians 20th - century composers 20th - century English musicians Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list Articles needing additional references from January 2015 All articles needing additional references Use British English from August 2012 Use dmy dates from April 2012 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Deutsch Eesti Español فارسی Français Italiano Português Edit links This page was last edited on 9 October 2017, at 20 : 15. 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Question: who wrote the music for a bridge too far
Answer: John Mervyn Addison