Person    | Male  Born 28/10/1936  Died 3/8/2023

Carl Davis

Categories: Music / songs

Countries: USA

Conductor and composer. Born New York City but lived in the UK from1961.  He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes, but is best known for creating music to accompany silent films, such as Abel Gance's epic Napoléon (1927). Died Oxford.

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