Carl Davis

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1936-10-28

Deathday 2023-08-03 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Carl Davis CBE

Carl Davis

Biography

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.

Known For

Sound

2012
The Understudy

as Original Music Composer

2007
Cranford

as Original Music Composer

2005
Garbo

as Orchestrator

2005
Garbo

as Original Music Composer

2003
Promoted to Glory

as Original Music Composer

2002
The Book of Eve

as Original Music Composer

2000
1999
Topsy-Turvy

as Original Music Composer

1998
Le radeau de la Méduse

as Original Music Composer

1998
Goodnight, Mister Tom

as Original Music Composer

1997
A Dance to the Music of Time

as Original Music Composer

1995
Oliver's Travels

as Original Music Composer

1995
Pride and Prejudice

as Original Music Composer

1994
Liberation

as Original Music Composer

1994
Widows' Peak

as Original Music Composer

1993
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

as Original Music Composer

1993
Voyage

as Music

1993
Genghis Cohn

as Original Music Composer

1993
The Trial

as Original Music Composer

1992
A Sense of History

as Original Music Composer

1992
Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol

as Original Music Composer

1991
Echoes That Remain

as Original Music Composer

1991
The Crucifer of Blood

as Original Music Composer

1991
Separate But Equal

as Original Music Composer

1990
Frankenstein Unbound

as Original Music Composer

1990
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

as Original Music Composer

1989
Scandal

as Original Music Composer

1989
The Yellow Wallpaper

as Original Music Composer

1989
Somewhere to Run

as Original Music Composer

1989
The Rainbow

as Original Music Composer

1989
The Rainbow

as Conductor

1988
The Girl in a Swing

as Original Music Composer

1988
Journey's End

as Original Music Composer

1988
The Girl in a Swing

as Conductor

1988
The Play on One

as Original Music Composer

1987
The First Eden

as Music Editor

1987
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

as Original Music Composer

1986
Hotel du Lac

as Original Music Composer

1986
Hotel du Lac

as Conductor

1985
The Pickwick Papers

as Original Music Composer

1985
A Song for Europe

as Conductor

1985
A Song for Europe

as Original Music Composer

1985
King David

as Original Music Composer

1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Original Music Composer

1985
Screen Two

as Original Music Composer

1985
The Day the Universe Changed

as Main Title Theme Composer

1984
Sakharov

as Original Music Composer

1984
Champions

as Music

1984
Down in the Valley

as Original Music Composer

1984
The Far Pavilions

as Original Music Composer

1983
Macbeth

as Original Music Composer

1983
The Weather in the Streets

as Original Music Composer

1983
The Aerodrome

as Original Music Composer

1983
Landscape

as Music

1983
Unknown Chaplin

as Original Music Composer

1982
Home Sweet Home

as Original Music Composer

1982
L’Elegance

as Music

1982
Schoolgirl Chums

as Original Music Composer

1982
Praying Mantis

as Original Music Composer

1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Original Music Composer

1980
Staying On

as Original Music Composer

1980
Hollywood

as Music

1979
Birth of The Beatles

as Original Music Composer

1979
Brecht and Co

as Original Music Composer

1979
Speed King

as Original Music Composer

1978
The Light Princess

as Original Music Composer

1978
Langrishe, Go Down

as Original Music Composer

1978
The Mayor of Casterbridge

as Original Music Composer

1978
Wuthering Heights

as Original Music Composer

1977
The Kiss of Death

as Original Music Composer

1977
Marie Curie

as Original Music Composer

1976
Your Man from Six Counties

as Original Music Composer

1976
The Paradise Run

as Original Music Composer

1975
Man Friday

as Original Music Composer

1975
The Naked Civil Servant

as Original Music Composer

1975
NBC Special Treat

as Original Music Composer

1973
The National Health

as Original Music Composer

1973
The Catholics

as Original Music Composer

1973
The World at War

as Original Music Composer

1972
Rentadick

as Original Music Composer

1972
Up the Chastity Belt

as Original Music Composer

1971
I, Monster

as Original Music Composer

1970
Edward II

as Original Music Composer

Producer

2012
The Understudy

as Executive Producer

Crew

1998
Universal Horror

as Additional Music