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Ken Howard
London, England, UK
Ken Howard was an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director. In the 1960s and 1970s, in collaboration with Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard composed the music and word…
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Ken Howard was an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director. In the 1960s and 1970s, in collaboration with Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard composed the music and words for many international top 10 hits, including two UK number ones, "Have I the Right?" (The Honeycombs)[17] and "The Legend of Xanadu" (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich). Among other performers for whom they wrote were The Herd, Petula Clark, Phil Collins, Sacha Distel, Rolf Harris, Frankie Howerd (the theme song for his film Up Pompeii), Engelbert Humperdinck, Horst Jankowski, Eartha Kitt, Little Eva, Lulu and Matthews Southern Comfort. They were also the first British composers to write for Elvis Presley, including the hit "I've Lost You". Howard and Blaikley were responsible for theme and incidental music for several television drama series including The Flame Trees of Thika (1981) and By the Sword Divided (1983–1985),and the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984–1992). Howard also scored BBC TV's BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Shadowlands with Claire Bloom and Joss Ackland in 1985, Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye with Derek Jacobi and Judy Parfitt, and Ronald Neame's last film, Foreign Body in 1986, plus BBC TV's The Black and Blue Lamp and The Angry Earth in 1989.
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- 1992
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1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Movie Music
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1989
The Angry Earth
Movie Music
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1988
The Black and Blue Lamp
Movie Music
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1987
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Movie Original Music Composer
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1987
Miss Marple: Nemesis
TV show Music
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1987
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
TV show Music
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1987
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
TV show Music
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1986
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
Movie Music
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1986
Foreign Body
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Mr Pye
TV show Original Music Composer
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1986
Mr. Pye
Movie Music
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1985
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
Movie Director
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1985
Shadowlands
Movie Original Music Composer
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1985
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
TV show Music
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1985
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
TV show Music
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1983
By the Sword Divided
TV show Original Music Composer
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1982
One in Five
Movie Director
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1982
Q.E.D.
TV show Original Music Composer
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1981
The Flame Trees of Thika
TV show Music
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1977
Orion
Movie Music
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1971
Up Pompeii
Movie Songs
