Carl Davis

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Carl Davis

Sound October 28, 1936

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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…

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Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

6.7 2016 Movie
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

8.2 1995 TV Show
Screen Two

Screen Two

7.1 1985 TV Show
The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6.5 1981 Movie
The World at War

The World at War

8.3 1973 TV Show
Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy

6.6 1999 Movie
Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

5.9 1990 Movie
Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

7.5 2016 Movie
Scandal

Scandal

6.0 1989 Movie
Upstairs Downstairs

Upstairs Downstairs

7.4 2010 TV Show
The Play on One

The Play on One

6.0 1988 TV Show
Cranford

Cranford

8.1 2007 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2016
    Composing Napoleon

    Movie Self

  2. 2016
    Ethel & Ernest

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2016
    Florence Foster Jenkins

    Movie Orlando Adams

  4. 2012
    The Understudy

    Movie Mr. Davidovitz

  5. 2010
    Upstairs Downstairs

    TV show Original Music Composer

  6. 2007
    Cranford

    TV show Original Music Composer

  7. 2005
    Garbo

    Movie Orchestrator

  8. 2003
    Promoted to Glory

    Movie Original Music Composer

  9. 2002
    The Book of Eve

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2002
    There's Only One Paul McCartney

    Movie Self

  11. 2000
    Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

    Movie Music

  12. 2000
    The Great Gatsby

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 1999
    The Greatest Store in the World

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 1999
    Topsy-Turvy

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 1998
    Goodnight, Mister Tom

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 1998
    Universal Horror

    Movie Additional Music

More credits
  1. 1998
    Le radeau de la Méduse

    Movie Original Music Composer

  2. 1997
    A Dance to the Music of Time

    TV show Original Music Composer

  3. 1996
    An Audience with Charles Dickens

    Movie Music

  4. 1995
    The Queen's Nose

    TV show Choral Plant

  5. 1995
    Pride and Prejudice

    TV show Original Music Composer

  6. 1995
    Oliver's Travels

    TV show Original Music Composer

  7. 1995
    Anne Frank Remembered

    Movie Music

  8. 1994
    The Return of the Native

    Movie Music

  9. 1994
    Lie Down with Lions

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 1994
    George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin

    Movie Music

  11. 1994
    Widows' Peak

    Movie Original Music Composer

  12. 1994
    Liberation

    Movie Original Music Composer

  13. 1993
    Genghis Cohn

    Movie Original Music Composer

  14. 1993
    The Trial

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 1993
    Voyage

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 1993
    D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

    Movie Original Music Composer

  17. 1993
    A Year in Provence

    TV show Original Music Composer

  18. 1992
    Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol

    Movie Original Music Composer

  19. 1992
    A Sense of History

    Movie Original Music Composer

  20. 1991
    The Crucifer of Blood

    Movie Original Music Composer

  21. 1991
    Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past

    Movie Self

  22. 1991
    The Black Velvet Gown

    Movie Music

  23. 1991
    Echoes That Remain

    Movie Original Music Composer

  24. 1991
    Separate but Equal

    Movie Original Music Composer