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Louis Levy
London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film composer and music director, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film composer and music director, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He was born in London and died in Slough, Berkshire. As a child Louis Levy played the violin, beginning with a toy violin that his father bought him at the age of seven. He later became the pupil of Guido Papini but due to his parents' limited means, ended his studies with Papini and began a period of self-study. This led to him gaining a scholarship at the London College of Music. Papini refused to allow Levy to study under anyone else, so resumed his tuition, this time free of charge. He started his career in 1910 arranging and performing music for silent films. In 1916 he became musical director for the New Gallery Cinema in London. In 1921, he went to the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion as Music Chief and is credited with being the first to develop the theme song in movies. At the beginning of talkies, he joined the Gaumont British studios at Shepherd’s Bush, where he became the head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards. The rich sounds emanating from his large orchestra are all the more impressive when one realises that electrical sound industry was barely ten years old. He worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He later had a long running BBC radio series Music From the Movies, which started in 1936 and went on until the 1950s. At this time, through the sheer necessity of having to produce so much music he employed several talented arrangers, among them Peter Yorke ) and Bretton Byrd, who was his chief music editor at Gaumont British.
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1957
No Time for Tears
Movie Music Director
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1957
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Movie Music
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1957
Let's Be Happy
Movie Music Director
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1956
It's Great to be Young!
Movie Music Director
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1956
Now and Forever
Movie Music Director
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1956
Moby Dick
Movie Conductor
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1956
Yield to the Night
Movie Music Director
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1955
The Dam Busters
Movie Music Director
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1955
The Dark Avenger
Movie Conductor
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1954
Duel in the Jungle
Movie Music Director
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1954
Happy Ever After
Movie Music Director
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1954
The Weak and the Wicked
Movie Music Director
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1953
Isn't Life Wonderful!
Movie Music Director
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1953
Will Any Gentleman...?
Movie Conductor
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1953
South of Algiers
Movie Music Director
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1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Movie Music Director
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1952
Where's Charley?
Movie Music Director
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1952
So Little Time
Movie Music Director
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1951
Young Wives' Tale
Movie Music Director
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1951
Laughter in Paradise
Movie Music Director
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1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Movie Music Director
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1951
The Franchise Affair
Movie Music Director
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1950
Portrait of Clare
Movie Music Director
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1950
Murder Without Crime
Movie Music Director
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1950
Stage Fright
Movie Music Director
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1949
Under Capricorn
Movie Music Director
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1949
Obsession
Movie Conductor
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1949
Man on the Run
Movie Music Director
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1949
The Queen of Spades
Movie Music Director
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1946
Caravan
Movie Music Director
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1945
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Movie Associate Producer
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1944
Love Story
Movie Music Director
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1944
Two Thousand Women
Movie Music Director
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1944
Give Us the Moon
Movie Music Director
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1944
Fanny by Gaslight
Movie Music Director
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1944
Time Flies
Movie Music Director
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1943
The Adventures of Tartu
Movie Music Director
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1943
Dear Octopus
Movie Music Director
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1943
The Man in Grey
Movie Music Director
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1942
The Young Mr. Pitt
Movie Music Director
