Carl Davis

Composer

Born: October 28, 1936 (86 years old)

Died: August 3, 2023

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography (57)

• Liberation (1994, ★ 7.8)
• The First Eden (1987, ★ 8.5)
• The World at War (1973, ★ 8.3)
• Hollywood (1980, ★ 8.3)
• The Day the Universe Changed (1985, ★ 8.7)
• Unknown Chaplin (1983, ★ 8.2)
• Cranford (2007, ★ 8.2)
• Pride and Prejudice (1995, ★ 8.2)
• Florence Foster Jenkins (2016, ★ 6.7)
• Man Friday (1975, ★ 6.9)
• The National Health (1973, ★ 6.8)
• Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987, ★ 7.6)
• Scandal (1989, ★ 6)
• Birth of the Beatles (1979, ★ 6.4)
• The Kiss of Death (1977, ★ 6.3)
• The Naked Civil Servant (1975, ★ 6.6)
• Ethel & Ernest (2016, ★ 7.5)
• The Far Pavilions (1984, ★ 7.5)
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990, ★ 5.7)
• D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993, ★ 6.5)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981, ★ 6.4)
• A Sense of History (1992, ★ 7.3)
• Anne Frank Remembered (1995, ★ 7.6)
• Garbo (2005, ★ 6.3)
• Macbeth (1983, ★ 6.4)
• Widows' Peak (1994, ★ 6.3)
• Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998, ★ 6.8)
• Universal Horror (1998, ★ 7.1)
• The Catholics (1973, ★ 5.8)
• Champions (1984, ★ 6.6)