Douglas Gamley

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Douglas Gamley (24 September 1924, Melbourne - 5 February 1998) was an Australian film composer, who worked on British and American films. He was particularly influenced by Modest Mussorgsky, creating a full orchestral version of his Pictures at an Exhibition and adapting his Night on Bald Mountain for his Asylum score. He also adapted Faure's Pavane for The Monster Club.

[edit] Partial filmography

• The Admirable Crichton (1957)
• Fire Down Below (1957)
• Web of Evidence (1959)
• The City of the Dead (1960)
• Stock music used in the Doctor Who episode The Tenth Planet (1966)
• Spring and Port Wine (1970)
• And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
• Asylum (1972)
• The Beast Must Die (1974)
• The Little Prince (1974, winning him a nomination for Academy Award for Original Music Score)
• The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
• The Monster Club (1980)
• Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1980)
• New edition of The Beggar's Opera, with Richard Bonynge (1981)

[edit] External links

• Douglas Gamley at the Internet Movie Database