John Wooldridge

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Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge, DSO, DFC and Bar, DFM, (18 July 1919 – 27 October 1958) was a British film composer.

Wooldridge was born in Yokohama, Japan. He studied under Sibelius and was a friend and contemporary of William Walton.

During World War II he was a member of RAF Bomber Command and while serving with No.106 Squadron RAF, had been one of Guy Gibson's Flight Commanders. Wooldridge put this war time experience to good use when he contributed the score, as well-as co-writing the screenplay, to the 1952 Dirk Bogarde film Appointment in London.

His first marriage to Mary Latham, with whom he had a son, Morris Latham, also a pilot, ended in divorce.

He was later married to the actress Margaretta Scott, with whom he had a daughter, Susan Wooldridge, also an actress; and a son, Hugh Wooldridge.

Wooldridge was killed in a car accident in England.

[edit] Film scores

• RX for Murder - (1958) - (US title: Prescription for Murder)
• Soapbox Derby - (1958)
• Count Five and Die - (1958)
• The Last Man to Hang? - (1956)
• Appointment in London - (1952)
• Crow Hollow - (1952) - (uncredited)
• Blackmailed - (1950)
• Torment - (1950) - (US title: Paper Gallows)
• The Woman in Question - (1950) - (US title: Five Angles on Murder)
• Conspirator - (1949)
• Edward, My Son - (1949)
• A Journey for Jeremy - (1949)
• The Guinea Pig - (1948) - (US title: The Outsider)
• Fame is the Spur - (1946)

[edit] External links

• John Wooldridge at the Internet Movie Database