| Philip Green | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harry Philip Green 19 July 1911 Whitechapel, London |
| Died | 6 October 1982 (aged 71) Donnybrook, Dublin |
Philip Green (19 July 1911 - 6 October 1982), sometimes credited as Harry Philip Green, was a film and television composer and conductor. His father was Philip Green, a boot clicker, and his mother was Elizabeth Vogel.[1] Green's first credited work was on 1943's The Sky's the Limit. He was a house arranger and conductor for Decca and accompanied many of their vocalists such as Gracie Fields, Donald Peers and Anne Shelton.
He was later appointed resident musical director of the Rank Organisation.[2] He continued to compose and conduct for film and television until his retirement in 1966. Philip, along with his wife, Dorothy, established the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust to help young musicians and composers. He died in 1982 of cerebral metastasis.[1][2]
He composed more than 150 film scores including Man on the Run (1949), The Yellow Balloon (1952), One Good Turn (1954), Carry on Admiral (1957), The Square Peg (1958), The League of Gentlemen (1960), A Stitch in Time (1963) and The Intelligence Men (1965). His themes for John and Julie (1954) and The March Hare (1956) both won Ivor Novello Awards.[2]
Like many composers of film music and light music, he also wrote prolifically for production music libraries and as a result, a number of his compositions are familiar through their use in film, radio and television programmes. Many of these works are now published by Carlin Production Music. His short composition "Horse Feathers" was used for the radio series Meet the Huggets,[3] for example, and a number of his pieces were used in Night of the Living Dead, Looney Tunes theatrical shorts (such as in 1958 when the musicians were on strike, or later added as part of TV prints for Freudy Cat.) After his death, his stock music could again be heard in The Ren and Stimpy Show, as well as on The World's Greatest Magic.[1]