Hubert Bath

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Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 1883 – 24 April 1945) was a British film composer and music director. His credits include Tudor Rose (1936), A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Millions Like Us (1943).

Bath was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1883.

In 1924, Bath was named as co-respondent in the divorce case between Colonel Alfred Rawlinson and the actress Jean Aylwin.^[1]

His composition Out of the Blue has been used as the theme music of Sports Report since the programme started in 1948. Also well-known is his Cornish Rhapsody, written for, and essential to the plot of, the 1944 film Love Story.

He died in Harefield, Middlesex in 1945, aged 61.

His son John Bath (1915-2004) was also a film composer.

Selected filmography

The Informer (1929)
The Plaything (1929)
Tell England (1931)
Non-Stop New York (1937)

Notes

↑ "Actress's Flat in Chelsea - Composer Friend Cited as Co-Respondent". North Devon Journal (Barnstaple). 15 May 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2012.

External links

Hubert Bath at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 51895117 LCCN: n82159257 GND: 138989206 BNF: cb14077529z

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Name	Bath, Hubert
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Short description	composer
Date of birth	6 November 1883
Place of birth
Date of death	24 April 1945
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