Carl Davis
Known for: Sound
Born: October 28, 1936
Died: August 3, 2023
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
95 movies · 29 TV shows, newest first
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Composing Napoleon
2016
7.5
Ethel & Ernest
2016
6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
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The Understudy
2012
7.4
Upstairs Downstairs
2010
8.1
Cranford
2007
6.9
Garbo
2005
7.0
Promoted to Glory
2003
3.3
The Book of Eve
2002
8.0
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
6.8
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
5.6
The Great Gatsby
2000
5.6
The Greatest Store in the World
1999
6.6
Topsy-Turvy
1999
7.0
Goodnight, Mister Tom
1998
7.1
Universal Horror
1998
6.8
Le radeau de la Méduse
1998
5.9
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
4.0
An Audience with Charles Dickens
1996
7.2
The Queen's Nose
1995
8.2
Pride and Prejudice
1995
6.0
Oliver's Travels
1995
7.6
Anne Frank Remembered
1995
6.2
The Return of the Native
1994
4.1
Lie Down with Lions
1994
6.8
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
1994
6.4
Widows' Peak
1994
7.9
Liberation
1994
5.1
Genghis Cohn
1993
6.0
The Trial
1993
5.3
Voyage
1993
6.9
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
1993
6.0
A Year in Provence
1993
9.8
Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol
1992
7.3
A Sense of History
1992
6.5
The Crucifer of Blood
1991
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Paul McCartney: Ghosts of the Past
1991
5.8
The Black Velvet Gown
1991
7.0
Echoes That Remain
1991
6.5
Separate but Equal
1991
7.0
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
5.9
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
7.0
Crossing to Freedom
1990
4.5
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
5.5
The Yellow Wallpaper
1989
7.0
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
1989NR
Somewhere to Run
1989
5.7
The Rainbow
1989
6.0
Scandal
1989
4.9
The Girl in a Swing
1988
6.0
The Play on One
1988
8.0
Journey's End
1988
7.5
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1987
8.5
The First Eden
1987
4.3
Hotel du Lac
1986
5.9
Silas Marner
1985
5.8
A Song for Europe
1985
5.7
King David
1985
8.8
The Day the Universe Changed
1985
5.8
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
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Fragments of Isabella
1985
7.5
Sakharov
1984
7.4
The Far Pavilions
1984
6.6
Champions
19847.0
Down in the Valley
1984
7.0
The Aerodrome
1983
4.3
The Weather in the Streets
1983
6.4
Macbeth
1983
5.0
Landscape
1983NR
Arms and the Man
1983
8.3
Unknown Chaplin
1983
7.5
Schoolgirl Chums
1982
6.3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982
8.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
6.3
Home Sweet Home
1982
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L’Elegance
1982
6.0
Praying Mantis
1982
6.5
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
5.3
Private Schulz
1981
7.0
Staying On
1980NR
The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
1980
7.3
The Merchant of Venice
1980
6.7
Oppenheimer
1980
7.0
Fair Stood the Wind for France
1980
8.4
Hollywood
1980NR
Speed King
1979
7.5
The Old Curiosity Shop
1979
6.5
Birth of the Beatles
1979
6.3
Prince Regent
1979
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Brecht and Co
1979
7.0
The Light Princess
1978NR
Thank You, Comrades
1978
6.3
Wuthering Heights
1978
4.4
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
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The Sea
1978
6.8
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1978
8.0
Marie Curie
1977
6.5
The Kiss of Death
1977
9.0
The Lady of the Camellias
1976
10.0
Your Man from Six Counties
1976
NR
Shuttlecock
1976
5.0
Fast Hands
1976
6.8
Where Adam Stood
1976
NR
The Paradise Run
1976
7.0
Our Mutual Friend
1976
6.7
The Naked Civil Servant
1975NR
NBC Special Treat
1975
6.7
Man Friday
1975
6.5
The Cay
1974
6.1
The Catholics
1973
8.3
The World at War
1973
8.5
The Merchant of Venice
1973NR
Away from It All
1973
7.0
The National Health
1973
4.2
Rentadick
1972
7.1
War & Peace
1972
8.0
Stocker's Copper
1972
4.1
Up the Chastity Belt
1972
5.5
I, Monster
1971
6.1
Up Pompeii
1971
4.9
Edward II
1970
3.0
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
1970
6.5
The Bofors Gun
1968