Louis Levy
Known for: Sound
Born: November 20, 1894
Died: August 18, 1957
Place of birth: London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film composer and music director, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He was born in London and died in Slough, Berkshire. As a child Louis Levy played the violin, beginning with a toy violin that his father bought him at the age of seven. He later became the pupil of Guido Papini but due to his parents' limited means, ended his studies with Papini and began a period of self-study. This led to him gaining a scholarship at the London College of Music. Papini refused to allow Levy to study under anyone else, so resumed his tuition, this time free of charge. He started his career in 1910 arranging and performing music for silent films. In 1916 he became musical director for the New Gallery Cinema in London. In 1921, he went to the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion as Music Chief and is credited with being the first to develop the theme song in movies. At the beginning of talkies, he joined the Gaumont British studios at Shepherd’s Bush, where he became the head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards. The rich sounds emanating from his large orchestra are all the more impressive when one realises that electrical sound industry was barely ten years old. He worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He later had a long running BBC radio series Music From the Movies, which started in 1936 and went on until the 1950s. At this time, through the sheer necessity of having to produce so much music he employed several talented arrangers, among them Peter Yorke ) and Bretton Byrd, who was his chief music editor at Gaumont British.
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Filmography
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6.0
No Time for Tears
1957
6.3
Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957
5.4
Let's Be Happy
1957
6.8
It's Great to be Young!
1956
7.0
Now and Forever
1956
7.1
Moby Dick
1956
6.9
Yield to the Night
1956
6.9
The Dam Busters
1955
6.4
The Dark Avenger
1955
6.4
Duel in the Jungle
1954
5.5
Happy Ever After
1954
6.5
The Weak and the Wicked
1954
5.4
Isn't Life Wonderful!
1953
6.3
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953
6.6
South of Algiers
1953
5.8
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952
9.5
Where's Charley?
1952
7.4
So Little Time
1952
5.3
Young Wives' Tale
1951
6.5
Laughter in Paradise
1951
7.0
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
7.2
The Franchise Affair
1951
6.7
Portrait of Clare
1950
6.0
Murder Without Crime
1950
6.8
Stage Fright
1950
6.8
Obsession
1949
6.7
Man on the Run
1949
6.5
The Queen of Spades
1949
6.7
Caravan
1946
6.5
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
1945
6.5
Love Story
1944
6.9
Two Thousand Women
1944
6.9
Give Us the Moon
1944
5.5
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
6.0
Time Flies
1944
6.2
The Adventures of Tartu
19438.0
Dear Octopus
1943
6.1
The Man in Grey
1943
6.2
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
9.0
Uncensored
1942
6.6
Back-Room Boy
1942
6.7
Cottage to Let
1941
7.4
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941
6.1
Gasbags
19416.8
Neutral Port
1940
7.2
Night Train to Munich
1940
6.5
Girl in the News
1940
6.0
Busman's Honeymoon
19407.0
For Freedom
1940
7.0
An Englishman's Home
1940
7.9
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
1939
5.7
Shipyard Sally
1939
4.8
A Girl Must Live
1939
7.4
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939
7.4
Ask a Policeman
1939
9.0
The Lambeth Walk
1939
9.0
Everything Happens to Me
1938NR
Old Iron
1938
7.1
Climbing High
1938
6.4
The Citadel
1938
7.4
The Lady Vanishes
1938
6.1
Crackerjack
1938
7.5
Alf's Button Afloat
1938
7.8
Sailing Along
1938
6.2
Bank Holiday
1938
6.8
Non-Stop New York
1937
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The Gap
1937
6.8
Doctor Syn
1937
7.0
Gangway
1937
7.7
Command Performance
1937
6.5
Young and Innocent
1937
6.4
O-Kay for Sound
1937
6.7
Sabotage
19378.0
Take My Tip
193710.0
All In!
1936
5.6
Everything Is Thunder
1936
8.1
Tudor Rose
1936
7.0
East Meets West
1936
6.2
Seven Sinners
1936
6.1
Secret Agent
1936
6.5
It's Love Again
1936
8.0
First Offence
19369.0
Foreign Affaires
1935
6.7
Bulldog Jack
1935
7.8
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935
6.4
Boys Will Be Boys
1935
6.5
Things Are Looking Up
1935
7.3
The 39 Steps
1935
10.0
Heat Wave
1935
6.3
Brown on Resolution
1935
6.0
Oh, Daddy!
1935
6.1
Car of Dreams
1935
7.5
My Heart Is Calling
1935
6.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
7.0
Dirty Work
1934
8.0
The Iron Duke
19346.3
Road House
1934
5.0
Little Friend
19347.5
Forbidden Territory
1934
4.0
My Old Dutch
193410.0
It's a Boy
1934
10.0
A Cup of Kindness
1934
7.3
Man of Aran
1934
6.4
Evergreen
1934
6.4
Friday the Thirteenth
1933
5.6
The Ghoul
19337.0
Waltz Time
19336.0
Baroud
1933
5.0
The Man from Toronto
1933
7.0
The Midshipmaid
1932
10.0
After the Ball
1932
6.0
Baroud
1932
6.1
Rome Express
1932
6.0
Love on Wheels
1932
5.7
Jack's the Boy
1932
7.0
The Faithful Heart
193210.0
White Face
1932
8.0
Lord Babs
1932
7.0
Michael and Mary
1931
6.0
No Lady
1931
10.0
The Stronger Sex
1931
10.0
Bed and Breakfast
1930
7.0
Symphony in Two Flats
193010.0
Just for a Song
1930
10.0
Balaclava
19289.0
The Arcadians
1927
6.2
She
1925
5.9
Madame de Thèbes
1915