Carl Davis, a prolific Brooklyn-born composer whose classically inspired scores touched performances spanning more than a century, from films, television and ballet, died at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 86.
“The main thing is to pull the audience in so strongly,” he noted to the Los Angeles Times in 1997, “that they forget they’re looking at an archaic form of filmmaking.”Carl Davis was born on Oct. 28, 1936, in Brooklyn, where his father worked in the post office and his mother was a teacher. Mr.
Mr. Davis became assistant conductor at the New York City Opera. He soon decided he could advance his career further in Europe. He studied in 1960 with composerin Copenhagen. In 1961, a revue Mr. Davis co-wrote, “Diversions,” headed to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. and “The Pickwick Papers” . Among his film scores: the drama “Champions” starring John Hurt; “Scandal” with Ian McKellen and Joanne Whalley recreating the John Profumo political scandal in the 1960s; and “The Trial,” a 1993 crime thriller starring Anthony Hopkins.
He received a BAFTA award, the British equivalent of an Oscar, for original music for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2005.daughters; and three grandchildren.
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