James Bernard
Composer
Torture Garden (film)...Cushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing. The score was a collaboration between Hammer horror regulars James Bernard and Don Banks. It is one of producer Milton Subotsky's trademark "portmanteau" films, an... In this article: Torture Garden, Edgar Allan Poe, Maurice Denham, Michael Bryant, Peter Cushing, Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Barbara Ewing, and Trademark |
-
Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Hammer Film Productions
...scores for many Hammer horror films, including Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, were composed by James Bernard . Production designer Bernard Robinson and cinematographer Jack Asher were instrumental in creating the lavish look of the...
In this article: The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer Film Productions, Universal International, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Count Dracula, Dracula, William Hinds, and Jimmy Sangster
-
Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
The Gorgon
...Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco. The film was photographed by Michael Reeves, and designed by Bernard Robinson . For the score James Bernard combined a soprano with a little-known electronic instrument called the Novachord. The film...
In this article: The Gorgon, Terence Fisher, Michael Reeves, John Burke, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Christopher Lee, and Barbara Shelley
-
Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
James Bernard (composer)
...with him on the original screen story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days to Noon (1950). For this Paul Dehn and Jame Bernard shared the 1952 Academy Award for the Best Writing, Motion Picture Story. Undoubtedly his best...
In this article: Paul Dehn, Benjamin Britten, Kevin Brownlow, Academy Award, RAF, Dracula, Nosferatu, and Wellington College
-
Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
The Quatermass Xperiment
When Hotchkiss fell ill, Anthony Hinds asked conductor John Hollingsworth to recommend a replacement. Hollingsworth suggested James Bernard , with whom he had recently worked on a BBC radio production of The Duchess of Malfi. Feeling that...
In this article: The Quatermass Xperiment, Nigel Kneale, Val Guest, Quatermass, BBC Television, Quatermass 2, Brian Donlevy, and Richard Wordsworth
-
Wikipedia | October 20, 2009
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
...Terence Fisher for Hammer Studios . The film was photographed in Techniscope by Michael Reed, designed by Bernard Robinson and scored by James Bernard . The film begins where the 1958 film ''Horror of Dracula '', also directed by Fisher,...
In this article: Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Count Dracula, Charles Tingwell, Dracula, Christopher Lee, Terence Fisher, and Francis Matthews
-
Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Seven Days to Noon
Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film. The film is set some time in the 1950s. The British...
In this article: Seven Days to Noon, London, and John Boulting
-
Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Paul Dehn
...lyrics for two films, ''The Innocents '' (1961) and ''Moulin Rouge '' (1952). In 1949/50 he met the composer James Bernard with whom he started a professional relationship but who also became his life partner. Paul Dehn asked James Bernard...
In this article: Paul Dehn, Shrewsbury School, Brasenose College, Oxford, Planet of the Apes, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Deadly Affair, The Innocents, and Seven Days to Noon
-
Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Luana Reyes
...Christian, was known as Pic Ah Kelowna, "White Grizzly Bear"; her great uncle (brother of her maternal grandmother) was Chief James Bernard , a Sin Aikst leader in the early 20th century. Reyes' early childhood was spent largely on the...
In this article: Luana Reyes, Lawney Reyes, Indian Health Service, Bernie Whitebear, Tacoma, Washington, Oregon, Fried rice, Chinese food, and National Council
-
Wikipedia | August 30, 2009
Novachord
...it can be heard occasionally in horror and science fiction film scores, including many genre films from Universal Studios and James Bernard 's ethereal music for Hammer 's The Gorgon (1964). It was also used for the entr'acte music in...
In this article: World War II, We'll Meet Again, The Gorgon, Gone with the Wind, Universal Studios, and Vera Lynn
-
Wikipedia | August 17, 2009
Bernie Whitebear
...Hospital in Nespelem, Washington, he was named "Bernard" after his great uncle (brother of his maternal grandmother), Chief James Bernard , a Sin Aikst leader in the early 20th century. Around 1970, as he became an activist, he changed his...
In this article: Bernie Whitebear, Lawney Reyes, Seattle, Gary Locke, Luana Reyes, Fort Lewis, and Tacoma, Washington
Trends
Loading...
More on James Bernard
Description from Wikipedia:
James Bernard (20 September 1925 - 12 July 2001) was a British film composer.
He is remembered almost exclusively for the music he composed for the Hammer horror films of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Undoubtedly his most famous was Horror of Dracula in 1958, for which he composed a motif based on the sound Dra-cu-laaaaa. Other memorable Hammer scores included The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Kiss of the Vampire (1962), The Plague of the Zombies (1966) and The Devil Rides Out (1968).
While he was a pupil at Wellington College. Although the future actor, Christopher Lee, had also attended the same school, Bernard never met him. Lee would go on to star in a great many horror films for Hammer Studios, for which James Bernard would write the scores.
He undertook national service in the RAF from 1943 to 1946. Benjamin Britten kept in touch with him during this period and encouraged him to learn the principles of composition.
After being demobbed he went to the Royal College of Music, studying under Imogen Holst and Herbert Howells. He graduated in 1949. About this time he met the writer and critic Paul Dehn with whom he started a professional relationship but who also became his life partner. Paul Dehn asked James Bernard to collaborate with him on the original screen story for the Boulting Brothers film Seven Days To Noon, (1950). For this Paul Dehn and Jame Bernard shared the 1952 Academy Award for the Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.
In 1950 Benjamin Britten approached him to copy out the vocal score of his new opera Billy Budd for his publishers Boosey & Hawkes. While doing this he stayed with Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh. He went to the opening night with Benjamin Britten's housekeeper and the librettist E. M. Forster.
Explore everything named James Bernard...