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Józef Żmigrod (February 23, 1902 – September 10, 1973), better known by his stage name, Allan Gray, was a Polish composer, best known for his film scores.
Composer: The African Queen. Allan (or Josef as he was then) studied under the great pioneering modernist Arnold Schönberg. To pay for his tuition he composed popular, jazz-influenced tunes for cabaret acts in Berlin. Josef took his pseudonym from Oscar Wilde's narcissistic hero, Dorian Gray.
- February 23, 1904
- September 10, 1973
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Józef Żmigrod (February 23, 1902 – September 10, 1973), better known by his stage name, Allan Gray, was a Polish composer, best known for his film scores.
Trained in Berlin under Arnold Schönberg, Allan Gray (born Josef Zmigrod in Tarnow, Poland) was an established composer for stage, cabaret, and screen before his emigration in 1933. His film scores in Britain were playfully eclectic in style, alternating between haunting romanticism, catchy melodies, and occasional stark modernist touches.
Allan William Buchanan Gray (8 April 1938 – 10 November 2019) was a South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded the privately owned investment management company named after him , and the non-profit Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, and the Allan and Gill Gray Charitable Trust.
Through the early 1930s Gray established himself as one of Germany's most important film composers, in severla instances he worked on pictures of such prestige that they were filmed in multi-lingual versions - a particular example is Karl Hartl's " F.P.1 " a bizarre semi-science fiction epic about a future trans-Atlantic air service where planes...
