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James Michael Bernard (20 September 1925 – 12 July 2001) was a British film composer, particularly associated with horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions. Beginning with The Quatermass Xperiment, he scored such films as The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula. He also occasionally scored non-Hammer films including Windom's Way (1957 ...
James Bernard. Composer: Horror of Dracula. Bernard was born in India, the son of a British army officer, but was moved to England as a small child for his health. He was educated at Wellington College, where the future actor Christopher Lee was a classmate.
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James Bernard. Composer: Horror of Dracula. Bernard was born in India, the son of a British army officer, but was moved to England as a small child for his health. He was educated at Wellington College, where the future actor Christopher Lee was a classmate. Fortuitously, because Lee was to star in scores of horror films for Hammer Studios, for which James Bernard wrote the scores. Bernard's ...
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Aug 26, 2021 · Synopsis. The life of British composer James Bernard reads like a PBS mini-series: as a schoolboy, he meets Benjamin Britten, who encourages his interest in music; during WWII he joins the R.A.F., works with the team breaking the German Enigma code, and takes occasional breaks from this top-secret work to turn pages for Britten at London recitals during the Blitz; after postwar study at the ...
May 4, 2006 · James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s he was one of horror’s definitive and distinctive voices, scoring many of Hammer’s best-known films, including Dracula . This critical biography details Bernard’s life from struggle to success.
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Jul 18, 2001 · James Bernard, who composed the eerie musical scores for some of Britain's most famous horror films, died on Thursday in a London hospital, his family said. He was 75. The cause was not disclosed ...
Jul 18, 2001 · James Bernard, who composed the eerie musical scores for Britain's beloved "Hammer horrors," a series of low-budget gothic vampire and monster movies made by the Hammer Film Co. from the 1950s to ...
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