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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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- July 12, 2001
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James Bernard (1925-2001) was an English composer most closely associated with Hammer Film Productions' legendary run of horror films in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Horror composer James Bernard was born in Nathia Gali, India on the 20th of September, 1925. The son of a British Army officer serving in a regiment still defending the Khyber Pass, Bernard was moved to the UK as a small child along with his brother. The two lived with their grandparents, and the young James spent time discovering a passion for ...
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 ...
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 ...