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From the 1980s, Ken Thorne mainly focused on his work for TV, working predominantly with director Kevin Connor. His television work included the theme to the 1964 BBC series R3, and he also scored incidental music for The Persuaders! and The Zoo Gang in the 1970s. His later work included the score for the miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove in 1993.
Ken Thorne was born on 26 January 1924 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983) and U-571 (2000). He was married to Linda Hays.
- Music Department, Composer, Soundtrack
- January 26, 1924
- Ken Thorne
- July 9, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 · Ken Thorne, the Academy Award-winning film composer who worked on movies by the Beatles and the Monkees, died of natural causes on July 9.He was 90. According to the L.A. Times, the British-born ...
Jul 11, 2014 · Oscar-winning composer Ken Thorne died Tuesday, according to the funeral home handling his final arrangements. He was 90. Thorne won an Oscar for scoring the 1966 musical “A Funny Thing Happened ...
Ken Thorne was born on 26 January 1924 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983) and U-571 (2000). He was married to Linda Hays.
- January 26, 1924
- July 9, 2014
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Ken Thorne began his musical career as a pianist with the big bands in his native England during the 1940s, playing the night clubs and the dance halls. Later, aged 27, Thorne decided to seriously study composition with private tutors at Cambridge. He then studied the organ for five years under Dr. Sidney Campbell at Ely Cathedral, and later ...
Jul 10, 2014 · Oscar-Winning Composer Ken Thorne Dies at 90. He took home an Academy Award for scoring "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and earned a Grammy nomination for The Beatles' "Help!"
