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Anthony (Vincent Benedictus) Collins est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre anglais, né le 3 septembre 1893 à Hastings (Sussex de l'Est, Angleterre), mort le 11 décembre 1963 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Pour le cinéma, il compose les musiques de vingt-six films britanniques ou américains, le premier étant La Reine Victoria d'Herbert Wilcox (avec Anna Neagle dans le rôle-titre et Anton Walbrook), sorti en 1937. Il collabore à plusieurs reprises avec Herbert Wilcox (souvent sur des films ayant Anna Neagle, épouse du réalisateur, comme vedette), notamment pour son premier film américain sorti en 1939, Edith Cavell (avec l'actrice dans le rôle-titre et George Sanders), ou encore pour Odette, agent S 23 (1950, avec également Trevor Howard et Marius Goring).
Son deuxième film américain est Le Premier Rebelle de William A. Seiter (1939, avec Claire Trevor et John Wayne). Un autre de ses films notables est Le Paradis des mauvais garçons de Josef von Sternberg (1952, avec Robert Mitchum et Jane Russell).
Sa dernière composition originale au cinéma est pour le film mexicain Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé de Luis Buñuel (avec Dan O'Herlihy dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1954.
Trois de ses films américains — dont Edith Cavell pré-cité — lui valent au début des années 1940 autant de nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film (voir détails ci-dessous).
Comme compositeur « classique », on lui doit entre autres des pièces de musique légère, deux concertos pour violon, deux symphonies pour cordes, de la musique de chambre, des mélodies et quatre opéras brefs.
Installé aux États-Unis, Anthony Collins meurt à Los Angeles en 1963.
(1954)
(Original Music Composer)
(1950)
(Conductor)
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Birth name Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 september 1893 at Hastings (United-kingdom)
Death 11 december 1963 (at 70 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 september 1893 at Hastings (United-kingdom)
Death 11 december 1963 (at 70 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Anthony (Vincent Benedictus) Collins est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre anglais, né le 3 septembre 1893 à Hastings (Sussex de l'Est, Angleterre), mort le 11 décembre 1963 à Los Angeles (Californie).
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Au début des années 1920, Anthony Collins étudie la composition (avec Gustav Holst) et le violon à la Royal Academy of Music de Londres. De 1926 à 1936, il est premier alto de l'orchestre symphonique de Londres, qu'il dirige pour la première fois en 1938, dans la 1 symphonie d'Edward Elgar. Il laisse plusieurs témoignages discographiques comme chef d'orchestre (notamment de la musique d'Elgar), mais reste surtout connu pour son intégrale des symphonies de Jean Sibelius, réalisée chez Decca de 1952 à 1955.Pour le cinéma, il compose les musiques de vingt-six films britanniques ou américains, le premier étant La Reine Victoria d'Herbert Wilcox (avec Anna Neagle dans le rôle-titre et Anton Walbrook), sorti en 1937. Il collabore à plusieurs reprises avec Herbert Wilcox (souvent sur des films ayant Anna Neagle, épouse du réalisateur, comme vedette), notamment pour son premier film américain sorti en 1939, Edith Cavell (avec l'actrice dans le rôle-titre et George Sanders), ou encore pour Odette, agent S 23 (1950, avec également Trevor Howard et Marius Goring).
Son deuxième film américain est Le Premier Rebelle de William A. Seiter (1939, avec Claire Trevor et John Wayne). Un autre de ses films notables est Le Paradis des mauvais garçons de Josef von Sternberg (1952, avec Robert Mitchum et Jane Russell).
Sa dernière composition originale au cinéma est pour le film mexicain Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé de Luis Buñuel (avec Dan O'Herlihy dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1954.
Trois de ses films américains — dont Edith Cavell pré-cité — lui valent au début des années 1940 autant de nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film (voir détails ci-dessous).
Comme compositeur « classique », on lui doit entre autres des pièces de musique légère, deux concertos pour violon, deux symphonies pour cordes, de la musique de chambre, des mélodies et quatre opéras brefs.
Installé aux États-Unis, Anthony Collins meurt à Los Angeles en 1963.
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, 1h24Directed by Gavin Millar
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Lionel Jeffries, Jean Marsh
Roles Wheeler
Rating66%
In 1955, William Smith (Jeremy Irons), a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son Danny (Samuel Irons) in a Vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside.
Personal Services (1987)
, 1h45Directed by Terry Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Julie Walters, Shirley Stelfox, Alec McCowen, Tim Woodward, Dave Aktins, Ewan Hooper
Roles Mr. Webb
Rating62%
Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local tarts. She later becomes a call girl herself - joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller) - and specializes in fetish/kink roleplay with older gentlemen. With her new family of friends and admirers, she becomes a huge sensation leading to wealth and infamy in the tabloids. The brothel business also brings out Christine's self-confidence, and leads to repairing a previously strained relationship with her father.
Trent's Last Case (1952)
, 1h30Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson, Hugh McDermott
Roles Conductor
Rating59%
A major international financier is found dead at his Hampshire home. The Record newspaper assigns its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to the case. In spite of the police cordon, he manages to gain entry to the house by posing as a relative. While there he manages to pick up some of the background to the case from Inspector Murch, the Irish detective leading the investigation. Despite Murch's suggestion that the death is suicide, Trent quickly becomes convinced that it was in fact murder.
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Robinson Crusoe (1954)
, 1h30Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Dan O'Herlihy, Felipe de Alba
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66%
Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy), a third son with few prospects, goes to sea against his father's wishes. On a voyage from Brazil to Africa to collect slaves, a storm forces him to abandon ship. He swims alone to a deserted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30, 1659.
Laughing Anne (1953)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Robert H. Harris, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner, Daphne Anderson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
Macao (1952)
, 1h21Directed by Robert Stevenson, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Brad Dexter
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Three strangers arrive at the port of Macao on the same ship: Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum), a cynical-but-honest ex-serviceman, Julie Benson (Jane Russell), an equally cynical, sultry night club singer, and Lawrence Trumble (William Bendix), a traveling salesman who deals in both silk stockings and contraband.
Trent's Last Case (1952)
, 1h30Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson, Hugh McDermott
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59%
A major international financier is found dead at his Hampshire home. The Record newspaper assigns its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to the case. In spite of the police cordon, he manages to gain entry to the house by posing as a relative. While there he manages to pick up some of the background to the case from Inspector Murch, the Irish detective leading the investigation. Despite Murch's suggestion that the death is suicide, Trent quickly becomes convinced that it was in fact murder.
Derby Day (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Samuel John Kydd, John McCallum
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. Meanwhile, as part of a charity raffle, a dissolute film star, Gerald Berkeley, is to escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom for the day something he is equally reluctant about. Happily she falls and injures her leg, and her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young maids to go in her place. Meanwhile, in Battersea, a lodger kills a man whose wife he is having an affair with. They plan to flee the country, and also head to Epsom where he knows a tipster who can smuggle them out.
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
, 1h50Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Young, Edwin Styles, Rosalie Crutchley
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
Illustrating the political complexities the hard-headed nurse had to battle in order to achieve sanitary medical conditions during the Crimean War. Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Florence Nightingale is championed by the Hon. Sidney Herbert (Michael Wilding), minister of war. Herbert pulls strings to allow Nightingale and her nursing staff access to battlefield hospitals, and in so doing changes the course of medical history.
Odette (1950)
, 2h4Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Quéant
Roles Conductor
Rating68%
Le film relate l'activité d'Odette Sansom, héroïne française du Special Operations Executive, qui fut courrier (agent de liaison) dans le réseau SPINDLE de Peter Churchill actif dans le sud-est de la France, et qui fut arrêtée en avril 1943 avant d'être déportée à Ravensbrück.
, 2hDirected by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Jack Watling, Michael Medwin, Coral Browne, Helen Cherry
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
The son of a baronet shocks class-conscious 1900 British society by marrying an Irish servant. The film chronicles 45 years in their lives together and apart.
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Roger Moore, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby, Brenda Bruce
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
A married woman is believed dead in a shipwreck, but returns home with the Second World War at its height to find her husband remarried.
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
, 2h10Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison, Dean Jagger, Robert Morley, Nancy Price, Ronald Shiner
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61%
In the summer of 1943, after he is taken off combat operations for medical reasons, American SSgt John Patterson (Dean Jagger), an Army Air Force gunner, is billeted in the London home of the Duke of Exmoor (Robert Morley) in London's Grosvenor Square. He is befriended by the Duke and British paratrooper Major David Bruce (Rex Harrison), who has taken leave to contest a parliamentary by-election.
Destroyer (1943)
, 1h39Directed by William A. Seiter, Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan, Leo Gorcey, Regis Toomey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
In 1943 retired Navy Chief Bosun's Mate Steve "Boley" Boleslavski (Edward G. Robinson) helps build the destroyer John Paul Jones, the namesake of the ship he served on in World War I, sunk a quarter century later while saving an aircraft carrier from being torpedoed. When he finds out that an old shipmate, Lieutenant Commander Clark (Regis Toomey), is the ship's new captain, he returns to the Navy and wrangles a berth as the ship's leading chief bosun's mate.
Forever and a Day (1943)
, 1h44Directed by Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Herbert Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Kent Smith, George Kirby, Ruth Warrick, Merle Oberon, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick), tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.