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Malcolm Arnold is a Sound and Additional Music British born on 21 october 1921 at Northampton (United-kingdom)

Malcolm Arnold

Malcolm Arnold
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Birth name Malcolm Henry Arnold
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 october 1921 at Northampton (United-kingdom)
Death 23 september 2006 (at 84 years) at Norfolk (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Malcolm Arnold, né le 21 octobre 1921 à Northampton et mort le 23 septembre 2006 à Norwich, est un compositeur et chef d’orchestre britannique, compositeur notamment de la célèbre musique du film Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï en 1957.

Biography

Il étudie au Royal College of Music avant de rejoindre l’Orchestre philharmonique de Londres en tant que trompettiste (il sera premier trompette de 1946 à 1948). À la fin des années 1940, il se consacre principalement à la composition. Il est promu commandeur dans l’Ordre de l’Empire britannique en 1970, puis anobli en 1993.

Arnold a écrit plusieurs musiques de film, a remporté un Oscar du cinéma pour Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï en 1957, a aussi collaboré à la musique pour « The Belles of St Trinian’s » (1954), « The Inn of the Sixth Happiness » (1958) et « Whistle Down the Wind » (1961) entre autres. Il dirige l’Orchestre philharmonique de Londres lors de l’enregistrement du Concerto for Group and Orchestra du groupe Deep Purple en 1969, et l’Orchestre symphonique de Londres pour la Gemini Suite de Jon Lord.

Ses travaux sont particulièrement populaires parmi les orchestres jeunes et amateurs, pour le jeu facile, et aussi par l’accessibilité de son style, qui combine des éléments de jazz, de folk et de musique populaire.


Œuvres pour orchestre

1945 Divertimento pour orchestre, op. 1
1946 Symphonie pour cordes, op. 13
1949 Symphonie n 1, op. 22
1951 Études symphoniques « Machines », op. 30
1951 Ouverture « Sussex », op. 31
1953 Symphonie n 2, op. 40
1957 Quatre danses écossaises, op. 59
1957 Symphonie des jouets, op. 62
1957 Symphonie n 3, op. 63
1959 Concerto pour guitare (I. Allegro, II. Lento - Vivace - Lento, III. Con brio) écrit pour Julian Bream
1960 Symphonie n 4, op. 71
1961 Symphonie n 5, op. 74
1966 Quatre danses des Cornouailles, op. 91
1967 Symphonie n 6, op. 95
1968 Ouverture « Anniversaire », op. 99
1969 Divertimento n°2
1973 Symphonie n 7, op. 113
1976 Concerto philharmonique, op. 120
1977 Variations pour orchestre, op. 122
1978 Symphonie n 8, op. 124
1986 Quatre danses irlandaises, op. 126
1986 Symphonie n 9, op. 128
1988 Quatre danses galloises, op. 138
1990 Suite « Manx » (petite suite n 3), op. 142
1992 Suite de concert « le choix d’Hobson »
Suite symphonique pour orchestre, op. 12
Œuvres pour orchestre à vent
1950 Danses anglaises, série I, op. 27 (Andantino, Vivace, Mesto, Allegro risoluto)
1951 Danses anglaises, série II, op. 33 (Andantino, Vivace, Mesto, Allegro risoluto)
1952 Rapsodie « Le mur du son », op. 38
1953 Suite « Hommage à la Reine », op. 42
1953 Fanfare pour un 21e anniversaire, op. 44
1955 Fanfare pour un festival
1955 Ouverture « Tam O’Shanter », op. 51a
1956 Grande, grande ouverture, op. 57, pour 3 aspirateurs, 1 machine à cirer, 4 fusils et orchestre
1956 Sarabande et polka du Ballet « Solitaire »
1957 Quatre danses écossaises, op. 59 (Pesante, Vivace, Allegretto, Con Brio)
1957 Marche « Sa majesté le duc de Cambridge », op. 60
1960 Marche étrangère, op. 70
1961 Deux pièces symphoniques, op. 74a
1963 Petite suite pour fanfare de cuivre n 1, op. 80 (Prelude, Siciliano, Rondo)
1963 Prélude, Siciliano et Rondo
1964 « Water Music », op. 82
1967 Petite suite pour fanfare de cuivre n 2, op. 93
1967 Marche du couronnement (Thomas Merritt)
1967 Marche « The Padstow Lifeboat », op. 94
1967 Ouverture « Peterloo », op. 97
1972 Chant de la liberté, pour chœur et orchestre à vent
1973 Fantaisie pour fanfare de cuivre, op. 114a
1978 Symphonie pour cuivres, op. 123
1988 Ouverture « Robert Kett », op. 141
1989 Flourish for a Battle, op. 139
1992 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Suite)
Une fanfare, op. 112
Allegretto et vivace, op. 40a
« Attleborough », op. 78a
Petite suite pour fanfare de cuivre n 3, op. 131
Ouverture « The Fair Field », op. 110
Musiques de films

1946 : This Modern Age
1947 : Avalanche Patrol
1948 : Report on Steel
1948 : Mining Review
1948 : Charting the Seas
1949 : The Frasers of Cabot Cove
1949 : The Gates of Power
1949 : Drums for a Holiday
1949 : This Farming Business
1949 : The Fair County of Ayr
1949 : Badger’s Green
1949 : Britannia Mews
1950 : Science in the Orchestra
1950 : Fifty Acres
1950 : Up for the Cup
1950 : The Riddle of Japan
1950 : Your Witness
1951 : Power for All
1951 : The Changing Face of Europe
1951 : Le Voyage fantastique (No Highway)
1951 : Home to Danger
1952 : Channel Islands
1952 : The Island
1952 : It Started in Paradise
1952 : Home at Seven
1952 : Wings of Danger
1952 : Stolen Face
1952 : Le Mur du son (The Sound Barrier) de David Lean
1952 : L'assassin a de l'humour (The Ringer) de Guy Hamilton
1952 : The Holly and the Ivy
1953 : Man of Africa
1953 : Copenhagen, City of Towers
1953 : Powered Flight: The Story of the Century
1953 : Curtain Up
1953 : Four Sided Triangle
1953 : Capitaine Paradis (The Captain’s Paradise)
1953 : Albert Royal Navy (Albert R.N.)
1954 : Devil on Horseback
1954 : Le Prisonnier du harem (You Know What Sailors Are)
1954 : Royal New Zealand Journey
1954 : Chaussure à son pied (Hobson’s Choice) de David Lean
1954 : La bête s’éveille (The Sleeping Tiger)
1954 : Meurtre sur la Riviera (Beautiful Stranger)
1954 : Welcome the Queen!
1954 : Les Belles de Saint-Trinian (The Belles of St. Trinian’s) de Frank Launder
1954 : The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1955 : La Femme pour Joe (The Woman for Joe)
1955 : The Night My Number Came Up
1955 : Hold up en plein ciel (A Prize of Gold)
1955 : Un mari presque fidèle (The Constant Husband)
1955 : Une fille comme ça (I Am a Camera)
1955 : Fièvre blonde (Value for Money)
1955 : L'Autre Homme (The Deep Blue Sea)
1956 : Commando en Corée (A Hill in Korea)
1956 : 1984
1956 : Wicked as They Come
1956 : Trapèze de Carol Reed
1956 : Port Afrique
1956 : Tiger in the Smoke
1957 : Une île au soleil (Island in the Sun)
1957 : Le Pont de la rivière Kwai (The Bridge on the River Kwai) de David Lean
1957 : Fric-Fracs à gogo (Blue Murder at St Trinian’s) de Frank Launder
1958 : Coupe des alpes : The Story of the 1958 Alpine Rally
1958 : Dunkirk
1958 : La Clef (The Key)
1958 : Les Racines du ciel (The Roots of Heaven)
1958 : L’Auberge du sixième bonheur (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
1959 : The Boy and the Bridge
1959 : Salomon et la reine de Saba (Solomon and Sheba)
1959 : Soudain l’été dernier (Suddenly, Last Summer)
1960 : Le Silence de la colère (The Angry Silence)
1960 : Les Fanfares de la gloire (Tunes of Glory)
1960 : The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s de Frank Launder
1961 : On the Fiddle
1961 : Pas d’amour pour Johnny (No Love for Johnnie)
1961 : Le Vent garde son secret (Whistle Down the Wind)
1962 : L’Inspecteur (Lisa)
1962 : Le Lion (The Lion)
1963 : À neuf heures de Rama (Nine Hours to Rama)
1963 : Tamahine
1964 : Mystère sur la falaise (The Chalk Garden)
1964 : L'attaque dura sept jours
1965 : Les Héros de Télémark (The Heroes of Telemark)
1966 : Sky West and Crooked
1966 : The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery de Frank Launder
1967 : North Sea Strike
1967 : Africa: Texas Style
1969 : David Copperfield (TV)
1970 : The Reckoning
1998 : Band
2000 : The Making of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ (vidéo)

Best films

The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957)
(Original Music Composer) Trapeze
Trapeze
(1956)
(Original Music Composer) Solomon and Sheba
Solomon and Sheba
(1959)
(Music) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
(1958)
(Original Music Composer) The Heroes of Telemark
The Heroes of Telemark
(1965)
(Original Music Composer) The Angry Silence
The Angry Silence
(1960)
(Original Music Composer)

Usually with

Frank Launder
Frank Launder
(5 films)
Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat
(5 films)
Michael Ripper
Michael Ripper
(8 films)
Bert Bates
Bert Bates
(8 films)
Richard Wattis
Richard Wattis
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Malcolm Arnold (66 films)

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Sound

David Copperfield
David Copperfield (1969)
, 1h58
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Phillips, Richard Attenborough, Ralph Richardson, Ron Moody, Cyril Cusack, Laurence Olivier
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.900842.900842.900842.900842.90084
Charles Dickens' Immortal Story of a Young Man's Journey to Maturity. This version finds David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach. In flashback, David remembers his life in 19th century England, as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. He relives his struggle to overcome the loss of his idyllic childhood and the torment inflicted by his hated step-father after his mother’s death. Then virtually abandoned on the streets of Victorian London, David Copperfield is flung into manhood and contends bravely with the perils of big-city corruption and vice; hardships which ultimately fuel his triumph as a talented and successful writer.
Africa: Texas Style!
Africa: Texas Style! (1967)
, 1h49
Directed by Andrew Marton
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Hugh O'Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Adrienne Corri, Ronald Howard, Hayley Mills
Rating53% 2.6666552.6666552.6666552.6666552.666655
Africa Texas Style est un film d'aventure britannique de 1967 réalisé par Andrew Marton et mettant en vedette John Mills, Hugh O'Brian et Nigel Green. Deux cow-boys américains sont embauchés par un éleveur britannique pour superviser sa succession au Kenya. Tourné sur place en Afrique, ce film a conduit à l'émission de télévision Cowboy en Afrique avec Chuck Connors.
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
, 1h30
Directed by Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about education, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, Richard Wattis
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.901962.901962.901962.901962.90196
"Alphonse" Askett (Frankie Howerd) is a hairdresser who is also the operational leader of a gang of crooks who are led behind the scenes by an invisible mastermind (voiced by Stratford Johns). He gives instructions to Askett about the robbery, Operation Windfall, using a variety of James Bond-like communications devices—including a converted showerhead.
The Heroes of Telemark
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
, 2h11
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Roy Dotrice, John Golightly
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65% 3.253053.253053.253053.253053.25305
The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water, which could be used in the manufacture of an Atomic bomb.
Sky West and Crooked
Sky West and Crooked (1965)

Directed by John Mills
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Bayldon, Norman Bird
Rating67% 3.3883253.3883253.3883253.3883253.388325
Hayley Mills plays a seventeen-year-old girl, Brydie White, in a village in the West Country of England. Brydie suffers arrested development after her involvement in a shooting accident. Though physically mature, she retains the mentality and social connections of a teenager and a fascination with dead animals and burial. Believing that she will be unable to survive without her dying mother, the townsfolk fear commitment to an institution is inevitable. Her involvement with a young gypsy man, Roibin Krisenki (played by Ian McShane in one of his earliest film roles) and later personal loss manage to at least partly resolve these mental issues.
The Chalk Garden
The Chalk Garden (1964)
, 1h46
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars, Felix Aylmer
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71% 3.594543.594543.594543.594543.59454
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed teenage granddaughter, who has seen off many previous governesses and who feels intense sexual jealousy and resentment of her beautiful mother.
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line (1964)
, 1h39
Directed by Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Kieron Moore, Stephen Young
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66% 3.343473.343473.343473.343473.34347
As an American infantry battalion aboard a troopship prepares to land on Guadalcanal, Charlie Company's First Sergeant Welsh tells Private Doll he had not provided him with reports that Doll insisted that he gave to Welsh. They are overheard by their company commander Captain Stone. The Captain speaks with Welsh privately and tells him that he witnessed Doll hand Welsh the reports. Welsh replies that he knew he did but that war is insanity and the only way the men can survive the upcoming battle is to live with that fact. The Captain informs Welsh he is not pleased with his attitude. Welsh and Doll continue to be at odds with each other over Doll's independent thinking that extends to his stealing a pistol from another soldier that he thinks will give him an edge in surviving. This portion of the story was not in the novel, but was borrowed from James Jones' 1958 novella, "The Pistol.
Nine Hours to Rama
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
, 2h4
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Robert Morley, Diane Baker, Valerie Gearon, Harry Andrews
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63% 3.194073.194073.194073.194073.19407
The film is a fictional narrative set in the nine hours in the life of Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) that lead up to his assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (J.S. Casshyap). As he prepares for the shooting at Gandhi's residence, flashbacks recall Godse's hostility to Muslims, his adherence to a militant Hindu group that hatches the plot to kill Gandhi, and his involvement with a married woman Rani (Valerie Gearon) and a prostitute Sheila (Diane Baker). Meanwhile, a police officer Supt. Gopal Das (Jose Ferrer) is attempting to find the killer before it is too late.
The Inspector
The Inspector (1962)
, 1h52
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Finlay Currie
Roles Conductor
Rating66% 3.3401253.3401253.3401253.3401253.340125
In 1946 Holland, Lisa Held (Dolores Hart), a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, has fallen prey to ex-Nazi Thorens (Marius Goring), who has promised to smuggle her into Palestine. In reality, Thorens is a white slaver who plans to send Lisa to South America. Unbeknownst to both Lisa and Thorens, they are being trailed by Dutch Inspectors Peter Jongman (Stephen Boyd) and Sergeant Wolters (Donald Pleasence). Jongman carries with him the guilt of not having saved his Jewish fiancée from death at the hands of the Nazis during the war. Jongman follows Lisa and Thorens to London, where Jongman meets with Thorens to discuss Lisa’s situation. During their encounter, Jongman strikes Thorens, who accidentally falls into an SS dagger and dies. Jongman leaves, unaware of Thorens’ death, and thinks Thorens has only passed out from the blow.
The Lion
The Lion (1962)
, 1h36
Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about lions, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin
Roles Conductor
Rating60% 3.0467753.0467753.0467753.0467753.046775
Successful American lawyer Robert Hayward (William Holden) is in Kenya because his ex-wife Christine (Capucine) is having some problems with their eleven-year-old daughter Tina (Pamela Franklin), who has a great affinity with Africa, its customs and its wildlife. Tina spends much of her time in the company of the lion she raised from a cub. Christine has remarried and her new husband John Bullit (Trevor Howard), a former big-game hunter, now manages a large Kenyan animal preserve. Hayward and Bullit compete for the romantic affection of Christine and for the daughterly affection of Tina. The son of a local tribal chief sees Tina as a potential future wife, and his efforts to impress her prove to be disastrous.
On the Fiddle
On the Fiddle (1961)
, 1h26
Directed by Cyril Frankel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King, Eric Barker
Roles Music
Rating58% 2.903752.903752.903752.903752.90375
During the Second World War, spiv Horace Pope is taken to court for street peddling. In mitigation he tells the judge he is only working in the black market while waiting to enlist in the war effort. On hearing this plea, the judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
, 1h39
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Alan Bates, Norman Bird, Diane Clare, John Arnatt
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating75% 3.793713.793713.793713.793713.79371
The plot follows the lives of three Lancashire farm children who discover a fugitive hiding in their barn. The bearded man, referred to as "Blakey" by the police, is mistaken for Jesus Christ by the children, who are influenced by stories they have heard at Sunday school. The fugitive makes no attempt to correct their mistake, especially when he discovers the eldest child, Kathy, is determined to protect him from discovery by the local police. We learn from a poster that he is wanted for murder.