Carl Davis
Sound

Carl Davis

Born 28 October 1936 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Died 3 August 2023

Carl Davis was an American music composer and conductor for film and television. He was the driving force behind the reinvention of the silent movie for this generation and wrote the score to some of the most loved and remembered British television dramas. Davis was a conductor and composer of symphonic works, as well as a notable writer for the ballet.

Known for

Florence Foster Jenkins
Pride and Prejudice
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The World at War
Topsy-Turvy
Frankenstein Unbound
Ethel & Ernest
Scandal
Goodnight, Mister Tom
King David
I, Monster
Cranford
Florence Foster Jenkins
Ethel & Ernest
The Understudy
Garbo
Promoted to Glory
The Book of Eve
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
The Great Gatsby
Topsy-Turvy
The Greatest Store in the World
Le radeau de la Méduse
Goodnight, Mister Tom
An Audience with Charles Dickens
Anne Frank Remembered
Widows' Peak
Liberation
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
The Return of the Native
Lie Down with Lions
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
Genghis Cohn
The Trial
Voyage
A Sense of History
Northern Ballet's A Christmas Carol
Echoes That Remain
The Black Velvet Gown
The Crucifer of Blood
Separate but Equal
Frankenstein Unbound
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Crossing to Freedom
Scandal
The Yellow Wallpaper
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
The Rainbow
The Girl in a Swing
Journey's End
A Simple Man
Hotel du Lac
A Song for Europe
King David
Praying Mantis
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Silas Marner
Fragments of Isabella
Sakharov
Champions
Macbeth
The Weather in the Streets
The Aerodrome
Landscape
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
Home Sweet Home
L’Elegance
Schoolgirl Chums
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Staying On
The Merchant of Venice
Birth of the Beatles
Brecht and Co
The Light Princess
Langrishe, Go Down
The Sea
The Kiss of Death
Your Man from Six Counties
The Paradise Run
Where Adam Stood
The Lady of the Camellias
Man Friday
The Naked Civil Servant
The Cay
The National Health
The Catholics
The Merchant of Venice
Rentadick
Up the Chastity Belt
Stocker's Copper
What Became of Jack and Jill?
I, Monster
Up Pompeii
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Edward II
The Bofors Gun
Carl Davis · Midrow