John Cameron (composer)

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John Cameron (born March 20, 1944 in Woodford, Essex ) is a British composer and conductor . He created several musical works for British cinema in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Including compositions for films like Kes , The Night of a Thousand Eyes , man, you are great! , The Metal Man or Murder in the Mirror .

life and career

John Cameron was born in Woodford, Essex, in 1944. He has been playing the piano since he was six. However, his professional career in music did not begin until the mid-1960s during his time as Vice President of Footlights at Cambridge University , where he was involved in a wide variety of stylistically different musical projects, including appearances in well-known clubs in local jazz -Scene. He soon made a name for himself on the music scene as an accomplished arranger. With his musical arrangements for British artists like Donovan , he and the arranger Spike Heatley made it to the top of the US charts with the title Sunshine Superman .

For Ken Loach's film drama Kissed and Beaten, he arranged and conducted Donovan 's film score in 1967. Since 1969, when he composed the music for the film Kes , John Cameron has also been writing film music himself. Cameron has been composing the music for films such as Porridge Makes Sexy , The Ruling Class , Under Deadly Sun , Scalawag , Cash since the early 1970s , The Unstoppable Career of Private Ass , The Superman of the Wild West , An Unprecedented Affair , James Jr. Strikes , Hot Hell Acapulco , Agents Die Twice , Hawks - The Falcons or Stranded for the thriller - At the mercy of love . In 1974 he became a man, you are class! Honored with an Oscar nomination by director Melvin Frank .

As early as 1971, John Cameron had turned successfully to television, where he composed the music for episodes of successful series, as well as the scores for numerous television films, including The Thief of Baghdad (1978), Witness for the Prosecution (1982), the television Two-parter Jack the Ripper with Michael Caine and Lewis Collins (1988), Jekyll and Hyde (1990), Dr. Frankenstein (1992) or in 2006 the emmynominated television film The Path to 9/11 - Ways of Terror .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1971: ITV Saturday Night Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972–1974: No Pardon for Guardian Angels (TV series, 52 episodes)
  • 1977: Specter (TV movie)
  • 1977–1978: 1990 (TV series, 16 episodes)
  • 1978: The Thief of Baghdad (The Thief of Baghdad) (TV movie)
  • 1978: BBC2 Play of the Week (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1979: Disneyland (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1982: Witness for the Prosecution (TV movie)
  • 1983: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1983–1985: The Optimist (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1987: The Secret Garden (TV movie)
  • 1987: Mister Corbett's Ghost (TV movie)
  • 1988: Jack the Ripper - The Treasure Of London (Jack the Ripper) (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1990: Jekyll and Hyde (Jekyll & Hyde) (TV movie)
  • 1990: The World of Eddie Weary (TV movie)
  • 1992: Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein) (TV movie)
  • 1993: Alaska Kid (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1995: Doctor in Fear (TV film)
  • 2005: Our Little Farm (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 2006: The Path to 9/11 (The Path to 9/11) (TV movie)

Short films or documentaries

  • 1979: The Bermuda Triangle (documentary)
  • 2011: Drift (short film)

literature

  • John Cameron. In: Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton: Cult Cinema. , John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Cameron. In: Rob Young: Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music. , Faber & Faber, 2010, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Cameron, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodford, Essex , England