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James Bernard. Composer: Horror of Dracula. Bernard was born in India, the son of a British army officer, but was moved to England as a small child for his health. He was educated at Wellington College, where the future actor Christopher Lee was a classmate.
James Bernard. Composer: Horror of Dracula. Bernard was born in India, the son of a British army officer, but was moved to England as a small child for his health. He was educated at Wellington College, where the future actor Christopher Lee was a classmate.
Career: Assistant to Benjamin Britten; then freelance musician: composer for radio and television, and for films from mid-1950s; 1963—composer of stage musical Virtue in Danger ; 1980—semi-retired to Jamaica; 1994—returned to London and to composing.
James Bernard was a composer who created scores for Hammer horror movies such as Dracula, The Devil Rides Out and The Quatermass Xperiment.
Nov 3, 2011 · James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s, he was one of horror's definitive and distinctive voices, scoring many of Hammer's best-known films, including Dracula. This is a critical biography of James Bernard.
- David Huckvale
Jul 18, 2001 · James Bernard, who composed the eerie musical scores for Britain’s beloved “Hammer horrors,” a series of low-budget gothic vampire and monster movies made by the Hammer Film Co. from the 1950s to...
If any composer has been largely responsible for creating the sound of Hammer, or identified nearly exclusively with the musical significance and atmosphere for horror/fantasy films, it would almost certainly be James Bernard.
