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John Mervyn Addison (16 March 1920 – 7 December 1998) was a British composer best known for his film scores. [1] Early life. Addison was born in Chobham, Surrey [2] to a father who was a colonel in the Royal Field Artillery, and this influenced the decision to send him to school at Wellington College, Berkshire.
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John Addison (1920-1998) was a film and TV music composer who won an Oscar for Tom Jones. He also acted in some films and TV shows, and was the musical director for Bertolt Brecht's play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards".
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Dec 7, 1998 · Biography. English composer John Addison (1920-1998) lent his sophisticated—one is tempted to call it "erudite"—symphonic style to such notable pictures as Tom Jones, Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (replacing Bernard Herrmann), Sleuth, Swashbuckler, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and A Bridge Too Far.
Learn about the life and career of John Addison, a British composer of music for the concert hall, film, theatre and television. He wrote over 100 film scores, including Oscar-winning Tom Jones, and worked with directors like Hitchcock, Boulting and Attenborough.
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John Addison, who has died aged 78, was one of the most English of film composers, and his jaunty, ironic scores accompanied some of the most English of films. His music was heard on the sound track of many Boulting Brothers pictures and the majority of Tony Richardson's.
