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Scored numerous British historical and period films and won international recognition for his popular "Warsaw Concerto" from the 1940 film, "Dangerous Moonlight/Suicide Squadron". After writing incidental music for the stage, Addinsell first went to Hollywood in the early 1930s and returned to England to become a mainstay of the British film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, writing the music for such period films as "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939), "Gaslight" (1940), "A Christmas Carol" (1951), "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) and "A Tale of Two Cities" (1958) as well as the more contemporary, "The Roman Spring of Mrs....
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Filmography

The Sea Wolves - ( Song / 1980 / Released / )
Life at the Top - ( Music / 1965 / Released / )
Waltz of the Toreadors - ( Music / 1962 / Released / )
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - ( Music / 1961 / Released / )
A Tale of Two Cities - ( Music / 1958 / Released / )
The Prince and the Showgirl - ( Music / 1957 / Released / )
Beau Brummell - ( Music / 1954 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
A Christmas Carol - ( Music / 1951 / Released / )
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - ( Music / / Released / )
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Scored numerous British historical and period films and won international recognition for his popular "Warsaw Concerto" from the 1940 film, "Dangerous Moonlight/Suicide Squadron". After writing incidental music for the stage, Addinsell first went to Hollywood in the early 1930s and returned to England to become a mainstay of the British film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, writing the music for such period films as "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939), "Gaslight" (1940), "A Christmas Carol" (1951), "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) and "A Tale of Two Cities" (1958) as well as the more contemporary, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1961) and "Life at the Top" (1965).

Profession(s):
composer
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Education
Hartford College Oxford, England
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1936 Returned to Britain
1933 Moved to New York; wrote musical score for Eva Le Galliene's "Alice in Wonderland"
1933 Entered films with RKO
1928 Composed setting for Clemence Dane's stage play, "Adam's Opera", London

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