Malcolm Arnold

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-10-21 (85 years old)

Deathday

2006-09-23

Place of Birth

Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Malcolm Arnold

Biography

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar. De...

Production

1963

Nine Hours to Rama

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Belles of St. Trinian's

as Original Music Composer

1956

Trapeze

as Original Music Composer

1959

Suddenly, Last Summer

as Original Music Composer

1956

Wicked as They Come

as Original Music Composer

1952

Stolen Face

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Chalk Garden

as Original Music Composer

1950

Your Witness

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Angry Silence

as Original Music Composer

1955

I Am a Camera

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Sleeping Tiger

as Original Music Composer

1953

Four Sided Triangle

as Original Music Composer

1952

2000

1969

1955

1953

36 Hours

as Additional Music

1951

No Highway in the Sky

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Constant Husband

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Lion

as Conductor

1953

The Captain's Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1961

Whistle Down the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1954

Hobson's Choice

as Original Music Composer

1952

It Started in Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Forbidden Street

as Original Music Composer

1953

1956

1984

as Original Music Composer

1954

1960

Tunes of Glory

as Original Music Composer

1949

Dollars and Sense

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Lion

as Music

1955

The Deep Blue Sea

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Heroes of Telemark

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Key

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Ringer

as Original Music Composer

1952

Home at Seven

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Holly and the Ivy

as Original Music Composer

1968

Divertimento

as Music

1970

The Reckoning

as Original Music Composer

1955

A Prize of Gold

as Original Music Composer

1964

The Thin Red Line

as Original Music Composer

1954

Beautiful Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1948

Queen o’ the Border

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

as Original Music Composer

1958

Dunkirk

as Original Music Composer

1957

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

as Original Music Composer

1948

1948

Mining Review

as Conductor

1952

The Sound Barrier

as Original Music Composer

1959

Blind Date

as Conductor

1956

A Hill in Korea

as Original Music Composer

1952

Curtain Up

as Original Music Composer

1957

Island in the Sun

as Conductor

1957

Island in the Sun

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Island

as Music

1959

1962

The Inspector

as Conductor

1962

The Inspector

as Original Music Composer

1959

1961

On the Fiddle

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

as Original Music Composer

1955

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