Kenneth V. Jones
Kenneth Victor Jones FRCM (14 May 1924 – 2 December 2020) was a British film score composer.[1]
Life[]
Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Jones was a scholar at King's School, Canterbury. This was followed by a 6-month RAF-sponsored course in music and philosophy at Queen's College, Oxford and, after the war, 3 years at the Royal College of Music from 1947 (of which he was later made a professor in 1958). He was a composer, founder and original conductor of The Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra and acted as one of the Governors of Rokeby School, helping to raise the £50,000 that was needed to save it from closure in 1966.
He died in December 2020 at the age of 96.[2]
Selected filmography[]
- Sea Wife (1957)
- Fire Down Below (1957)
- How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
- High Flight (1957)
- No Time to Die (1958)
- The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
- Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
- The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
- Jazz Boat (1960)
- Oscar Wilde (1961)
- The Girl on the Boat (1961)
- The Brain (1962)
- Cairo (1963)
- Psyche 59 (1964)
- The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
- Maroc 7 (1967)
- The Projected Man (1967)
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
- Tower of Evil (1972)
- Paganini Strikes Again (1973)
- Professor Popper's Problem (1974)
- Blind Man's Bluff (1977)
- (1977)
- Leopard in the Snow (1978)
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-06. Retrieved 2011-12-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Jones
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