Stanley MyersFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1933
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Between 1966 and 1987, versatile British composer Stanley Myers scored over 60 American and British feature films beginning with Kaleidoscope (1966). His best-known theme is that of The Deer Hunter (1978). Myers also penned the acclaimed "Cavatina" for John Williams. His collaboration with...Read More

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Heart of Darkness

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Malkovich, Tim Roth

Synopsis: Previously the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), the dark novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a parable about greed-inspired colonialism, was adapted into this television movie by offbeat filmmaker Nicolas Roeg. Ambitious sailor Marlow (Tim Roth) is employed by Read More

1994
Middlemarch

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Juliet Aubrey, Patrick Malahide, Douglas Hodge, Trevyn McDowell, Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: In this 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel, altruism, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against snobbery, economic oppression, and self-indulgence. Set in the fictional town of Middlemarch in the 1830s, the film begins when Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) arrives in Read More

1994
The Summer House

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Lena Headey, David Threlfall

Synopsis: Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on marriage with her mother-dominated next door neighbor until everyone's comfortable life is disrupted by a visit from her exotic and flamboyant friend Lili (Jeanne Moreau, in a Read More

1993
Trusting Beatrice

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Irène Jacob, Charlotte Moore, Pat McNamara, Leo Cimino

Synopsis: Claude is a landscaper who is having a terrible day. He has been abandoned by his girl friend, humiliated by his boss, and just vented his rage on an innocent girl scout selling cookies. Later he is burning pictures of his girlfriend when something goes amiss and he ends up torching his apartment Read More

1993
Stalag Luft

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Stephen Fry, Geoffrey Palmer, Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis: The winner of the Ivor Novello Award for Television Theme Music in 1994, director Adrian Shergold's spoof of wartime escape films tells the tale of a bumbling RAF Officer who plots the escape of 327 prisoners from a German POW camp. Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times Read More

1993
Sarafina!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Mbongeni Ngema

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. An adaptation of Mbongeni Ngema's popular musical, which ran on Broadway from 1988 to 1989, Sarafina! recounts the political coming of age of the Read More

9/18/92
Cold Heaven

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Theresa Russell, Mark Harmon, James Russo, Talia Shire, Will Patton

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (based on a novel by Brian Moore) examines grief and loss and spiritual questions concerning belief and faith. Theresa Russell plays Maria, a woman in deep despair over the death of her husband Alex (Mark Harmon) in a boating accident. When Alex's body disappears from Read More

5/29/92
Voyager

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Dieter Kirchlechner, Traci Lind

Synopsis: Set in the 1950s, Voyager concerns the travels of an American construction engineer (Sam Shepard) who is wandering throughout Europe, recounting his life story through a series of flashbacks while meeting a variety of new characters. At first, he meets a man whom he knew during his time as a Read More

1/31/92
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Anthony Shaw directs his mother, Angela Lansbury of Murder She Wrote, in this lighthearted made-for-television adventure. Set in the 1950's, Lansbury stars as Mrs. Harris, a common British woman so intent on owning a Dior gown, that she slaves and scrimps for years. However, upon travelling to Read More

1992
Iron Maze

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, J.T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon

Synopsis: Iron Maze updates the Akira Kurosawa Rashomon tale and works it into a story involving the Japanese corporate takeover of a Pennsylvania steel mill. When Junich Sugita (Hiroaki Murakami), the son of a Japanese businessman, is found beaten to death in the steel mill just purchased by the father Read More

11/1/91
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

2/8/91
The Witches

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: In Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, a young boy is vacationing at the seaside with his grandmother when he discovers that the hotel he is staying at is hosting a convention of witches. Eavesdropping on the witches, he learns that the Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) Read More

2/16/90
Dark Obsession

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Michael Hordern, Judy Parfitt, Douglas Hodge

Synopsis: Dark Obsession is a slow, English-made, psychological thriller dealing with erotic obsession, guilt and betrayal. Sir Hugo Buckton (Gabriel Byrne), an aristocrat strapped for money, is married to beautiful, sensual and successful Virginia (Amanda Donohoe). His alcoholism and his envy of her lead Read More

1990
Torrents of Spring

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, Francesca de Sapio, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ivan Turgenev, this drama tells of a young Russian noble during the mid 19th century who, although engaged to a young pastry chef, falls for a seductive married noblewoman who has arranged to buy his estate. Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino star in this Read More

11/17/89
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: In this satirical skewering of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, a divorced Beverly Hills gal ends up on the doorstep of her next-door neighbor, an out-of-work TV sitcom actress who happens to have a socially eclectic group of friends and a deceased husband who can't accept the fact that he Read More

6/2/89
Paperhouse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlotte Burke, Ben Cross, Glenne Headly, Elliott Spears, Gemma Jones, Sarah Newbold

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her "paper house" while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke Read More

2/17/89
Age Old Friends

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia star as two retirement-home residents, longtime friends who possess wildly diverse temperaments. - John Cooper (Cronyn) is crotchety and physically frail, but his brain is sharp as a tack. Michael Aylott (Gardenia) is easygoing and in excellent health, but his mind Read More

1989
Danny, the Champion of the World

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good guys" hardly needs to be forced, since the roles Read More

1989
Christabel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillone

Synopsis: A BBC production, Christabel was one of several British TV iniseries seen during the 1988-89 season of the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theatre. Dennis Potter adapted the teleplay from Christabel Bielenberg's autobiography The Past is Myself. Elizabeth Hurley plays Christabel, a British woman Read More

1989
The Boost

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, Kelle Kerr

Synopsis: James Woods and Sean Young were still "an item" when they costarred in The Boost. The stars play an investment broker and his girlfriend, who begin snorting cocaine on a recreational basis. Inevitably, the drug takes its toll, and soon Woods and Young have thrown away their lives in their Read More

12/23/88
Track 29

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Sandra Bernhard, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this peculiar, darkly comic drama. Theresa Russell plays the deeply disappointed Linda Henry, who feels stifled by a strained marriage to Dr. Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), who pays more attention to his model Read More

9/9/88
Stars and Bars

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Martha Plimpton, Matthew Cowles, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: Though a fine cast was assembled for this comedy, none can save this embarrassingly humorless satire. Henderson Dores (Daniel-Day Lewis) is a very proper British art expert sent to rural Georgia by his boss to purchase a painting by Renoir. The present owner, hillbilly Loomis Gage (Harry Dean Stanton Read More

3/18/88
Taffin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child, Dearbhla Molloy

Synopsis: This melodrama is set in Ireland and follows bill collector and karate master Taffin as he and other try to keep a soccer field from being destroyed by developers. Soon he finds himself involved in a sticky web of blackmail, political corruption and murder all precipitated by the avarice of a Read More

2/26/88
Absolution

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, Dai Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive their hated headmaster (Richard Burton) insane. The boys launch their scheme by cooking up the most bizarre and depraved of imaginary sins, then recite these infractions in Read More

2/12/88
Shoulder to Shoulder

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The elaborate British miniseries Shoulder to Shoulder was an anecdotal dramatization of the women's suffrage movement in England. Covering the period from the 1890s to the end of WWI, the series focused on the movement's most vocal proponent, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst (Sian Phillips). As Emmeline's Read More

1988
Stones for Ibarra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Glenn Close, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: Glenn Close and Keith Carradine are the only non-Latino cast members of the made-for-TV Stones for Ibarra. Close and Carradine portray a San Francisco couple who feel they've lost touch with life's meaning. They journey to a tiny Mexican village, where they find themselves sharing the Read More

1988
Ladder of Swords

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: Down on their luck, stranded out on the moors of England, the "Three D's" are a trio of circus performers (a bear trainer and his wife plus the bear) who have attracted the unwelcome attention of a policeman, to whom they appear to be altogether shady characters. Not only that, but after a Read More

1988
Nature of the Beast

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lynton Deardon, Paul Simpson, Tony Melody, Freddie Fletcher, Dave Hill

Synopsis: Bill Coward (Lynton Deardon) is a 14-year-old teenager who is intrigued by stories of a mysterious beast who is killing sheep and chickens. Bill's father Ned (Freddie Fletcher) fears the beast of unemployment when the Haverston mill closes down. The once-bright outlook of the adults and children Read More

1988
Tidy Endings

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stockard Channing, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Based on the play by actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein, this drama is about a man (played by Fierstein) whose companion dies of AIDS. He then confronts his lover's ex-wife (Stockard Channing) and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death. ~ Kristie Read More

1988
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan Din, Roland Gift

Synopsis: In this alternately comic and grave reflection on the effects of Thatcherism on polyethnic England, middle-class liberals Rosie (Frances Barber) and Sammy (Ayub Khan Din) engage in an openly adulterous marriage while living in a lower-class neighborhood in London. When they're not hiding their Read More

10/30/87
You Talkin' to Me?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jim Youngs, James Noble, Mykelti Williamson, Faith Ford, Bess Motta

Synopsis: In this film, an aspiring young actor moves to Los Angeles from his New York home, hoping to make it big in show business. Idolizing actor Robert De Niro, the young man must learn to cope with the rejection and despair he experiences in his career struggle. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

9/25/87
Castaway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg directed this dreamy erotic adventure film based on two Australian non-fiction best-sellers -- Lucy Irvine's Castaway and Gerald Kingsland's The Islander. Both best-sellers concern former clerk and waitress Lucy Irvine's response to an advertisement placed by writer Gerald Kingsland Read More

9/4/87
Wish You Were Here

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin, Geoffrey Hutchings

Synopsis: The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British seaside community of the 1950s, where the local adults are shocked and embarrassed by the libertine Lynda (Lloyd), who dresses provocatively, behaves outrageously, and swears like Read More

7/24/87
Prick Up Your Ears

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Read More

4/17/87
Scoop

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1987
Baja Oklahoma

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

1987
Trading Hearts

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Raul Julia, Beverly D'Angelo, Jenny Lewis, Parris Buckner, Robert Gwaltney

Synopsis: Sportswriter Frank Deford wrote the screenplay to this romantic melodrama about a washed-up baseball pitcher and a second-rate lounge singer. Vinnie (Raul Julia) is the veteran hurler who has just been cut in spring training by the Boston Red Sox. He stops off at a hotel where Donna (Beverly D'Angelo Read More

1987
The Wind

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum, Robert Morley, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been responsible for undistinguished genre efforts like Blood Tide, Grandma's House, and this thriller. Meg Foster stars as Sian, an American mystery writer who comes to an imposing Read More

1987
The Lightship

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tom Bower, Robert Costanzo, Badja Djola

Synopsis: Before entering this story of a battle between the ostensible forces of good over evil, viewers should know that a lightship is a floating lighthouse, anchored in dangerous waters to warn other ships away. The German-American Captain Miller (Klaus Maria Brandauer) is in charge of one such Read More

9/26/86
My Beautiful Laundrette

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual convinces his shady entrepreneur brother to provide work for his son in this multi-layered portrait of the immigrant experience in Great Britain. Young Londoner Omar (Gordon Read More

3/7/86
The Second Victory

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, Helmut Griem, Mario Adorf, Birgit Doll

Synopsis: The first victory in The Second Victory is the Allied triumph in World War II. British major Anthony Andrews, in charge of the occupation troops in a remote Austrian village, must deal with the uncooperative attitude of the locals when one of his men is killed by a deranged Axis soldier. Andrews Read More

1986
Separate Vacations

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Naughton, Jennifer Dale, Mark Keyloun, Laurie Holden, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: An unhappily married husband takes off to Mexico in hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic interlude, and scores nothing but zeros. Meanwhile, the wife and kids, who have been left at home, decide to go on their planned ski vacation anyway. Up on the slopes, the mom tries to resist the continual Read More

1986
Strong Medicine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This two-part, four-hour TV miniseries was adapted from the same-named 1984 novel by Arthur Hailey. Pamela Sue Martin headed the huge cast as Celia Gray, a young woman who rose from humble drug store clerk to become the head of a major pharmaceutical manufacturing firm during the 1950s and 1960s. Read More

1986
The Zero Boys

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daniel Hirsch, Kelli Maroney, Tom Shell, Nicole Sue Rio, Jared Moses

Synopsis: When friends Larry (Tom Shell), Steve (Daniel Hirsch), and Rip (Jared Moses) decide to celebrate their survival game victory by heading out to the California backwoods to camp and party, they accidentally stumble across the hideout of a group of murderers. With the sinister killers on their trail Read More

1986
Monte Carlo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Robert Carradine, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the French city. She moonlights, however, as an Allied spy to retaliate against the Nazis who murdered her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Harry's Kingdom

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Harry's Kingdom and Harry's Machine are alternate titles for the 1985 low-budgeter Hollywood Harry. Actor Robert Forster made his directorial debut in this languid private eye flick, reserving the "hard boiled dick" lead for himself. Forster is hired to find a missing girl; his only lead is the Read More

1986
Insignificance

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson

Synopsis: Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature of despair, director Nicolas Roeg has created an intriguing drama. Based on a play by Terry Johnson, the story begins with the blond Theresa Russell as a sex-goddess Read More

1985
Dreamchild

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley

Synopsis: Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in Dreamchild. The film is set in 1932, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll. The guest of honor at the New York-based celebration is Read More

1985
The Chain

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Herbert Norville, Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Maurice Denham, Nigel Hawthorne, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern, Warren Mitchell, David Troughton, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters, another moves in, and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansioned owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern, wishing to be Read More

1985
Florence Nightingale

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: Jaclyn Smith is a curious choice to play the title character in the made-for-TV biopic Florence Nightingale. This fact, however, never enters into the consciousness of the viewer, thanks to Smith's excellent performance. Some liberties are taken with the details of the life of "The Lady with the Read More

1985
Black Arrow

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Benedict Taylor, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale. Stephen Chase plays the title character, a dogooding swashbuckler who tries to avenge his father's murder during the War of the Roses. Though Chase carries the bulk of the Read More

1984
Success is the Best Revenge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael York, Janna Szerzerbic, Michael Lyndon, George Skolimowski, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Read More

1984
Blind Date

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Joseph Bottoms, James Daughton, Lana Clarkson, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: Co-writer and director Nico Mastorakis filmed this unusual low-budget thriller in his native Athens, Greece. Timothy Bottoms stars as Jonathan Ratcliff, an American advertising executive who has lost his sight, although the specialist he consults, Dr. Steiger (Keir Dullea), feels that the cause is Read More

1984
Beyond the Limit

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: John Mackenzie directed this schematic adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling thriller The Honorary Consul. Richard Gere stars as Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a brilliant doctor who has chosen to practice in the provinces rather than the teeming city of Buenos Aires because his father remains a Read More

1983
The Incubus

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cassavetes, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes, Erin Flannery, Duncan McIntosh

Synopsis: A series of brutal rapes and murders have begun occurring in a small town. Teenager, Tim (Duncan McIntosh), has had horrible dreams and fears he is the murderer, especially since many of his friends have been victims. The town doctor, Sam Cordell (John Cassavetes), and the sheriff, Hank (John Read More

1982
Time Traveller

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Keir Dullea, Adrienne Barbeau, Jeremy Licht, Peter Hobbs, Phaedon Georgitsis

Synopsis: In this standard sci-fi romance, the widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau) lives on a Greek island with her son Timmy (Jeremy Licht) and, like the other islanders, is amazed when a stranger Keir Dullea washes up on shore during a magnetic storm. She brings the apparently injured man home to help him Read More

1982
Moonlighting

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiri Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz

Synopsis: Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place to stay, Irons and his buddies -- none of whom have British work permits -- agree to renovate their landlord's flat within a limited time-frame. Despite their hectic schedule, the boys agree never Read More

1982
The Watcher in the Woods

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

Actors: Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Ian Bannen, Lynn-Holly Johnson

Synopsis: This Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by Florence Engel Randall. An American family, headed by composer Paul Curtis (David McCallum) and his wife Helen (Carroll Baker), is renting an old mansion in England. The mansion's owner Read More

1981
Eureka

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in director Nicolas Roeg's convoluted, arty drama. Gene Hackman stars as Jack McCann, a one-time gold prospector who his parlayed the discovery of a rich deposit in the Read More

1981
The Gentleman Bandit

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Made for television, The Gentleman Bandit stars Ralph Waite as a popular priest whose life is shattered by a case of mistaken identity. Waite is fingered by a witness as a holdup man; during a lineup, several other witnesses confirm this. Despite his protestations, Waite cannot account for his Read More

1981
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs

Synopsis: The once-notorious D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover seemed like kid stuff by the time this 1981 adaptation hit the screens. To pep up Lawrence's tale of an aristocratic woman who conducts an affair with her earthy gamekeeper, soft-core porn specialist Just Jaeckin attempted to convert Read More

1981
The Martian Chronicles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be the ne plus ultra of televised sci-fi/fantasy. That it fell short of this goal was not the fault of the actors but of the script, which reduced Ray Bradbury's complex Read More

1980
Yesterday's Hero

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers, Adam Faith, Paul Nicholas, Sam Kydd

Synopsis: Jackie Collins screenplay falters in this so-so melodrama about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a has-been soccer whiz who one day gets a second chance to reach for the brass ring. He joins a team owned by a playboy rock star (Paul Nicholas) and Read More

1979
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Why is it that some of the most outlandish movie plotlines are grounded in reality? The Great Riviera Bank Robbery is based on an actual occurrence in 1976. A fascist terrorist group, known as "The Chain", joins forces with a gang of professional criminals to pull off a heist. The target: a bank Read More

1979
Border Cop

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Telly Savalas, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: The original title of this film was The Border. It tells the story of one border guard's desire to put an end to the practice of hauling truck loads of illegal Mexican workers across the border and into California where they are forced to work for a mere pittance. Mexico provided the background Read More

1979
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bosco Hogan, John Gielgud, T.P. McKenna, Maureen Potter

Synopsis: Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego Stephen Daedelus, an irrepressible boy at eternal odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and Read More

1979
The Deer Hunter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use Read More

1978
The Greek Tycoon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right. Anthony Quinn stars as Greek shipping-magnate Theo Tomassis, who becomes the second husband of socialite Liz Cassidy (Jacqueline Bisset). It seems that Liz is the widow of Read More

1978
Summer of My German Soldier

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: Despite its far-fetched plotline, the made-for-TV Summer of My German Soldier was popular with audiences and critics alike. The film is set in Georgia during World War II. Bruce Davison plays Anton Reiker, a German POW assigned to work at a local farm. Reiker escapes, taking refuge in a barn owned Read More

1978
The Class of Miss MacMichael

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing

Synopsis: Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely one step away from prison. She has a boyfriend, Martin (Michael Murphy) who would love to take her away from the chaos and heartbreak of the classroom by marrying her, but Read More

1978
The Comeback

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David F. Doyle, Bill Owen, Sheila Keith

Synopsis: British sado-exploitation guru Pete Walker directed this mundane horror-mystery about an American pop star (Jack Jones) who, after a long hiatus, decides to return to England in an attempt to jump-start his career and finds himself immersed in a supernatural mystery involving the grisly murder of Read More

1978
Schizo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Frightmare director Pete Walker follows-up his 1976 shocker The Confessional with this grim tale of a beautiful figure skater who falls victim to a murderous stalker. Samantha Gray was just a young girl when her mother was murdered right before her eyes. Years later, Samantha (Lynne Frederick) has Read More

1977
Le Coup De Grace

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rudiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: 1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Read More

1976
Conduct Unbecoming

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual violation--which may or may not have occurred. In British India, highborn Mrs. Scarlett (Susannah York) accuses 2nd Lt. Millington, a Bengal Lancer officer (James Faulkner) of raping her. Lieutenant Arthur Read More

1975
House of Whipcord

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this British exploitation film, an elderly husband and wife begin torturing young women whose behavior offends their puritan sensibilities. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Confessional

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Sharp

Synopsis: British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing tale. A deranged, sex-mad priest (Anthony Sharpe) exploits the sanctity of his office as a means of harassing young women who confide their sins in his confessional Read More

1975
The Wilby Conspiracy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: The Wilby Conspiracy is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) finds an unlikely -- and reluctant -- ally in the form of the British Keogh (Michael Caine). Both Twala and Keogh are scrutinized by racist police Read More

1975
Caravan to Vaccares

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, David Birney, Michel Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: This glossy Alistair MacLean action programmer concerns the machinations involved in smuggling an Eastern European scientist out of France and into the United States while being pursued by gang of international pirates, who want the scientist for themselves so that they can grab the secrets that Read More

1974
Frightmare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This ghoulishly fun Grand Guignol horror piece from director Pete Walker features a tour-de-force performance by Sheila Keith as Dorothy Yates, who was committed to a mental hospital in 1957 for a series of cannibal-killings along with her devoted husband Edmund (Rupert Davies). They are judged Read More

1974
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hurt, John McEnery, Raymond Platt, Rosalind Ayres, David Warner

Synopsis: Little Malcolm is playwright David Halliwell's brilliantly vicious attack on the hollowness of the 1960s protest movement. Booted out of art school, misfit John Hurt uses his anger to organize a radical anti-establishment organization with two fellow malcontents. What seems at first attractive and Read More

1974
Road Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Two truckers struggle to stay financially afloat in economic hard times in his downbeat highway drama. But to do so, they must battle the cops and the major conglomerates that threaten to overtake them. While driving they pick up a prostitute who offers her services in exchange for a lift to New Read More

1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at the expense of his own happiness. Duddy Kravitz (Dreyfuss) is an 18-year-old Jewish kid from Montreal whose mother is dead, and whose father drives a cab and does a little Read More

1974
The Blockhouse

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of wildly varying nationalities and walks of life are trapped in the blockhouse-and remain so for over six years. Though their prison is well stocked with food and beverages Read More

1973
The Love Ban

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Few theatre marquees could accommodate the title It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World, so most British exhibitors chose the film's alternate title, The Love Ban. Based on a potty-mouthed stage play by Kevin Laffan, this comedy concerns the tribulations of a devoutly Catholic couple, played by Nanette Newman Read More

1973
King, Queen, Knave

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf, Carl Fox-Duering

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida Read More

1972
Strohfeuer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Margarethe von Trotta

Synopsis: Margarethe Von Trotta, who later became a well-known film director herself, stars in this film which is directed by her husband Volker Schlondorff. It tells the story of a woman whose divorce has just been finalized. At first, she is joyful and feels very free, but gradually the realities of Read More

1972
X, Y and Zee

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing

Synopsis: More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife lashing out in order to salvage a faltering marriage. An upper-crust couple living the high-life in post-'60s London, Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) and Robert (Michael Caine) Blakely's Read More

1972
Sitting Target

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: In between gigs writing two of the first films from director John Boorman and the sequel to The French Connection (1971), writer Alexander Jacobs adapted this bloody, violent drama from a pulp crime novel. Oliver Reed stars as Harry Lomart, a dangerous convict who's been planning a breakout with a Read More

1972
A Severed Head

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm, Claire Bloom, Jennie Linden

Synopsis: This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with J.B. Priestley). Ian Holm, is hapless wine-taster Martin Lynch-Gibbon who has both a mistress (Jennie Linden) and a nymphomaniac wife, Antonia Lynch-Gibbon (Lee Remick). Read More

1971
Raging Moon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Carter, Emma Forbes, Nelly Hanham, Theresa Watson, Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim

Synopsis: Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful young athlete and aspiring writer whose injuries get the better of him on the evening of his colorless brother's wedding. He loses the use of his legs and is sent to a home for Read More

1971
The Devil's Widow

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Hinwood, Oliver Norman

Synopsis: In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers who surround her. The story is also known as The Devil's Widow and The Ballad of Tam-Lin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Take a Girl Like You

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Noel Harrison, Oliver Reed, Hayley Mills, Sheila Hancock, John Bird

Synopsis: This 1970 British sex farce stars Hayley Mills as Jenny Bunn, a naïve young schoolteacher from the north of England who comes to swinging London to teach. She moves into a suburb and becomes friends with Anna (Geraldine Sherman). Anna is dating Patrick Standish (Oliver Reed), but when Anna Read More

1970
The Walking Stick

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Winston Graham, The Walking Stick stars Samantha Eggar as Deborah, a polio-stricken woman courted by charming artist Leigh Hartley (David Hemmings). She moves in with Leigh, who immediately suggests that she help him rob the antique store where she works. Her common sense Read More

1970
Underground

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Goulet, Daniele Gaubert, Lawrence Dobkin, Carl Duering, Joachim Hansen

Synopsis: Singer Robert Goulet had already spent a season (1966-67) as a TV secret agent on Blue Light when he signed for the theatrical espionager Underground. Goulet plays an American spy who is disgraced during World War II for divulging the names of his fellow agents while under torture. To redeem Read More

1970
Tropic of Cancer

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rip Torn, James Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Bauer, Laurence Ligneres

Synopsis: Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were Read More

1970
Otley

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence pedlar and document smuggler. He trails double agents and double martinis at a posh cocktail party before discovering the villains have the cooperation of top government Read More

1969
The Night of the Following Day

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) grab the gorgeous girl (Pamela Franklin) at the airport in Paris. The limousine is driven down a deserted country road where the airplane's stewardess Vi (Rita Moreno) Read More

1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Esther Anderson, Hal Frederick, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: A black Jamaican lawyer shares an apartment with a liberal white man in Two Gentlemen Sharing. Andrew (Hal Frederick), the lawyer, longs to become part of London's middle class while Roddy (Robin Phillips) is the waspish advertising executive who wishes to escape the problems caused by his Read More

1969
Michael Kohlhaas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Warner, Anna Karina, Inigo Jackson

Synopsis: Michael (David Warner) is an independent businessman and a happily married man with two children. Traveling to the market one day, he is victimized by a nobleman who demands compensation for crossing his land. Michael leaves two horses and a caretaker on the noble's land after he has paid for Read More

1969
Age of Consent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glyn, Antonia Katsaros

Synopsis: James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York City. Disgusted with life in the big city, Bradley decides to return to his roots and heads back home to Australia. Once there, he decides to become a Gauguin primitive and Read More

1969
No Way to Treat a Lady

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a serial killer who has been preying on lonely middle-aged ladies. Each of the bodies is discovered with a lipstick kiss drawn on the forehead. We know (but Brummell doesn't) that the murderer is Christopher Gill (Rod Read More

1968
Ulysses

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Martin Dempsey

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a student/poet in Dublin. Focusing more upon the characters' thoughts and fantasies than upon their actions, it features some of Joyce's previously banned prose. This drama was Read More

1967
Separation

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jane Arden

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman begins having a nervous breakdown after her marriage falls apart. Through her visions, real and imaginary scenes involving her husband are presented. She is also seen with her new lover and her psychiatrist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Kaleidoscope

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter, Murray Melvin

Synopsis: A cardsharp comes up with the ultimate system for beating the casinos at their own game in this high-style caper comedy. Barney Lincoln (Warren Beatty) is a footloose playboy with a taste for gambling and an ingenious scheme for winning at the leading casinos in Europe. Barney discovers that Read More

1966

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