Biografía y filmografía

Barry Gray

Although many reference sources inexplicably give Barry Gray's year of birth as 1925, he was in fact born John Livesey Eccles in Blackburn on 18 July 1908. His father John Haworth Eccles was a stationery traveller by profession, but both parents were said to be musically talented, and John Junior went to study at the Royal Manchester College of Music and at Blackburn Cathedral, learning composition from Matyas Seiber. His professional music career began with London publishers B. Feldman & Co. where he arranged scores for variety theatres, and he also worked for Radio Normandy. After war service with the R.A.F. he became a freelance composer and lyricist for radio, records and film music libraries. He joined the Performing Right Society in 1947 under his real name, but later changed it by deed poll to John Livesey Barry Gray. After several years as musical assistant to Eartha Kitt, Hoagy Carmichael and Vera Lynn, in 1956 he began a long and successful association with producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, scoring popular marionation series such as Twizzle, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds. He continued to compose independently, sometimes using the pseudonyms John Livesey, Gene Durant or Martin Jerbourg (a character in Bergerac). Barry Gray himself moved to the Channel Islands in 1970, settling in St Peter-in-the-Wood in Guernsey and with a music studio in St Peter Port, and occasionally guesting as pianist at island venues. He died of heart disease at Guernsey's Princess Elizabeth Hospital on 26 April 1984, age 75. His music continues to find favour with film makers, particularly the ever-popular Thunderbirds March which enjoyed a notable revival in the expensive Thunderbirds remake of 2004.

Fotos

Películas (114)

Thunderbirds 4K Double Bill - Atlantic Inferno / Attack of the Alligators!

2026 · Original Music Composer

Target: Captain Black!

2026 · Original Music Composer

Captain Scarlet Retrometabolised: Captain Scarlet VS The Mysterons

2026 · Music

Captain Scarlet Retrometabolised: Revenge of the Mysterons From Mars

2026 · Music

Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph

2026 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City

2025 · Original Music Composer

Century 21 Revisited

2025 · Music

Stand by for Action!: Gerry Anderson in Concert

2022 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds 55/GOGO

2022 · Music

Fireball XL5: Robots in Distress

2021 · Music

Century 21 Slough

2018 · Music

Thunderbirds 1965: Introducing Thunderbirds

2015 · Music

Thunderbirds 1965: The Abominable Snowman

2015 · Music

Thunderbirds 1965: The Stately Homes Robberies

2015 · Music

This Is Supermarionation

2014 · Original Music Composer

Filmed in Supermarionation

2014 · Music

The Return of Victor Bergman

2010 · Music

Stingray: The Reunion Party

2008 · Original Music Composer

Message from Moonbase Alpha

1999 · Music

The Complete Thunderbirds

1985 · Music

Countdown to Disaster

1982 · Music

Thunderbirds in Outer Space

1981 · Music

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars

1981 · Music

Invaders from the Deep

1981 · Music

The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90

1981 · Music

Thunderbirds to the Rescue

1980 · Music

The Incredible Voyage of Stingray

1980 · Music

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons

1980 · Music

Invasion: UFO

1980 · Music

UFO: Take Them Alive

1972 · Music

UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...

1972 · Music

UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!

1971 · Music

The Secret Service: More Haste, Less Speed

1969 · Original Music Composer

The Secret Service: A Case For The Bishop

1969 · Original Music Composer

Doppelgänger

1969 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbird 6

1968 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Million

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds Are GO

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Ricochet

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Lord Parker's 'Oliday

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Path of Destruction

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Atlantic Inferno

1966 · Original Music Composer

Fahrenheit 451

1966 · Sound Effects

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

1966 · Music

Thunderbirds: Security Hazard

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Martian Invasion

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators!

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: The Duchess Assignment

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Move - And You're Dead

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: Cry Wolf

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: The Man from MI.5

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: The Imposters

1966 · Original Music Composer

Thunderbirds: City of Fire

1966 · Original Music Composer