Louis Levy
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Louis Levy (20 November 1894 – 18 August 1957) was an English film composer and music director, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He was born in London and died in Slough, Berkshire.
As a child Louis Levy played the violin, beginning with a toy violin that his father bought him at the age of seven. He later became the pupil of Guido Papini but due to his parents' limited means, ended his studies with Papini and began a period of self-study. This led to him gaining a scholarship at the London College of Music. Papini refused to allow Levy to study under anyone else, so resumed his tuition, this time free of charge.
He started his career in 1910 arranging and performing music for silent films. In 1916 he became musical director for the New Gallery Cinema in London. In 1921, he went to the Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion as Music Chief and is credited with being the first to develop the theme song in movies.
At the beginning of talkies, he joined the Gaumont British studios at Shepherd’s Bush, where he became the head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards. The rich sounds emanating from his large orchestra are all the more impressive when one realises that electrical sound industry was barely ten years old. He worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films.
He later had a long running BBC radio series Music From the Movies, which started in 1936 and went on until the 1950s.
At this time, through the sheer necessity of having to produce so much music he employed several talented arrangers, among them Peter Yorke ) and Bretton Byrd, who was his chief music editor at Gaumont British.
Películas (131)
No Time for Tears
1957 · Music Director
Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957 · Music
Let's Be Happy
1957 · Music Director
It's Great to be Young!
1956 · Music Director
Now and Forever
1956 · Music Director
Moby Dick
1956 · Conductor
Yield to the Night
1956 · Music Director
The Dam Busters
1955 · Music Director
The Dark Avenger
1955 · Conductor
Duel in the Jungle
1954 · Music Director
Happy Ever After
1954 · Music Director
The Weak and the Wicked
1954 · Music Director
Isn't Life Wonderful!
1953 · Music Director
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953 · Conductor
South of Algiers
1953 · Music Director
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952 · Music Director
Where's Charley?
1952 · Music Director
So Little Time
1952 · Music Director
Young Wives' Tale
1951 · Music Director
Laughter in Paradise
1951 · Music Director
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · Music Director
The Franchise Affair
1951 · Music Director
Portrait of Clare
1950 · Music Director
Murder Without Crime
1950 · Music Director
Stage Fright
1950 · Music Director
Under Capricorn
1949 · Music Director
Obsession
1949 · Conductor
Man on the Run
1949 · Music Director
The Queen of Spades
1949 · Music Director
Caravan
1946 · Music Director
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
1945 · Associate Producer
Love Story
1944 · Music Director
Two Thousand Women
1944 · Music Director
Give Us the Moon
1944 · Music Director
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · Music Director
Time Flies
1944 · Music Director
The Adventures of Tartu
1943 · Music Director
Dear Octopus
1943 · Music Director
The Man in Grey
1943 · Music Director
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942 · Music Director
Uncensored
1942 · Music Director
Back-Room Boy
1942 · Musical
Cottage to Let
1941 · Music
Kipps
1941 · Music Director
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941 · Music
Gasbags
1941 · Original Music Composer
Neutral Port
1940 · Music Director
Night Train to Munich
1940 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Girl in the News
1940 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Busman's Honeymoon
1940 · Music
For Freedom
1940 · Music
An Englishman's Home
1940 · Music Director
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
1939 · Music
Shipyard Sally
1939 · Music
A Girl Must Live
1939 · Music Director
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 · Music Director
Ask a Policeman
1939 · Music Director
The Lambeth Walk
1939 · Music Director
Everything Happens to Me
1938 · Music Director
Old Iron
1938 · Music
Climbing High
1938 · Original Music Composer
The Citadel
1938 · Original Music Composer
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Crackerjack
1938 · Music Director
Alf's Button Afloat
1938 · Music Director
Sailing Along
1938 · Music Director
Bank Holiday
1938 · Music
Non-Stop New York
1937 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
The Gap
1937 · Music
Doctor Syn
1937 · Music Director
Gangway
1937 · Music Director
Command Performance
1937 · Music Director
Young and Innocent
1937 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
O-Kay for Sound
1937 · Conductor
Take My Tip
1937 · Music Director
Sabotage
1936 · Music, Music Director
All In!
1936 · Music Director
Everything Is Thunder
1936 · Original Music Composer
Tudor Rose
1936 · Music Director
East Meets West
1936 · Music Director
Seven Sinners
1936 · Original Music Composer, Music Director
Secret Agent
1936 · Music Director
It's Love Again
1936 · Music
First Offence
1936 · Music Director
Foreign Affaires
1935 · Original Music Composer
Bulldog Jack
1935 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935 · Additional Music, Music Director
Boys Will Be Boys
1935 · Original Music Composer
The 39 Steps
1935 · Original Music Composer, Music Director, Conductor
Heat Wave
1935 · Music Director
Brown on Resolution
1935 · Music
Things Are Looking Up
1935 · Music Director
Oh, Daddy!
1935 · Music Director
Car of Dreams
1935 · Music Director
My Heart Is Calling
1935 · Music Director
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Music Director
Dirty Work
1934 · Music Director
The Iron Duke
1934 · Music Director
Road House
1934 · Music Director
Little Friend
1934 · Music Director
Forbidden Territory
1934 · Original Music Composer
My Old Dutch
1934 · Music Director
It's a Boy
1934 · Music Director
A Cup of Kindness
1934 · Music Director
Man of Aran
1934 · Music Director
Evergreen
1934 · Music Director
Friday the Thirteenth
1933 · Original Music Composer
The Ghoul
1933 · Original Music Composer
Waltz Time
1933 · Writer
Baroud
1933 · Music
The Man from Toronto
1933 · Music
The Midshipmaid
1932 · Music Director
After the Ball
1932 · Music Director
Baroud
1932 · Music Director
Rome Express
1932 · Music Director
Love on Wheels
1932 · Music Director
Jack's the Boy
1932 · Music Director
The Faithful Heart
1932 · Music Director
White Face
1932 · Music Director
Lord Babs
1932 · Music Director
Michael and Mary
1931 · Music Director
No Lady
1931 · Music
The Stronger Sex
1931 · Music
Bed and Breakfast
1930 · Music Director
Symphony in Two Flats
1930 · Music
Just for a Song
1930 · Music Director
High Treason
1929 · Original Music Composer
Balaclava
1928 · Music Director
The Arcadians
1927 · Music Arranger
She
1925 · Music
Madame de Thèbes
1915 · Writer
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