Addison, John Mervyn

Addison, John Mervyn
▪ 1999

      British composer who specialized for more than 40 years in writing effective, lightly orchestrated scores for motion pictures and television programs and incidental music for the theatre. Among Addison's most admired films were Seven Days to Noon (1950), Tom Jones (1963), for which he won an Academy Award, the Oscar-nominated Sleuth (1971), and the Bafta-winning A Bridge Too Far (1977). His television work included the 21-hour miniseries "Centennial" and "Murder, She Wrote," the theme for which earned him an Emmy award (b. March 16, 1920, Cobham, Surrey, Eng.—d. Dec. 7, 1998, Bennington, Vt.).

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