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John Addison is a British composer who has composed music for over 50 films and television shows. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the 1967 film "Torn Curtain". Addison was born in Chobham, Surrey, England, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He began his career as a composer for the BBC in the 1950s, and went on to compose music for films such as "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968), and "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974). Addison has won numerous awards for his work, including an Academy Award for Best Original Score for "Torn Curtain" (1967), a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968). John Addison's net worth is estimated to be around $10 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as a composer.

Popular As John Mervyn Addison
Occupation music_department,composer,soundtrack
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 16 March 1920
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Chobham, Surrey, England
Date of death December 7, 1998
Died Place Bennington, Vermont, U.S.
Nationality United Kingdom

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1970

In the late 1970s, Addison moved to the United States and focused a good deal of his work on television productions, most famously creating the popular theme music to the TV series Murder She Wrote.

1950

In the 1950's, in addition to his film work, he orchestrated and composed incidental music for leading English playwrights (including John Osborne) at the Royal Court Theatre. He also scored Olivier's staging of "Hamlet" at the National Theatre.

1944

He was a soldier in XXX Corps, the British tank force that drove north through Holland during "Operation Market Garden", commencing Sept. 17, 1944. He wrote the music-score for A Bridge Too Far (1977), which depicted "Operation Market Garden", as a tribute to his fellow tankers of XXX Corps.

1942

Although his first music for a film came in 1942 for Roy Boulting's Thunder Rock, his score was not used, and it was 1950 before he truly entered his principal profession, that of film composer. He scored numerous prominent films, among them Seven Days to Noon, Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and Tom Jones, for which he won an Academy Award. He received another Oscar nomination for his score to Sleuth, and a BAFTA nomination for his music for A Bridge Too Far, coincidentally the story of a World War II battle in which he himself had participated.

1922

With the opening of the Second World War, however, he was diverted back to the military and spent the war in a tank unit of the 22nd Hussars, being wounded in Normandy and rising to the rank of captain. After the war, he returned to the Royal College of Music, specializing in composition, clarinet, and oboe. By age 30, he had been made a professor of composition. He had previously won the RCM's Sullivan Award for Composition and was soon deluged with commissions for new compositions. He produced a wide variety of concerti, chamber pieces, and ballets.

1920

British composer, primarily of film scores. From a military family and the son of a Royal Field Artillery colonel, John Mervyn Addison was born March 16, 1920, in Chobham, Surrey, and attended Wellington College, Berkshire, with plans for a military career. His interest and talent for music intervened, and he left Wellington for the Royal College of Music.