Roy Douglas

Roy Douglas 

Composer and arranger 

Roy Douglas was born at Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1907. He was self-taught in music. He gained experience writing film scores with Karma (1933) and Dick Turpin (1933). He assisted people such as Mischa Spoliansky on The Ghost Goes West (1935), Arthur Benjamin on Wings of the Morning (1937), Anthony Collins on Sixty Glorious Years (1938), Nicholas Brodzsky on Freedom Radio (aka A Voice in the Night, 1941) and Tomorrow We Live (aka At Dawn We Die, 1943), Noël Coward in In Which We Serve (1942), John Ireland in The Overlanders (1946), and Walter Goehr in Great Expectations (1946)

Other films to which he contributed music or orchestral arrangements  included:Victoria the Great (1937) Major Barbara (1941), The First of the Few (1942), Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944), Night and Day (1945), and Great Expectations.

Roy Douglas died on 23 March 2015, at the age of 107