Stanley Black
Family name: Black
Awards/Honours: OBE 1985
Work area/Craft/Role: Composer
Industry: TV, Film, Radio
Company: BBC
Websites: The Guardian
Interview date(s): 25 September 1997
Interviewer(s): Linda Wood
Production Media: audio
Duration (mins): 41
Stanley Black is remembered for writing numerous scores for radio, television and cinema, including the theme-tune for The Goon Show.
Other films he composed scores for include Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Naked Truth (1957), Blood of the Vampire (1958), Too Many Crooks (1958), The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), West 11 (1963), The System (1964), Crossplot (1969), and the Cliff Richard musicals The Young Ones (1961) and his orchestral backing for Richard's follow up, Summer Holiday (1962), which won him an Ivor Novello Award. His work also became familiar to millions of cinema audiences as a consequence of his theme tune and music library for PathéNews, written in 1960.
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