Film Scores

Below is a long list of Addison’s film scores, film score suites, theatre and musical productions, followed by television works, in the order of their composition. Click on the + sign for more information, press reviews, programmes and more.

The composer’s scores, sketches, video tapes, audio tapes and related paraphernalia are located at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contact: Ben Harry, Curator of Audiovisual materials and Media Arts History L. Tom Perry Special Collections: +1 (801) 422-4174

Directed by: Roy Boulting
Written by: Roy Boulting, Warren Chetham-Strode, Bernard Miles
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Tony Stubbs
Releasing Company: Pathé Pictures International
Directed by: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Written by: Paul Dehn, James Bernard, Frank Harvey, Roy Boulting
Starring: Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, André Morell, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Written by: Roy Boulting, Frank Harvey
Starring: Liam Redmond, Anthony Bushell, André Morell
Releasing Company: Conqueror Films
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Screenplay by: Jack Whittingham, John Eldridge
Starring: Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: John Eldridge
Written by: Walter Meade, John Dighton, Alfred Shaughnessy
Starring: James Donald, Kenneth More, Jean Lodge
Releasing Company: Slam Dunk Media
Directed by: Harold French
Screenplay by: Leon Gordon, Howard Emmett Rogers
Starring: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Ted Tetzlaff
Written by: Kem Bennett
Starring: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon
Releasing Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Directed by: Christopher Fry
Written by: Christopher Fry
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Queen Elizabeth 2, Prince Philip
Releasing Company: The Rank Organization
Directed by: Ronald Stark
Written by: Ronald Stark
Starring: Chester Wilmot, William Penney, Arthur David Torlesse
Directed by: Carol Reed
Screenplay by: Harry Kurnitz
Starring: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Terence Young
Written by: Richard Mailbaum, Sy Bartlett, Frank Nugent
Starring: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen
Releasing Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: Cyril Frankel
Written by: W.P. Lipscomb, Wolf Mankowitz
Starring: Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri
Releasing Company: Slam Dunk Media
Directed by: Wolf Rilla
Written by: James Forsyth, Geoffrey Orme
Starring: Finlay Currie, Duncan Lamont, Naomi Chance
Releasing Company: Groupe Three Films
Directed by: Terence Young
Written by: Sy Bartlett, Kate O'Brien
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Paul Scofield, Gilbert Roland, Françoise Rosa
Releasing Company: 20th Century Fox
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Written by: Alec Coppel, Bryan Forbes
Starring: Alan Ladd, Peter Cushing, Harry Andrews
Releasing Company: Warwick Films
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Screenplay by: William Rose
Starring: Alex Mackenzie, Paul Douglas
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Gerard Bryant
Written by: Gerard Bryant
Starring: Leo Genn
Releasing Company: Associated British Pathé
Directed by: Ronald Stark
Written by: Ronald Stark
Releasing Company: Esso Film Unit
Directed by: Cyril Frankle
Written by: Ted Willis
Starring: John Mills, Cecil Parker
Releasing Company: Associated British-Pathé
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Written by: Nigel Balchin, Frank Harvey, Roy Boulting
Starring: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch
Releasing Company: British Lion Films
Directed by: John Paddy Carstairs
Written by: Maurice Cowan, Ted Willis, John Paddy Carstairs, Sid Colin
Starring: Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird
Releasing Company: ITV DVD - Granada Ventures
Directed by: José Ferrer
Screenplay by: Bryan Forbes, Richard Maibaum
Starring: José Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Christopher Lee
Releasing Company: 4FV - UCA
Directed by: Michael Truman
Written by: William Rose, Tania Rose
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, June Thorburn
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: John Boulting
Screenplay by: John Boulting, Frank Harvey
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry Thomas
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Written by: Paul Brickhill, Lewis Gilbert, Vernon Harris
Starring: Kenneth More
Releasing Company: Granada Ventures
Directed by: Ken Annakin
Written by: Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris, Jerome K.
Starring: Laurence Harvey, jimmy Edwards, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton
Releasing Company: Network
Directed by: Charles Frend
Written by: T.E.B. Clark
Starring: Alec Guinness
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: John Boulting
Screenplay by: Patrick Campbell
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker
Releasing Company: Cclub
Directed by: Leslie Norman
Written by: Leslie Norman, Neil Paterson
Starring: Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars
Releasing Company: Ealing Studios
Directed by: John Guillermin
Screenplay by: Bryan Forbes
Starring: M.E. Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Written by: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi
Releasing Company: Momentum Pictures
Directed by: Robert Hamer, Cyril Frankel, Hal E. Chester
Screenplay by: Hal E. Chester, Patricia Moyes, Peter Ustinov, Frank Tarloff
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Alastair Sim
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Screenplay by: John Osborne, Nigel Kneale
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Daniel Massey
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Screenplay by: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Starring: Cecil Parker, James Robertson, Justice, Ian Bannen
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by: Jan Englund, Robert Lowell (as Mark Lowell), Stanley Mann
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nicole Maurey
Releasing Company: Sabre Film Production
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Screenplay by: Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson
Starring: Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Dabquah, rita Tushingham
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
Directed by: Michael Truman
Written by: Patrick Campbell, Vivienne Knight
Starring: Dave King, Robert Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price
Releasing Company: Warner-Pathé Distribution
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Written by: Alan Sillitoe
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage, James Bolam, Alec McCowen
Releasing Company: British Film Institute
Directed by: Michael truman
Written by: Patrick Campbell, Vivienne Knight
Starring: Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher
Releasing Company: Odeon Entertainment
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Screenplay by: John Osborne
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, George Devine, David Tomlinson
Releasing Company: Woodfall Film Productions
Addison won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Original Music Score and a Grammy Award from a Motion Picture or Television Show category.
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Directed by: Desmond Davis
Written by: Edna O’Brien
Starring: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Arthur O’Sullivan, Julian Glover
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: John Guillermin
Written by: Robert Holles
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson
Releasing Company: 20th Century Fox
Directed by: Michael Gill
Written by: Yvonne Gilan
Starring: Juliet Harmer, Tom Adams
Directed by: Terence Young
Written by: Marcel Hellman, Richard Hellman
Starring: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer
Releasing Company: Winchester Productions
CD available from: Quartet Records
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Written by: Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood
Starring: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Corner, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud
Releasing Company: Warner Home Video
Directed by: Desmond Davis
Written by: Desmond Davis, Margaret Abrams
Starring: Rupert Davies
Releasing Company: British Lion Film Corporation
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Written by: Elliott Baker
Starring: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O’Neal, Colleen Dewhurst
Releasing Company: Warner Home Video
Directed by: Desmond Davis
Written by: Edna O'Brien, Desmond Davis
Starring: Sarah Miles
Releasing Company: Partisan Productions, The Rank Organisation
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Written by: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
Screenplay by: Brian Moore
Starring: Paul Newmann, Julie Andrews
Releasing Company: Universal Pictures
Directed by: Desmond Davis
Written by: George Melly
Starring: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York
Releasing Company: Anchor Bay
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, Maggie Smith
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
CD available from: Quartet Records
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Written by: Charles Wood, John Osborne
Starring: Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, Alan Dobie, Norman Rossington
Releasing Company: Optimum Releasing
CD available from: Quartet Records
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Written by: James Kennaway
Starring: Peter O’Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig
Releasing Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Directed by: Bud Yorkin
Written by: Lawrence J. Cowen
Starring: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Wells, Victor Spinetti, Ewa Aulin
Releasing Company: Warner Home Video
Directed by: Roy Boulting, Al Viola, Arne Sucksdorff
Written by: Anthony Shaffer
Starring: John Hurt, Hayley Mills
Releasing Company: British Lion Films
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay by: Anthony Shaffer
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Releasing Company: Paramount
Addison was nominated for the Academy Award (Oscar) for this Original Music Score.
Directed by: Guy Green
Written by: Edward Anhalt, John Osborne
Starring: Stacy Keach, Julian Glover, Maurice Denham, Judi Dench, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith, Robert Stephens
Releasing Company: Fremantle Home Entertainment
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Directed by: John Robins
Written by: Chris Allen, David Cumming, Richard Hills
Starring: Bill Fraser, Julian Orchard, Frank Thorton
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Written by: John Oaksey, Tony Richardson
Starring: Scott Anthony
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Don Chaffey
Written by: Rosemary Anne Sisson
Starring: Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith, Michael Craig
Releasing Company: Walt Disney Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: James Goldstone
Written by: Paul Wheeler
Screenplay by: Jeffrey Bloom
Starring: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges, Geoffrey Holder
Releasing Company: Universal Pictures
CD available from: Quartet Records
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Screenplay by: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Nicol Williamson, robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Georgia Brown, Samantha Eggar, Charles Gray, Jeremy Kemp, Joel Grey, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave
Releasing Company: Fremantle Home Entertainment
CD available from: Quartet Records
Composer’s Notes: “For me the score is interesting in that it allows for the use of certain musical forms in their own right. For example, the passacaglia for Sherlock Holmes. This was originally written for the main title but we later decided on another approach. The passacaglia was not used in the score but is included in the album for those who might be interested. For the exciting train chase it occurred to me to use the czardas; for the Viennese settings I was moved to use waltz form; and to play up both the hour and visor in the tennis match between Freud and baron, I decided to employ Spanish dance rhythms - rhythm which I further developed for the sword fight. Despite the fact that the film was not a major box-office success, I greatly enjoyed working on it and I must admit that the score is among the more satisfying of my film compositions.”
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Screenplay by: William Goldman
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Kruger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
CD available from: Quartet Records
Won the BAFTA British Academy Award for Original Film Music.
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Written by: Allan Scott
Screenplay by: Chris Bryant
Starring: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale
Releasing Company: Woodfall Film Productions
Directed by: Cliff Robertson
Written by: Robert P. Davis
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, Frank Converse, Gordon MacRae
Releasing Company: Summit Films
Directed by: Peter Carter
Written by: Richard Guttman, Ian Sutherland
Starring: Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Beverly D'Angelo
Releasing Company: New World Pictures (US)
Directed by: Michael Laughlin
Written by: Bill Condon, Michael Laughlin, Walter Halsey Davis
Starring: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
Written by: A. Martin Zweiback
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte
Releasing Company: MGM Home Entertainment
CD available from: Quartet Records
Directed by: Jonathan Sanger
Written by: Ronald Bass
Starring: Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger, Cyrielle Clair, Eric Stoltz
Releasing Company: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer

Addison was honoured with an award in recognition of his devoted service on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion pictures Arts and Sciences (1979-1988).

Film Music Suites

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Credit Image: Joseph E. Levine & Richard P. Levine

Theatre and Musicals

Directed by: John Cranko
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Directed by: John Osborne
Starring: Laurence Olivier
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Work by John Arden
National Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre
Shakespeare’s work directed by Tony Richardson
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Directed by Tony Richardson at the Queen’s Theatre in London
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The Shakespeare work was produced by George LeMaire and directed by Peter Wood. It was adapted for television by John Barton.
Performed at the National Theatre
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Performed in Nottingham in 1968.
Lyrics written by David Heneker
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Play by: John Mortimer
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Starring: David Warner
Based on I Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves. First staged in July 1972 at the Queen’s Theatre in London.
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Cambridge Theatre Company
Lyrics by David Heneker
Performed at the Globe Theatre, London and at the Arts Theatre Cambridge
Directed by Richard Cottrell
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See orchestral work
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Directed by Tony Richardson
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Written by John Osborne
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Music Composed for TV

BBC TV (Dec. 29) Children’s programme. Played by Melos Ensemble. Producer Naomi Capon.
BBC TV Film.
Producer Margaret Dale.
(Continuous music recorded before shooting)
BBC TV
Theme Only
BBC TV
Theme for a series about instruments of the orchestra
CBS - Special
Director: Martin Carr
ATV - Starring Richard Chamberlain
Director: Peter Wood
Aired in England Aug. 1971
Aired in USA Nov. 17, 1970
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Thames TV - Restoration plays series
Anglia TV
BBC TV Film - starring Rachael Roberts
Director: Desmond Davis
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NBC (Theme only)
NBC Five-Part Mini-Series (Universal)
Universal - Four-hour film from John Jake’s novel
NBC Theme and opening show of Series (Universal)
ABC Three-part Mini-Series (Konigsberg - Sterling Silliphant Productions)
NBC Twelve-part dramatization of Michener’s novel (Universal)
ABC Two-hour movie. Producer - Joanna Lee (20th Century Fox)
ABC
1,5 hour pilot (Spelling-Cramer)
ABC Two-hour movie (Spelling-Cramer)
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Musicians:
Nicholas Kent - Brass Quintet
Adam Stockbridge and Emily Mitchell - Trumpets
Ollie de Carteret - French horn
Nicolas Kent - Trombone
Grady Hassan - Tuba
Price Consort Winds
Lucy Pond - Flute
Henrietta Cooke - Oboe
Lewis Graham - Clarinet
Zoë Tweed - French Horn
Francesca Warren - Bassoon
Oboe: Russel Coates
Flute: Amy Gillen
Organ: Domenico Gioire
Piano: Roelof Temmingh
Harp: Ines Cavalheiro
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