Malcolm Lockyer
Malcolm Neville Lockyer (5 October 1923 – 28 June 1976) was a British film composer and conductor.[1]
Biography
Lockyer was born in Greenwich, London, England.[1] In his early years he developed an interest in dance and from here gathered an interest in music. At the age of nineteen he became a musician in the Royal Air Force and in 1944 joined the Buddy Featherstonhaugh Sextet.[1] His biggest successes in composition were for the BBC series' Friends and Neighbours (1954) and The Pursuers (1961) for which he wrote the themes.[1]
He scored several films for
One of the highlights of Lockyer's career was arranging and conducting the Bing Crosby album Holiday in Europe (1961), described as "one of the all-time Crosby classics" by the jazz critic Will Friedwald in his liner notes to the CD Bing Crosby: Legends of the 20th Century, which includes seven tracks from the album.
Lockyer conducted frequently throughout the 1960s. Among the many orchestras he led were those for: the BBC Radio Home Service's radio musical version of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1962). He was conductor of the BBC Revue Orchestra and subsequently the principal conductor of the new BBC Radio Orchestra[1] and the BBC Big Band[2] when both ensembles were formed in 1967.
Lockyer was the musical director for the 1972
Shortly before his death in 1976, he conducted The Million Airs Orchestra in 26 Glenn Miller tribute concerts.[1]
Selected filmography
- Strictly Confidential (1959)
- Operation Cupid (1960)
- Sandy the Seal (shot in 1965, released in 1969)
- Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
- Ten Little Indians (1965)
- The Pleasure Girls (1965)
- Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)
- Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966)
- Island of Terror (1966)
- The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
- Five Golden Dragons (1967)
- Deadlier than the Male(1967)
- Night of the Big Heat (1967)
- The Long Day's Dying (1968)
- Eve (1968)
References
- ^ ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ^ "BBC Radio Orchestra - IPS-Compendium". Ibs.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3
External links
- Malcolm Lockyer at IMDb
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