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David Whitaker (né David Sinclair Whitaker le 6 janvier 1931 à Kingston upon Thames, et mort le 11 janvier 2012 dans l'Oxfordshire) est un compositeur et arrangeur musical britannique.
Compositeur de musiques de film, entre autres pour la compagnie britannique Hammer Film Productions spécialisée dans le cinéma fantastique et d’horreur (Dr Jekyll et Sister Hyde, 1971), ce sont de vrais arrangements symphoniques qu’il livre, se hissant ainsi au niveau de ses confrères orfèvres en la matière, tels Angelo Badalamenti, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini ou Lalo Schifrin. Il se diversifie en composant, plus tard, les musiques des films de Dominik Moll : Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000) et Lemming (2005).
(1982)
(Original Music Composer)
(2000)
(Sound)
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Birth name David Sinclair Whitaker
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 6 january 1931
Death 11 january 2012 (at 81 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 6 january 1931
Death 11 january 2012 (at 81 years)
David Whitaker (né David Sinclair Whitaker le 6 janvier 1931 à Kingston upon Thames, et mort le 11 janvier 2012 dans l'Oxfordshire) est un compositeur et arrangeur musical britannique.
Biography
David Whitaker a réalisé ses premières orchestrations il y a plus de 40 ans. Il travailla pour The Rolling Stones (The Rolling Stones Song Book) dont les arrangements de violons sur le titre The Last Time ont été samplés par The Verve pour leur tube Bittersweet Symphony.Compositeur de musiques de film, entre autres pour la compagnie britannique Hammer Film Productions spécialisée dans le cinéma fantastique et d’horreur (Dr Jekyll et Sister Hyde, 1971), ce sont de vrais arrangements symphoniques qu’il livre, se hissant ainsi au niveau de ses confrères orfèvres en la matière, tels Angelo Badalamenti, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini ou Lalo Schifrin. Il se diversifie en composant, plus tard, les musiques des films de Dominik Moll : Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000) et Lemming (2005).
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Lemming (2005)
, 2h9Directed by Dominik Moll
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, André Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffé
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66%
Alain Getty (Lucas) is a Home Automation Engineer who accepts a job in the south of France and moves there with his wife Bénédicte (Gainsbourg). After three months, his new boss (Dussollier) invites himself and his wife Alice (Rampling) to dinner at Alain's house. They arrive late and create a scene with their marital problems and Alice is then despicably rude to Benedicte. Things go downhill from there, beginning with Alain's discovery of an unconscious rodent lodged in the S-bend of the kitchen sink.
With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
, 1h57Directed by Dominik Moll
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin, Liliane Rovère, Dominique Rozan
Rating70%
Middle-class couple Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) have a chance meeting with Harry (Sergi López), a high school acquaintance of Michel's. Starting with that meeting, Harry, traveling with his girlfriend Plum (Sophie Guillemin), becomes obsessed with Michel and Claire and begins to have a profound and damaging effect on the young couple.
Shadow Run (1998)
, 1h34Directed by Geoffrey Reeve
Genres Thriller
Themes Heist films
Actors Michael Caine, James Fox, Christopher Cazenove, Rae Baker, Kenneth Colley, Leslie Grantham
Rating43%
Haskell (Michael Caine) is a hardened gangster assigned to a job by his boss, Landon-Higgins (James Fox), to steal sheets of watermarked paper to print fake money.
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
, 1h40Directed by Albert Pyun
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Richard Lynch, Richard Moll, Simon MacCorkindale, Anthony De Longis
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating55%
The film opens as King Cromwell (Richard Lynch) and his men land ashore of Tomb Island in search of Xusia of Delos (Richard Moll), a long-dead sorcerer who may be the key to overthrowing his rival King Richard, whose land of Ehdan is the richest in the world. Using one of Xusia's worshipers to awaken him, Cromwell convinces Xusia to join his cause. With the sorcerer's black magic at his command, Cromwell easily lays waste to Richard's formidable army.
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating54%
Greedy David Ballard (Cliff Robertson) wants to get the money of his wife Dominique (Jean Simmons), so he attempts to drive her insane. He succeeds and she hangs herself, only to come back to haunt him from the afterlife.
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Anderson, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating54%
Dominique Balard se suicide. Son mari David, qui cherchait à s'approprier sa fortune de son vivant, est peu à peu assailli par des visions de sa défunte épouse.
The Playbirds (1978)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Alan Lake, Mary Millington, Glynn Edwards, Kenny Lynch, Windsor Davies, Derren Nesbitt
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating43%
Deux inspecteurs sont entrainés dans le milieu de la pornographie alors qu'ils enquêtent sur des meurtres de playmates...
Vampira (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors David Niven, Teresa Graves, Jennie Linden, Veronica Carlson, Nicky Henson, Linda Hayden
Roles Conductor
Rating44%
Count Dracula is an old vampire who, because of his advanced age, is forced to host tours of his castle to get new victims. In an attempt to revive his long-lost love, Vampira, Dracula sets out to collect blood from the bevy of Playboy Playmates living at his castle. However, one of the Playmates whose blood is drained is black, turning the revived Vampira into a black woman.
Mistress Pamela (1974)
, 1h31Directed by Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle, Anthony Sharp, Derek Fowlds, Fred Emney
Rating63%
In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.
Vampire Circus (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Young, Robert Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Circus films, Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Vampires in film, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Lynne Frederick, Adrienne Corri, Anthony Higgins, John Moulder-Brown, Domini Blythe, Lalla Ward
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
One evening near the small Austrian village of Stetl, early in the nineteenth century, schoolmaster Albert Müller witnesses his lovely wife Anna taking a little girl, Jenny Schilt, into the castle of Count Mitterhaus, a reclusive nobleman rumored to be a vampire responsible for the disappearances of other children. The rumors prove true, as Anna, who has become Mitterhaus' willing acolyte and mistress, hands the innocent Jenny over to him to be drained of her blood. Men from the village, led by Müller and including Jenny's father Mr. Schilt and the Burgermeister, invade the castle and attack the Count. After the vampire kills several of them, Müller succeeds in driving a wooden stake through his heart. With his dying breath, Mitterhaus curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life. The angry villagers then drag Anna outside and force her to run the gauntlet, but when her husband intervenes, she runs back into the castle where the briefly revived Count tells her to find his cousin Emil at "the Circus of Night". After laying out his body in the crypt, she escapes through an underground tunnel as the villagers blow the castle up with gunpowder and set fire to it.
Danny Jones (1972)
Genres Drama
Actors Frank Finlay, Jane Carr, Len Jones, Jenny Hanley, Marianne Stone
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Lawman (1971)
, 1h39Directed by Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, John Beck, Sheree North
Roles Conductor
Rating69%
The film starts with a scene common to many Westerns, cowboys in a drunken state shooting up a town and wreaking havoc. The rowdies are from the town of Sabbath and are visiting the town of Bannock for a little recreation that gets out of hand.
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
, 1h37Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Dorothy Alison, Ivor Dean
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating65%
Dr. Henry Jekyll dedicates his life to the curing of all known illnesses, however his lecherous friend, Professor Robertson, remarks that Jekyll's experiments take so long to actually be discovered, he will no doubt be dead by the time he is able to achieve anything. Haunted by this remark, Jekyll abandons his studies and obsessively begins searching for an elixir of life, using female hormones taken from fresh cadavers supplied by murderers Burke and Hare, reasoning that these hormones will help him to extend his life since women traditionally live longer than men and have stronger systems. In the apartment above Jekyll's lives a family: an elderly mother, her daughter Susan Spencer, and Susan's brother Howard. Susan is attracted to Jekyll, and he too returns her affections, but is too obsessed with his work to make advances. Once mixing the female hormones into a serum and drinking it, it not only has the effect of changing Jekyll's character (for the worse) but also of changing his gender, transforming him into a beautiful but evil woman. Susan becomes jealous when she discovers this mysterious woman, but when she confronts Jekyll, to explain the sudden appearance of his female alter ego, he calls her Mrs. Hyde, saying she is his widowed sister who has come to live with him. Howard, on the other hand, develops a lust for Mrs.
Eyewitness (1970)
, 1h35Directed by John Hough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Tony Bonner
Rating61%
Un jeune garçon affabule régulièrement. Quand il est témoin d'un attentat contre un président étranger en visite dans la ville, et qu'il croise le tireur, personne ne le croit. Les tueurs le traquent comme témoin gênant.
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
, 1h34Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Vincent Price, Alfred Marks, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gothard, David Lodge
Roles Music
Rating54%
The movie's structure is fragmented, as it alternates between three distinguishable plot threads.