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Frank Cordell is a Actor and Sound British born on 1 june 1918

Frank Cordell

Frank Cordell
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 june 1918
Death 6 july 1980 (at 62 years)

Frank Cordell est un compositeur, arrangeur et chef d'orchestre anglais, né le 1er juin 1918 à Kingston upon Thames (Grand Londres), mort le 6 juillet 1980 à Hastings (Sussex de l'Est).

Biography

Compositeur, arrangeur et chef d'orchestre à la BBC entre 1947 et 1955, Frank Cordell écrit notamment une musique pour la pièce radiophonique The Gay Galliard de Margaret Irwin (1951, avec Valerie Hobson et John Laurie).

Puis, de 1955 à 1962, il est directeur musical au sein d'HMV Records qui publie des disques microsillon où il dirige son propre orchestre — sous l'appellation « Frank Cordell and His Orchestra » —, en particulier dans un répertoire d'arrangements qu'il réalise (ex. : Fascinating Rhythm, The Man I Love et Summertime de George Gershwin).

Enfin et à partir de 1962, désormais indépendant, il se consacre principalement à la composition.

Au cinéma, on lui doit des partitions pour deux documentaires et quatre courts métrages (dont First on the Road de Joseph Losey en 1959). Mais surtout, il écrit les musiques de quatorze longs métrages (majoritairement britanniques), le premier étant The Voice of Merrill de John Gilling (1952, avec Valerie Hobson et James Robertson Justice).

Citons également Khartoum de Basil Dearden (1966, avec Charlton Heston et Laurence Olivier), Opération V2 de Boris Sagal (1969, avec David McCallum et Charles Gray) et Cromwell de Ken Hughes (1970, avec Richard Harris dans le rôle-titre et Alec Guinness). Sa dernière musique de film est pour Meurtres sous contrôle de Larry Cohen (film américain, 1976, avec Tony Lo Bianco et Deborah Raffin).

Il signe aussi une partition originale pour 2001, l'Odyssée de l'espace de Stanley Kubrick (1968) qui ne sera pas retenue par le réalisateur (pas plus que celle de son confrère Alex North).

Le film historique Cromwell pré-cité lui vaut une nomination au Golden Globe de la meilleure musique de film et une autre à l'Oscar de la meilleure musique de film.

À la télévision, entre 1961 et 1971, Frank Cordell écrit des musiques pour deux séries documentaires, un téléfilm et deux séries de fiction (dont quatorze épisodes de Court Martial , 1965-1966).

En dehors de l'écran, il compose entre autres des pièces de musique légère (dont Big Ben Waltz et Rhapsody in Red), un concerto pour violoncelle, un concerto pour cor, ou encore Gestures et Patterns, pour quatuor de saxophones.

Best films

Cromwell (1970)
(Original Music Composer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Frank Cordell (18 films)

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Actor

The Tin Star, 1h33
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Betsy Palmer, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Farnsworth
Roles un homme participant au posse
Rating72% 3.6458753.6458753.6458753.6458753.645875
Universally disdained, bounty hunter Morgan Hickman (Henry Fonda) arrives in a small town with a dead outlaw in tow. While the town's population openly abhors Hickman, young sheriff Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) admires the man for taking everything in stride and knowing how to handle dangerous situations. When Owens learns Hickman was once a sheriff himself, he persuades Hickman to teach him the ways of a lawman, forcing Hickman to face his past and lost virtues.
High Lonesome, 1h21
Directed by Alan Le May
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer, Kristine Miller, Jack Elam, Frank Cordell
Roles Frank
Rating53% 2.6653252.6653252.6653252.6653252.665325
A young drifter is found stealing food at Horse Davis' ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse's daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse.
The Sundowners, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs, John Litel, Jack Elam
Roles Jim Strake
Rating56% 2.805082.805082.805082.805082.80508
A rash of cattle rustling leads to a range war, centered around the disputed grazing rights to a fertile canyon. Hostilities escalate with the arrival of a gunman, who disrupts both sides in the conflict.
The Texas Rangers, 1h33
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan, Frank Shannon, Edward Ellis
Roles Ranger Ditson
Rating65% 3.293763.293763.293763.293763.29376
Trois bandits, longtemps amis, Jim Hawkins, Henry B. Wahoo Jones et Sam McGee en viennent à se séparer. Les deux premiers, après quelque temps d'incarcération, décident de rejoindre les rangs des Texas Rangers. Le troisième continue sa vie de rapine. Hawkins tombe sous le charme d'Amanda Bailey. Lorsque Wahoo Jones se promet d'arrêter son ancien complice McGee, il ne se doute pas qu'il va trouver la mort. Dès lors, entre les deux survivants, la haine devient farouche…

Sound

Trial by Combat, 1h28
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors John Mills, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Hershey, David Birney, Margaret Leighton, Peter Cushing
Roles Music
Rating52% 2.622612.622612.622612.622612.62261
An British organization known as the Knights of Avalon is discontent that so many criminals can evade the law. So they decide to, secretly hunt down these criminals, and battle and execute them with medieval weapons.
God Told Me To, 1h30
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Sam Levene, Robert Drivas
Roles Conductor
Rating62% 3.145063.145063.145063.145063.14506
In New York City, a sniper perched on a water tower opens fire on the crowded streets below, killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco), a Catholic NYPD detective, arrives at the scene and approaches the sniper as police officers surround the building. Before jumping to his death, the sniper, Harold Gorman, tells Nicholas that God had told him to commit the murders. A traumatized Nicholas is left to wonder how Gorman could have aimed accurately at his distance with a mail order rifle.
Hell Boats
Hell Boats (1970)
, 1h35
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ronald Allen, Drewe Henley, Philip Madoc, Seán Barrett
Rating55% 2.791342.791342.791342.791342.79134
In 1941 Lieutenant Commander Jeffords, an American serving with the Royal Navy is assigned to Valletta, Malta to command a flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats for a top secret mission. Jeffords is granted permission to take his friend Chief Petty Officer Yacov, an Israeli/Palestinian with him.
Cromwell
Cromwell (1970)
, 2h19
Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Nigel Stock, Geoffrey Keen, Dorothy Tutin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69% 3.496653.496653.496653.496653.49665
Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Popish" and "Romish" rituals into the Church of England have become increasingly grating to many, including Cromwell. In fact Charles regards himself as a devout Anglican, permitting his French Queen to practise Roman Catholicism in private but forbidding her to bring up the young Prince of Wales in that faith. Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World, but, on the eve of their departure, he is persuaded by his friends to stay and resume a role in politics.
Ring of Bright Water, 1h47
Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals
Actors Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Roddy McMillan, Christopher Benjamin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70% 3.538673.538673.538673.538673.53867
Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) in the window, eventually buying and naming the animal Mij. The otter wreaks havoc in his small apartment and together they leave London for a rustic cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers and make the acquaintance of Dr. Mary (Virginia McKenna) from the nearby village, and her dog Johnny. Mij and Johnny play in the water and bound across the fields together.
Mosquito Squadron, 1h30
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors David McCallum, David Buck, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Urquhart
Roles Conductor
Rating56% 2.849112.849112.849112.849112.84911
It is the Second World War and the Royal Air Force attacks German V-1 flying bomb installations during the early summer of 1944. The de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft of Squadron Leader David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bombing raid on a V-1 launching site, and Scott and his navigator/bomb-aimer are reportedly killed. His wingman and friend, then-Flight Lieutenant (later insignia Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader) Quint Munroe (David McCallum) comforts Scott's wife Beth (Suzanne Neve) and a romance soon develops, rekindling one that they had had years earlier.
Khartoum
Khartoum (1966)
, 2h14
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Michael Hordern
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67% 3.395663.395663.395663.395663.39566
In 1883, in the Sudan, a force of 10,000 poorly trained Egyptians under the command of British Col. William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown) is lured into the desert and slaughtered by Muslim zealots led by Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), a fanatic Sudanese Arab who believes he is the Mahdi, the prophesied "expected one of Mohammed." The British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (Ralph Richardson), who does not wish to send more military forces to Khartoum, is under great pressure to send military hero Major General Charles George Gordon (Charlton Heston) there to salvage the situation and restore British prestige. Gordon has strong ties to Sudan, having broken the slave trade there in the past, but Gladstone distrusts him. Gordon has a reputation for strong, if eccentric, religious beliefs and following his own judgement, regardless of his orders. Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the British foreign secretary (Michael Hordern), knowing this, tells Gladstone that by sending Gordon to Khartoum, the British government can ignore all public pressure to send an army there, and absolve themselves of any responsibility over the area if Gordon ignores his orders. Gladstone is mildly shocked at the suggestion, but as it is popular with the public and Queen Victoria, he adopts it for the sake of expediency.
The Bargee
The Bargee (1964)
, 1h46
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Julia Foster, Miriam Karlin
Rating62% 3.100943.100943.100943.100943.10094
Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett) and his cousin Ronnie (Ronnie Barker) are two boatmen operating a canal-boat and its butty for British Waterways. Though the canals are struggling due to declining traffic, Hemel refuses to leave the canals and is protective of his traditional lifestyle. He also has a reputation as a Don Juan, with girlfriends all across the canal network, something which Ronnie, always unlucky in love, is envious of.
Flight from Ashiya, 1h38
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker, Shirley Knight, Danièle Gaubert
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53% 2.6571652.6571652.6571652.6571652.657165
The movie centers on three flight crew members of a USAF Air Rescue Service HU-16 Albatross and various experiences in their collective pasts, told in flashback. Some have considered the flashbacks as tedious and boring, but the aircraft sequences are generally considered quite good, especially for fans of the Grumman Albatross. Richard Widmark plays Colonel Stevenson (the pilot in command); Yul Brynner portrays Master Sergeant Mike Takashima (the Pararescue specialist) and George Chakiris portrays the co-pilot, Lieutenant Gregg.
Never Put It in Writing, 1h33
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Pat Boone, Milo O'Shea, Reginald Beckwith, Harry Brogan, John Le Mesurier, Polly Adams
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating66% 3.30483.30483.30483.30483.3048
Stephen Cole est un jeune irlandais avec du caractère, qui pense qu'il mérite une promotion de son employeur. Il soupçonne son patron de népotisme. Stephen envoie une lettre caustique à la société, mais entre temps il reçoit la promotion qu'il attendait encore. Il doit comme un fou courir derrière cette lettre afin de l'intercepter.
The Rebel
The Rebel (1961)
, 1h45
Directed by Robert Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Peinture
Actors Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Dennis Price, Oliver Reed, John Le Mesurier, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Music
Rating68% 3.4024753.4024753.4024753.4024753.402475
Hancock plays a downtrodden London office clerk who gives up his office job to pursue full-time his vocation as an artist. Single mindedly, and with an enthusiasm far exceeding any artistic talent (his 'art' has a 'childlike' quality - to put it mildly), he sets to work on his masterpiece Aphrodite at the Waterhole, moving to Paris where he expects his genius will be appreciated. While his 'ideas' and persona gain acceptance (indeed plaudits) among the "beat" set, legitimate art critics, like Sir Charles Broward (George Sanders), scoff at his work. He manages to achieve success, however, when the work of his former roommate, a genuinely talented painter, becomes confused with his own. The confusion is eventually resolved after a series of art exhibitions, and he returns, down but not out, to London, where he pursues his 'art' in defiance of whatever others may think of it.