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Cyril J. Mockridge

 
Actor: Cyril Mockridge
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  • Active: '40s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: My Darling Clementine, The Ox-Bow Incident, Bus Stop
  • First Major Screen Credit: Judge Priest (1934)

Biography

British composer and music director Cyril Mockridge received professional training at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Later, in the early '30s, Mockridge went to Hollywood where he scored and arranged the music for dozens of films. Later, he began composing for television. In 1950, he produced the film Mother Didn't Tell Me. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Cyril J. Mockridge
Born August 6, 1896(1896-08-06)
London, England
Died January 18, 1979 (aged 82)
Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupations Film and television composer

Cyril J. Mockridge (August 6, 1896 - January 18, 1979) was an English film and television composer who composed the scores for such films as Grand Canary, Danger - Love at Work, In the Meantime, Darling, Wake Up and Dream, Nightmare Alley, and Road House. Mockridge was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1955 film Guys and Dolls and also composed the music for television's Lost in Space.

Mockridge, who for years was a staff composer for Twentieth Century-Fox, frequently working with Alfred Newman and Alfred's brother Lionel, is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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