Biography
David Whitaker was a British composer and conductor. Born in Surrey in 1931, he studied piano, composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He scored numerous films in the 1970s and 1980s, including several for Hammer Films such as Scream and Scream Again (1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) and Vampire Circus (1972). His other credits include Lawman (1971), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and later scores for With a Friend Like Harry... (2000) and Lemming (2005). Whitaker died in Oxfordshire in 2012.
