Biography
François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. Born on 3 April 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, he died on 21 November 1975 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, in a diving accident. He received no formal music education but taught himself jazz from age 15, learning trombone as an autodidact. His father, filmmaker Paul de Roubaix, encouraged him to compose scores for educational films. His first film score was for a 1961 short by Robert Enrico.
De Roubaix scored numerous films in the 1960s and 1970s, including Le Samouraï (1967) for Jean-Pierre Melville and Daughters of Darkness (1971). Other notable scores include The Wise Guys (1965), The Last Adventure (1967), Farewell, Friend (1968), The One Man Band (1970), Last Known Address (1970), The Pariah (1972) and The Old Gun (1975). He worked frequently with directors Robert Enrico and José Giovanni, and also scored under the pseudonym Cisco El Rubio. His score for The Old Gun received a posthumous César Award in 1976.
