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name: "James Bernard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-bernard"
fi1m_id: "james-bernard"
imdb_id: "nm0002302"
tmdb_id: 30137
wikidata_id: "Q540969"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "20 September 1925"
died: "12 July 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:50:37.110279+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# James Bernard

## Identity

James Bernard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/james-bernard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** james-bernard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002302
- **TMDB ID:** 30137
- **Wikidata ID:** Q540969
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bernard_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540969, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30137

Composer. Born 20 September 1925 in India. Died 12 July 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 20 September 1925, India
- **Died:** 12 July 2001
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bernard_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540969, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002302/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30137

## Biography

James Bernard was a British film composer best known for his scores for Hammer Film Productions. He composed the music for *The Quatermass Xperiment* (1955), *The Curse of Frankenstein* (1957), *Dracula* (1958) and many subsequent Hammer horror and adventure films, including *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1959), *The Gorgon* (1964), *Dracula: Prince of Darkness* (1966), *The Devil Rides Out* (1968), *Dracula Has Risen from the Grave* (1968), *Taste the Blood of Dracula* (1970) and *Scars of Dracula* (1970).

Educated at Wellington College and the Royal College of Music, Bernard began his film career after collaborating with Paul Dehn on the screenplay for *Seven Days to Noon* (1950), for which they shared an Academy Award for Best Story. He worked extensively with Hammer from the mid-1950s until the 1970s and later composed scores for silent film restorations, including *Nosferatu* (1997).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, allmusic.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dracula* (1958), Fi1m 81, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/dracula-1958.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Making Monsters* (2026), Music
- *Off the Leash* (2026), Music
- *Bloodsuckers* (2000), Music
- *Green Fingers* (2000), Music
- *Universal Horror* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror* (1994), Thanks, Original Music Composer
- *Hammer House of Horror* (1980), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Scars of Dracula* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Taste the Blood of Dracula* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Dracula Has Risen from the Grave* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Devil Rides Out* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Torture Garden* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Frankenstein Created Woman* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Dracula: Prince of Darkness* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *The Plague of the Zombies* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *She* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Gorgon* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The Kiss of the Vampire* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *The Damned* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *The Terror of the Tongs* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Stranglers of Bombay* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1959), Original Music Composer
- *Nor the Moon by Night* (1958), Music
- *Dracula* (1958), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/dracula-1958.md)
- *The Immortal Land* (1958), Music
- *Windom's Way* (1957), Music
- *Across the Bridge* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Quatermass 2* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Curse of Frankenstein* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *X: The Unknown* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Pacific Destiny* (1956), Music
- *The Quatermass Xperiment* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Seven Days to Noon* (1950), Story

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1952: Best Story (won), for *Seven Days to Noon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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