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name: "Richard Addinsell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-addinsell"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "13 January 1904"
died: "15 November 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:03:11.467406+00:00"
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# Richard Addinsell

Composer. Born 13 January 1904 in London. Died 15 November 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 13 January 1904, London
- **Died:** 15 November 1977
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Addinsell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005941/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37467

## Biography

Richard Addinsell (1904–1977) was an English composer best known for his film scores. Born in London, he briefly studied law at Hertford College, Oxford, before pursuing music at the Royal College of Music and studying further in Berlin and Vienna.

He began composing for the theatre in the 1920s, collaborating with Clemence Dane, and scored his first film, *The Amateur Gentleman*, in 1936. His work includes the score for *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), the *Warsaw Concerto* from *Dangerous Moonlight* (1941), and music for films such as *Gaslight* (1940), *Blithe Spirit* (1945) and *Under Capricorn* (1949). He also wrote songs and provided accompaniment for Joyce Grenfell's revues and one-woman shows.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, mfiles.co.uk, naxos.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Alice in Wonderland* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Life at the Top* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Macbeth* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *The War Lover* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Waltz of the Toreadors* (1962), Music
- *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Greengage Summer* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *A Tale of Two Cities* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Alice in Wonderland* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Out of the Clouds* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Beau Brummell* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Wuthering Heights* (1953), Music
- *Sea Devils* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Scrooge* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Encore* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Tom Brown's Schooldays* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *Highly Dangerous* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *The Black Rose* (1950), Music
- *Under Capricorn* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Passionate Friends* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *A Diary for Timothy* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Blithe Spirit* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The New Lot* (1943), Music
- *The Siege of Tobruk* (1942), Music
- *The Day Will Dawn* (1942), Music
- *This Is Colour* (1942), Music
- *The Big Blockade* (1942), Original Music Composer
- *This England* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Love on the Dole* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Dangerous Moonlight* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Old Bill and Son* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *The Green Girdle* (1941), Music
- *Gaslight* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *Britain at Bay* (1940), Music
- *Contraband* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Lion Has Wings* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)
- *Vessel of Wrath* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Dark Journey* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Fire Over England* (1937), Music
- *Farewell Again* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *The Amateur Gentleman* (1936), Music
- *His Lordship* (1932), Music

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