---
name: "Walter Goehr"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-goehr"
fi1m_id: "walter-goehr"
imdb_id: "nm0324374"
tmdb_id: 929904
wikidata_id: "Q213925"
roles: ["Conductor"]
born: "28 May 1903"
died: "4 December 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T03:46:10.644230+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."
---

# Walter Goehr

## Identity

Walter Goehr

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/walter-goehr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** walter-goehr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0324374
- **TMDB ID:** 929904
- **Wikidata ID:** Q213925
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Goehr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213925, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324374/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/929904

Conductor. Born 28 May 1903 in Berlin. Died 4 December 1960.

## Details

- **Work:** Conductor
- **Born:** 28 May 1903, Berlin
- **Died:** 4 December 1960
- **Active:** 1945–1946
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Comedy 2, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Goehr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213925, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324374/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/929904

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84)

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## Biography

Walter Goehr (1903–1960) was a German-born composer and conductor. Born in Berlin, he studied with Arnold Schoenberg and worked as a conductor for Berlin Radio before emigrating to Britain in 1933 as a result of his Jewish heritage. He later became a British resident and taught at Morley College.

Goehr composed the score for David Lean’s *Great Expectations* (1946). He also conducted the music for several films directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, including *I Know Where I’m Going!* (1945) and *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946). From 1945 to 1948 he was music director of the BBC Theatre Orchestra. He conducted premieres of works by Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, and was the father of composer Alexander Goehr. He died in Sheffield after conducting a performance of Handel’s *Messiah*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, britishmusicsociety.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946), Fi1m 92, Conductor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-matter-of-life-and-death.md)
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Conductor, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *I Know Where I'm Going!* (1945), Fi1m 88, Conductor — [page](https://film.one/film/i-know-where-im-going.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Betrayed* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *I'll Get You for This* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *I Went Back* (1950), Music
- *Stop Press Girl* (1949), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Original Music Composer, Conductor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946), Conductor — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/a-matter-of-life-and-death.md)
- *I Know Where I'm Going!* (1945), Conductor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/i-know-where-im-going.md)
- *The Ghost Train* (1941), Music
- *What a Man!* (1939), Music
- *The Amateur Gentleman* (1936), Music
- *Princess Tam Tam* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *David Golder* (1931), Original Music Composer

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