Carl Davis CBE (born October 28, 1936, New York City, United States) is an American conductor and composer who has been living in the UK since 1961.He has made England his home and married an English actress, Jean Boht. He is a conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.He has written music for over 100 television programs but is best known for creating music to accompany films that were originally silent.He has assisted in the orchestration of the symphonic works of Paul McCartney. The television years He achieved early prominence with the title music for some of the acclaimed BBC anthology play series, The Wednesday Play and later for Play for Today. Perhaps his greatest TV score was for the series The World at War (1974). Other programs that are well known include Up Pompeii! (1971), The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (cf Quentin Crisp), Private Schulz (1980), Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981) (cf

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