Albert Elms
Biography
Albert Elms (28 February 1920 – 14 October 2009) was an English composer and arranger who worked mainly for television and film. Albert Elms was born in Newington, Kent, England, and died in Southampton. His love of music drove him to join the Royal Marine Band Service in Deal at the age of 14 in 1934. His wartime service included participation in the Vaagso raid in 1940 and serving on the Malta Convoys from 1941 to 1942. After Albert left the Royal Marines he joined Francis, Day and Hunter, a music publishing company as an arranger. His break into television came with the launch of commercial television in Britain during 1955. He was amongst a number of young British composers who made significant contributions to the early days of commercial television in series like ITV's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–59) with Richard Greene in the lead, in which he wrote then musical scores for at least the last two series. He also wrote musical scores for The Buccaneers (1956–57), starring Robert Shaw, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–57), starring William Russell, and Ivanhoe (1958–59) with Roger Moore. However, he is best known for providing the incidental music for the later ITC series A Man in a Suitcase (1967–68), The Champions (1968–69) and for 14 of the 17 episodes of The Prisoner (1967–68) starring Patrick McGoohan. Although the series on which Albert did most of his important work had memorable main title scores by others like Ron Grainer and Tony Hatch, he provided cues which represent hundreds of hours of music. His contribution has recently been recognised with the release on CD of his incidental music for Man in a Suitcase. He also wrote complete film scores for movies such as Satellite in the Sky (1956), The Man Without a Body (1957), On the Run (1958), Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960), The Breaking Point (1961), The Omegans (1968), and the film version of Love Thy Neighbour (1973). He was also musical director on the Dave Allen Show and The Benny Hil
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
47 releases · 11 albums · active 1975–2024
- Performance · 244
- Other credits · 10
Studios: De Montfort Hall · I.B.C. Studios · Digital Outland · St Teilo's Church
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Band Of H.M. Royal Marines
- The Royal Marines
- The Bands Of The Royal Air Force
- The Ron Grainer Orchestra