Leighton Lucas(1903-1982)

Leighton Lucas was born on 5 January 1903 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Stage Fright (1950), The Dam Busters (1955) and Ice Cold in Alex (1958). He died on 1 November 1982 in London, England, UK.

Known for

7.0

7.4

7.7

4.8

Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
6.5
Video
- music
- 2004
I Like Money
6.1
- conductor
- 1961
The Millionairess
5.4
- conductor
- 1960
Serious Charge
6.4
- conductor
- 1959
The Son of Robin Hood
4.8
- conductor
- 1958
Ice Cold in Alex
7.7
- conductor
- 1958
The Mark of the Hawk
5.3
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1957
A King in New York
7.0
- conductor
- 1957
Battle Hell
6.8
- music director
- 1957
Rheingold Theatre
8.0
TV Series
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1955
His Majesty O'Keefe
6.1
- composer: additional music - alternate score - UK release (uncredited)
- 1954
This Is York
7.3
Short
- conductor
- 1953
1066 and All That
TV Movie
- musical director
- 1952
The Third Visitor
6.5
- musical director
- 1951
Portrait of Clare
6.5
- music arranger
- 1950

SpongeBob SquarePants
8.2
TV Series
- writer: "Of Love and Destiny" (uncredited)
- 2002–2005
It Happened Here
6.7
- arranger: "Symphony No. 9" (uncredited)
- 1964
Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner
3.9
- music: "Dance of the Fairy Children" (uncredited)
- 1961
Simon and Laura
6.4
- arranger: "Tritsch Tratsch Polka" (uncredited)
- 1955
John and Julie
6.6
- arranger: "The British Grenadiers" (uncredited)
- 1955
Profile
5.4
- arranger: "Symphony No.102", "Symphony No.4" (uncredited)
- 1954
Edge of Divorce
6.1
- music: "Captain" (uncredited)
- 1953
The Third Visitor
6.5
- arranger: "Symphony No.9"
- music: "Badinage"
- 1951
Stage Fright
7.0
- music: "Eve's Rhapsody" (1950) (uncredited)
- 1950
Adventure for Two
6.2
- arranger: "Volga Boat Song" (uncredited)
- 1943

Born
- January 5, 1903
- London, England, UK
Died
- November 1, 1982
- London, England, UK(undisclosed)
Other works
He composed music for Clifford Mills, John Ramsay, and Roger Quilter's play, "Where the Rainbow Ends," performed as a ballet at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England with Alicia Markova (Spirit of the lake), Anton Dolin (St. George), Claude Hulbert and Winifred Shotter in the cast. Anton Dolin was also director.

Trivia
Former ballet dancer (with Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, 1918-1921), turned composer and conductor by the age of nineteen. He composed overtures, cantatas, ballets and film music and later became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. After wartime service in the RAF, he formed his own orchestra to give concerts on the BBC.