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Composer (Music Score) Born: 1902 in Poland Death: 1973 in England Biography:During the 1940s, which many scholars regard as the heyday of British films, "Allan Gray" was one of the busiest and most visible film composers in England. Ironically, despite his years of association with British films, he was neither English nor was he really "Allan Gray." He was born Joseph Zmigrod in Poland in 1902 and was a student of "Arnold Schoenberg" during the 1920s. He later went to work for producer "Max Reinhardt", writing music for his stage productions, and also composed a children's opera called Wavelength ABC. Gray began his career writing music for motion pictures with the 1933 German feature F.P. 1, but after the rise of the Nazis in the mid-'30s, he was forced to leave Germany, following his scoring of the 1936 version of "Emil and the Detectives". He came to England and took the name "Allan Gray". By the late 1930s, he was established in the British film industry, working at... Full Biography
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