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Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of film and television scores, who has worked primarily in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his scoring work during the 1980s and 1990s, where he worked on many acclaimed films including Excalibur, Runaway Train, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans and In the Name of the Father. Jones has collaborated with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, Alan Parker, Jim Sheridan, Barbet Schroeder and Michael Mann. Jones has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards for Best Film Music - for Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and Brassed Off. He has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards - Best Original Score and Best Original Song, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special for the miniseries Merlin. Jones has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in Britain since 2006. In 1999, he became the first chair of the music department of the National Film and Television School. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trevor Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A biographical series about actor William Henry Pratt, known to the world as Boris Karloff. This story tells about his early life in England and arrival to America to explore his career in acting. In old Hollywood, Karloff starred in minor roles of many silent pictures before being cast as the iconic monster in 1931's Frankenstein. Because of his outstanding performance, Karloff became a superstar, later starring in more horror movies, dramas, and theater shows. Throughout his successful career, Karloff struggled with his cultural status, as well as his personal health issues and family matters. Nevertheless, Karloff remains one of the most classy and well-respected actors in film history.
