Biography
Stanley Myers (6 October 1930 – 9 November 1993) was an English composer and conductor, who scored over sixty films and television series, working closely with filmmakers Nicolas Roeg, Jerzy Skolimowski and Volker Schlöndorff. He is best known for his guitar piece "Cavatina", composed for the 1970 film The Walking Stick and later used as the theme for The Deer Hunter. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for Wish You Were Here (1987), and was an early collaborator with and mentor of Hans Zimmer. Myers was born in Birmingham, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. he married choreographer Eleanor Fazan.
Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series Doctor Who; the theme to All Gas and Gaiters; and the theme for the BBC's Question Time.One night in 1966, Myers and Barry Fantoni had called into the Chi Chi club to discuss the music for the movie Kaleidoscope which was to star Warren Beatty and Susannah York. What they were after was a switched on song they needed for a switched on intense movie. The resident group called Romeo Z came on and caused the ceiling to shake. There they knew they had the band they wanted, and they got the band to record the song "Kaleidoscope" which appeared in the film and on the soundtrack album which was released on Warner Bros. W 1663 in October 1966He is known for composing music for the cult horror films House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin and Schizo for filmmaker Pete Walker.The Pink Floyd website credits the brass parts on their 1968 song Corporal Clegg to "The Stanley Myers Orchestra".Myers is best known for "Cavatina" (1970), an evocative guitar piece, played by John Williams, that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award. A somewhat different version of this work, not performed by Williams, had appeared in The Walking Stick. And yet another version had lyrics added. Cleo Laine and Iris Williams, in separate recordings as He Was Beautiful, helped to make "Cavatina" become even more popular.During the 1980s, Myers worked frequently with director Stephen Frears. His score for Prick Up Your Ears (1987) won him a "Best Artistic Contribution" award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also scored the film Wish You Were Here and several low budget features (Time Traveller, Blind Date, The Wind, Zero Boys) for director Nico Mastorakis, collaborating with Hans Zimmer. He won another Ivor Novello Award for his soundtrack to The Witches in 1991.Myers died of cancer aged 63 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.
Filmography
all 128
Movies 125
TV Shows 3
Director 1
The Summer House (1993)
Stalag Luft (1993)
Heart of Darkness (1993)
The Snapper (1993)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
Sarafina! (1992)
Cold Heaven (1992)
My Friend Walter (1992)
Claude (1992)
Iron Maze (1991)
A Murder of Quality (1991)
Voyager (1991)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
Heading Home (1991)
The Witches (1990)
Children Crossing (1990)
Ladder of Swords (1990)
Age-Old Friends (1989)
Torrents of Spring (1989)
A Small Mourning (1989)
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Heartland (1989)
The Boost (1988)
Paperhouse (1988)
Tidy Endings (1988)
Nightmare at Noon (1988)
Trading Hearts (1988)
Track 29 (1988)
Stars & Bars (1988)
Taffin (1988)
Baja Oklahoma (1988)
The Nature of the Beast (1988)
Stones for Ibarra (1988)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
A Wreath of Roses (1987)
Wish You Were Here (1987)
The Second Victory (1987)
Pack of Lies (1987)
Scoop (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
The Wind (1986)
Smart Money (1986)
The Zero Boys (1986)
Strong Medicine (1986)
Separate Vacations (1986)
The Russian Soldier (1986)
Castaway (1986)
Strong Medicine (1986)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
The Lightship (1985)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Dreamchild (1985)
My Brother Jonathan (1985)
Insignificance (1985)
Florence Nightingale (1985)
The Next One (1984)
The Story of O Part 2 (1984)
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984)
Rainy Day Women (1984)
Blind Date (1984)
The Chain (1984)
A Pattern of Roses (1983)
The Honorary Consul (1983)
Eureka (1983)
Moonlighting (1982)
Incubus (1982)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
The Gentleman Bandit (1981)
The Border (1980)
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1980)
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (1980)
Yesterday's Hero (1979)
The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1979)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
The Comeback (1978)
Absolution (1978)
The Greek Tycoon (1978)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
Schizo (1976)
Coup de Grâce (1976)
House of Mortal Sin (1976)
A Passage to England (1975)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
Frightmare (1974)
Stayover in Tirol (1974)
Caravan to Vaccarès (1974)
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
House of Whipcord (1974)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Road Movie (1974)
Is This a Record? (1973)
The Operation (1973)
Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)
The Love Ban (1973)
The Blockhouse (1973)
A Free Woman (1972)
King, Queen, Knave (1972)
Sitting Target (1972)
Zee and Co. (1971)
The Raging Moon (1971)
A Severed Head (1971)
Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Tam Lin (1970)
Underground (1970)
The Walking Stick (1970)
Tropic of Cancer (1970)
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Age of Consent (1969)
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)
Otley (1969)
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Separation (1968)
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Ulysses (1967)
Exit 19 (1966)
Kaleidoscope (1966)
The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966)
Road to St. Tropez (1966)
The Coming Out Party (1965)
The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965)
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965)
A Tap on the Shoulder (1965)
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1930-10-06
Deathday1993-11-09 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceBirmingham, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsLudus Tonalis
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