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He was born in Cobham, Surrey,
England and was
sometimes known as Jock Addison.
He was a soldier in XXX Corps, the British tank force that drove
north through Holland during
Operation Market Garden commencing Sept. 17, 1944. He wrote the music-score for A Bridge Too Far as a tribute to his fellow tankers of XXX
Corps, for which he won a BAFTA award. He won an Oscar and a Grammy for his score for Tom Jones and he won 6 Emmys for Murder, She Wrote from
1988-1995. Other scores
he worked on included Sleuth, A Taste
of Honey and Reach for the Sky. He died on 7th December 1998 in Vermont,
USA, of a
stroke.
Songs
Swashbuckler
- Main Theme (John Addison)
Swashbuckler
- Love Theme (John Addison)
Sources:
- http://imdb.com/name/nm0011709/
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