As with many of the best film music composers, Georges Auric was a child prodigy. At 15, the French-born Auric published his first compositions, and before he was 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. Considered "avant garde" in the days before atonality became commonplace, Auric was a favorite of such progressive filmmakers as Rene Clair and Jean Cocteau. It was for Cocteau's 1930 film Blood of a Poet that Auric wrote his first film score; his next assignment was Clair's A Nous a Liberte (1931), in which characters unexpectedly break into song at the drop of a chapeau. After the war, Auric wrote extensively for the British film industry, contributing scores to such films as Dead of Night (1945), Caesar and Cleopatra (1946) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). The music for these productions was as distinctly British as Auric's music for Les Parents Terribles (1949) and Orphee (1949) was unmistakably French. Auric's American films include Roman Holiday (1953), Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and The Innocents (1961). A few times, Auric found his work on the hit parade, as in the case of his love theme for Moulin Rouge (1952). Auric curtailed his cinema activities after 1962, when he was named director of the Paris Opera, though he kept his hand in the film business until 1969. While Georges Auric never won an Oscar, his work was cited several times by the Cannes Film Festival.
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Frantic
Featured Music |
1988 | |||
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L'Arbre de Noël
Composer (Music Score) |
1969 | |||
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Therese and Isabelle
Composer (Music Score) |
1968 | |||
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La Grande Vadrouille
Composer (Music Score) |
1966 | |||
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Composer (Music Score) |
1966 | |||
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The Mind Benders
Composer (Music Score) |
1963 | |||
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Aimez-Vous Brahms?
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
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Bridge to the Sun
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
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Le Rendez-vous de Minuit
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
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Princesse de Cleves
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
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The Innocents
Composer (Music Score) |
1961 | |||
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S.O.S. Pacific
Composer (Music Score) |
1960 | |||
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The Testament of Orpheus
Composer (Music Score) |
1960 | |||
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The Journey
Composer (Music Score) |
1959 | |||
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Christine
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
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Next to No Time
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
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The Night Heaven Fell
Composer (Music Score) |
1958 | |||
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Bonjour Tristesse
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Dangerous Exile
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Les Espions
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Les Sorcières de Salem
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1957 | |||
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The Story of Esther Costello
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Walk into Hell
Composer (Music Score) |
1957 | |||
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Abdulla the Great
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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Gervaise
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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Les Aventures de Till L'Espiegle
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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The Mystery of Picasso
Composer (Music Score) |
1956 | |||
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Lola Montès
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
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Rififi
Composer (Music Score) |
1955 | |||
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The Detective
Composer (Music Score) |
1954 | |||
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The Divided Heart
Composer (Music Score) |
1954 | |||
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The Good Die Young
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1954 | |||
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Roman Holiday
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Composer (Music Score) |
1953 | |||
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The Wages of Fear
Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision |
1953 | |||
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Daughter of the Sands
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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La Fête à Henriette
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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Moulin Rouge
Composer (Music Score) |
1952 | |||
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Caroline Cherie
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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The Galloping Major
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Composer (Music Score) |
1951 | |||
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Orpheus
Composer (Music Score) |
1950 | |||
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Ce Siecle A Cinquante Ans
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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Les Parents Terribles
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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Maya
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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Passport to Pimlico
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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Silent Dust
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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The Queen of Spades
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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The Spider and the Fly
Composer (Music Score) |
1949 | |||
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Another Shore
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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Corridor of Mirrors
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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L'Aigle A Deux Têtes
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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Ruy Blas
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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Hue and Cry
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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Les Jeux Sont Faits
Composer (Music Score) |
1947 | |||
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Beauty and the Beast
Actor, Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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La Septième Porte
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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La Symphonie Pastorale
Composer (Music Score) |
1946 | |||
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Dead of Night
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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Francois Villon
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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La Part de l'Ombre
Composer (Music Score) |
1945 | |||
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Le Bossu
Composer (Music Score) |
1944 | |||
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Farandole
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
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L'Eternel Retour
Composer (Music Score) |
1943 | |||
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L'Assassin a Peur la Nuit
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
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La Belle Aventure
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
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Monsieur la Souris
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
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Opera-Musette
Composer (Music Score) |
1942 | |||
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Les Petits Riens
Composer (Music Score) |
1941 | |||
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La Mode Revee
Composer (Music Score) |
1939 | |||
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Macao, L'enfer du Jeu
Composer (Music Score) |
1939 | |||
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The Alibi
Composer (Music Score) |
1939 | |||
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Entree des Artistes
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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Huilor
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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La Rue Sans Joie
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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Les Oranges de Jaffa
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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Orage
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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Son Oncle de Normandie
Composer (Music Score) |
1938 | |||
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Gribouille
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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L'Affaire Lafarge
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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La Danseuse Rouge
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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Le Messager
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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Tamara la Complaisante
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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Un Dejeuner de Soleil
Composer (Music Score) |
1937 | |||
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À Nous la Liberté
Composer (Music Score) |
1931 | |||
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The Blood of a Poet
Composer (Music Score) |
1930 | |||
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Entr'acte
Actor |
1924 |