Georges Auric

Composer

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Birth Place

France

Born

February 15, 1899

Died

July 23, 1983

Biography

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A respected composer before sound came to the movies, Auric's first film score was for Jean Cocteau's seminal "The Blood of a Poet" (1930). He subsequently composed over 100 film scores for numerous directors including Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Hamer, John Huston and Max Ophuls....

Filmography

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Entr'acte (1924)

Elizabethtown (2005)

The Christmas Tree (1969)

Don't Look Now (1969)

Therese and Isabelle (1968)

Thomas the Imposter (1965)

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Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Never See Me

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Is Anyone There

Biography

A respected composer before sound came to the movies, Auric's first film score was for Jean Cocteau's seminal "The Blood of a Poet" (1930). He subsequently composed over 100 film scores for numerous directors including Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Hamer, John Huston and Max Ophuls.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Entr'acte (1924)

Music (Feature Film)

Elizabethtown (2005)

The Christmas Tree (1969)

Don't Look Now (1969)

Therese and Isabelle (1968)

Thomas the Imposter (1965)

The Mind Benders (1963)

Music Composition

The Burning Court (1963)

Testament of Orpheus (1962)

Bridge to the Sun (1961)

The Innocents (1961)

Music Composition

Goodbye Again (1961)

The Innocents (1961)

S.O.S. Pacific (1960)

The Journey (1959)

Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

Next to No Time (1958)

The Night Heaven Fell (1958)

The Mystery of Picasso (1958)

Dangerous Exile (1958)

The Story of Esther Costello (1957)

Music Composition

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)

Music Composition

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1957)

The Witches of Salem (1957)

Music (French Version)

The Spies (1957)

He Who Must Die (1957)

Gervaise (1957)

Aventures de Till l'Espiegel, Les (1956)

The Divided Heart (1955)

Abdullah the Great (1955)

Lola Montes (1955)

The Detective (1954)

The Good Die Young (1954)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Moulin Rouge (1953)

Music Composition

Moulin Rouge (1953)

La Chair et le Diable (1953)

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

La Fete A Henriette (1952)

The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)

Wages of Fear (1952)

The Galloping Major (1951)

Cage Of Gold (1950)

The Spider and the Fly (1949)

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

The Queen of Spades (1948)

The Eagle Has Two Heads (1948)

Parents Terribles, Les (1948)

Silent Dust (1948)

Another Shore (1948)

Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Jeux sont faits, Les (1947)

Hue and Cry (1947)

La belle et la bête (1946)

La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)

Dead of Night (1945)

Caesar And Cleopatra (1945)

The Eternal Return (1943)

Gribouille (1937)

La Danseuse rouge (1937)

Le Messager (1937)

Sous les yeux de l'Occident (1936)

The Blood of a Poet (1932)

À nous la liberté (1931)

Music (Short)

Smash en direct (1962)

The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)

Music (TV Mini-Series)

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)

Life Events

1930

First film score, Jean Cocteau's "The Blood of a Poet"

1962

Made director of Paris Opera

Videos

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Never See Me Belle (Josette Day) in her continuing adventure at the castle, meets "The Beast" (Jean Marais) and passes out, followed by further freakiness, in Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, 1946.

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Is Anyone There Disconsolate father (Marcel Andre) of the heroine, lost in the woods, comes upon a mysterious house, nobody apparently home, in Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, 1946.

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You Steal My Roses Father (Marcel Andre) awakens in the mysterious castle and meets and offends "The Beast" (Jean Marais), in Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, 1946.

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Your Mirror Hoping to save her father from ruin, Belle (Josette Day) sneaks into the home of the beast, guided by the "voice of magic" (voice of director and scenarist Jean Cocteau) in Beauty And The Beast, 1946.

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Once Upon A Time Imaginative opening sequence from director and writer Jean Cocteau, from Beauty And The Beast, 1946, starring Josette Day and Jean Marais.

Lola Montes (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Femme Fatale Wild spectacle with Peter Ustinov (as "Circus Master") in perfect French, introducing the central motif and the title character (Martine Carol), opening Max Ophuls' Lola Montes, 1955.

Moulin Rouge (1952) -- (Movie Clip) It's April Again Still in director John Huston’s extended opening, 1890 at Moulin Rouge in Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) consults with the bothered owner (Harold Kasket), then everything stops as we meet Zsa Zsa Gabor, as singer Jane, song by Georges Auric and Jacques Larue, in Moulin Rouge, 1952.

Beauty And The Beast (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Devil Himself Introducing diabolical sisters Felicie (Mila Parely) and Adelaide (Nane Germon), their kind sister Belle (Josette Day), her suitor Avenant (Michel Auclair) and brother Ludovic, in Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast, 1946.

A Nous La Liberte -- (Movie Clip) A Job Of Worth Fleeing an angry merchant, ex-convict Emile (Henri Marchand) stumbles into a job, where he is charmed by Jeanne (Rolla France) and reminded of his previous gig, in Rene Clair's A Nous La Liberte, 1931.

A Nous La Liberte -- (Movie Clip) A Happy Man's Due Introducing Louis (Raymond Cordy) and Emile (Henry Marchand) in prison, the sublime opening scene from Rene Clair's celebrated comedy, which he called an "operetta," A Nous La Liberte, 1931.

Story of Esther Costello, The - (Original Trailer) A bitter divorcee (Joan Crawford) works to educate a deaf and blind girl in The Story of Esther Costello (1957).

Lavender Hill Mob, The - (Original Trailer) An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold in the comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) starring Alec Guinness.

Goodbye Again (1961) - (Original Trailer) Ingrid Bergman trades Yves Montand for young Anthony Perkins in the Parisian romance Goodbye Again (1961) with fashions by Christian Dior.

Bonjour Tristesse - (Original Trailer) A jealous teenage girl (Jean Seberg) plots to end the remarriage of her father (David Niven) in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958).

Bridge To The Sun - (Original Trailer) The true story of an American Southerner (Carroll Baker) who marries a Japanese diplomat just before World War II, Bridge To The Sun (1961).

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - (Original Trailer) A marine (Robert Mitchum) and a nun (Deborah Kerr) are shipwrecked on a Pacific Island in John Huston's Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957).

Roman Holiday - (Original Trailer) A runaway princess (Audrey Hepburn) in Rome finds love with a reporter (Gregory Peck) who knows her true identity in Roman Holiday (1953).

Moulin Rouge - (Original Trailer) French painter Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) searches for love despite his physical limitations in Moulin Rouge (1952), an Oscar winning biography by director John Huston.

Journey, The - (Original Trailer) A Communist officer (Yul Brynner) falls for a married woman (Deborah Kerr) during the 1956 Hungarian invasion in The Journey (1959).

Innocents, The (1961) - (Original Trailer) A governess (Deborah Kerr) believes her charges possessed in the best adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents, 1961, directed by Jack Clayton.

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