John Hollingsworth

About John Hollingsworth

Who is it?: Music Department, Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day: March 20, 1916
Birth Place: Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
Birth Name: John Ernest Hollingsworth

John Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and, by 1939, was conducting concerts with the London Symphony...
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As per our current Database, John Hollingsworth has been died on 29 December, 1963 at London, England, UK.

🎂 John Hollingsworth - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When John Hollingsworth die, John Hollingsworth was 47 years old.

Popular As John Hollingsworth
Occupation Music Department
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born March 20, 1916 (Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK)
Birthday March 20
Town/City Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
Nationality UK

🌙 Zodiac

John Hollingsworth’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

John Hollingsworth was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

Hollingsworth studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and, by 1939, was conducting concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he joined the orchestra of the Royal Air Force as an associate conductor, at the same time orchestrating wartime documentaries made by the Crown Film Unit.

After the war, Hollingsworth alternated working on feature films with conducting for ballet and classical music, frequently performing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1945, he joined Cineguild to work under Muir Mathieson as assistant musical director, notably involved in the Sergei Rachmaninoff score (the hugely popular Second Piano Concerto) for Brief Encounter (1945).

In 1954, he replaced Frank Spencer as musical director at Hammer Studios. As music supervisor, he worked on some of Hammer's best-known films, such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)and Horror of Dracula (1958).

He also occasionally free-lanced for other studios, involved in such notable films as The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963), the Peter Sellers comedy Heavens Above! (1963) and Joseph Losey's These Are the Damned (1962).

Hollingsworth remained in his position at Hammer until his untimely death in 1963, aged just 47, of pneumonia.

John Hollingsworth Movies

  • The Pirates of Blood River (1962) as Music Department
  • The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) as Music Department
  • The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) as Music Department
  • Race for Life (1954) as Music Department

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