Muir Mathieson(1911-1975)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Muir first worked in the movies
on the quota quickies of the 1930s. His big break came when
Alexander Korda signed him as
musical director on
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934).
He went on to conduct Sir
William Walton's score for
Henry V (1944)
and Hamlet (1948), as a part of a long,
distinguished career as one of the most distinguished composers and
musical directors in British cinema.
