Malcolm Arnold - biography

“Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.”

“Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth.  As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!”

“Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.”

Malcolm Arnold composed the score for the following films:
Badger’s Green (1949)
Britannia Mews (1949)
Your Witness (1950)
Home to Danger (1951)
No Highway (1951)
Curtain Up (1952)
Home at Seven (1952)
Stolen Face (1952)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The Ringer (1952)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
Wings of Danger (1952)
Albert R.N. (1953)
Four Sided Triangle (1953)
The Captain’s Paradise (1953)
Beautiful Stranger (1954)
Hobson’s Choice (1954)
The Belles of St. Trinian’s (1954)
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
A Prize of Gold (1955)
I Am a Camera (1955)
The Constant Husband (1955)
The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Value for Money (1955)
1984 (1956)
A Hill in Korea (1956)
Port Afrique (1956)
Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
Trapeze (1956)
Wicked as They Come (1956)
Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s (1957)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Dunkirk (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
The Key (1958)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Angry Silence (1960)
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s (1960)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
On the Fiddle (1961)
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
The Inspector (1962)
The Lion (1962)
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Sky West and Crooked (1966)
The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery (1966)
Africa: Texas Style (1967)