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James Bernard (1925-2001) Indian-born British composer educated at Wellington College, where his fellow pupils included Christopher Lee. Bernard was encouraged by the great British composer Benjamin Britten, who he first met when he was seventeen. After serving in the RAF for three years, and a short stint with BBC Radio, he wrote his first score for Hammer Films, The Quatermass Experiment, in 1955 for £100. His subsequent scores for the studio comprised Quatermass 2, The Curse of Frankenstein, X The Unknown, Dracula (one of the greatest and most influential horror film scores ever recorded), The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Terror of the Tongs, The Kiss of the Vampire, The Gorgon, Dracula Prince of Darkness, The Plague of the Zombies, She, Frankenstein Created Woman, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Devil Rides Out, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Scars of Dracula, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. He also composed the score for Torture Garden, an anthology film from Hammer rival Amicus, and in 1997 he wrote the score for Channel 4/[[Photoplay Production's restoration of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu. His final work appeared the following year in Kevin Brownlow's documentary Universal Horror for Turner Classic Movies. As co-writer of the original story for the 1950 atomic thriller Seven Days to Noon, he was one of the few composers to win an Academy Award for something other than music.