Anthony Collins(1893-1963)

Music Department
Composer
Actor

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Anthony Collins was born on 3 September 1893 in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for Irène (1940), Mardi gras (1941) and Edith Cavell (1939). He died on 11 December 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 3 nominations total

Known for

Ray Milland and Anna Neagle in Irène (1940)

6.3

Music Department

1940

Ray Bolger, Edward Everett Horton, John Carroll, and Anna Neagle in Mardi gras (1941)

5.5

Music Department

1941

Anna Neagle in Edith Cavell (1939)

6.5

Composer

1939

Anna Neagle in No, No, Nanette (1940)

No, No, Nanette

5.2

Music Department

1940

Credits

Music Department

The Lady Is a Square
5.9
- Orchestrator: Handel Aria
- 1959
À des millions de kilomètres de la Terre
6.3
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1957
Spoilers of the Forest
5.7
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1957
Carrefour de la vengeance
5.6
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1957
Bagarre à Apache Wells
5.9
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1957
Terror at Midnight
6.5
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1956
Le tueur au cerveau atomique
5.5
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1955
Panther Girl of the Kongo
5.0
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1955
Laughing Anne
5.7
- conductor
- 1953
Tam-Tam dans la Jungle
5.8
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1953
L'affaire Manderson
6.0
- conductor
- 1952
Zombies of the Stratosphere
5.0
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1952
Derby Day
6.4
- conductor
- 1952
Black Hills Ambush
6.7
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1952
Leadville Gunslinger
6.9
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1952

Composer

Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé
6.6
- Composer (musical score)
- 1954
Laughing Anne
5.7
- Composer
- 1953
L'affaire Manderson
6.0
- Composer
- 1952
Derby Day
6.4
- Composer
- 1952
Le Paradis des mauvais garçons
6.6
- Composer
- 1952
The Lady with a Lamp
6.4
- Composer
- 1951
Odette, agent S.23
6.8
- Composer (musical score)
- 1950
La Légende du Texas
6.5
- Composer
- 1947
Mésalliance
6.6
- Composer
- 1947
I Live in Grosvenor Square
6.1
- Composer (musical score)
- 1945
The Nazis Strike
7.0
Short
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1943
La musique en folie
5.6
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1943
Destroyer
6.3
- Composer
- 1943
Et la vie recommence
6.9
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1943
Unexpected Uncle
6.0
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941

Actor

Personal details

Alternative names
- Anthony V. Collins
Born
- September 3, 1893
- Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
Died
- December 11, 1963
- Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed)

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Trivia
British composer, trained under Gustav Holst at the Royal College of Music. Leading viola player with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Orchestra from 1926 to 1936. He was later associated for many years (as musical director) with the films of Herbert Wilcox (and his wife Anna Neagle) on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930's and 40's.

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