Kenneth V. Jones

Not to be confused with another English music composer, Ken Jones.

For all other similarly-named music writers and musicians, see Ken Jones § Music.

Kenneth Victor Jones FRCM (14 May 1924 – 2 December 2020) was a British film score composer.

Life

Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Jones was a scholar at King's School, Canterbury. This was followed by a 6-month RAF-sponsored course in music and philosophy at Queen's College, Oxford and, after the war, 3 years at the Royal College of Music from 1947 (of which he was later made a professor in 1958). He was a composer, founder and original conductor of The Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra and acted as one of the Governors of Rokeby School, helping to raise the £50,000 that was needed to save it from closure in 1966.

He died in December 2020 at the age of 96.

Selected filmography

• Sea Wife (1957)
• Fire Down Below (1957)
• How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
• High Flight (1957)
• No Time to Die (1958)
• The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
• Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
• The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
• Jazz Boat (1960)
• Oscar Wilde (1961)
• The Girl on the Boat (1961)
• The Brain (1962)
• Cairo (1963)
• Psyche 59 (1964)
• The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
• Maroc 7 (1967)
• The Projected Man (1967)
• Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
• Tower of Evil (1972)
• Paganini Strikes Again (1973)
• Professor Popper's Problem (1974)
• Blind Man's Bluff (1977)
• The Brute (1977)
• Leopard in the Snow (1978)

External links

• Kenneth V. Jones at IMDb