Robert Farnon

Robert Joseph Farnon was a musician before turning to arranging and composing. He played trumpet in a number of Toronto-based big bands in the 1930`s and gravitated toward the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission’s orchestras led by Percy Faith and Geoffery Waddington. He became a regular on the long-running CBC radio series The Happy Gang between 1937 and 1943. He then headed to Europe during the war as Musical Director of the Army Show. At the end of W.W.II he decided to stay in England and became a conductor, composer and arranger for the BBC. In addition to composing for film he also arranged music for such well-known singers as Vera Lynn, Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra.

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Features & TV Movies:
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Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Just William’s Luck (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)

Circle of Danger (1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
His Majesty O’Keefe (1953)
Gentleman Marry Brunettes (1955)
All for Mary (1955)
True as Turtle (1956)
It’s a Wonderful World (1956)
The Little Hut (1957)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

Expresso Bongo (1960)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
The Truth About Spring (1964)
Shalako (1968)

Bear Island (1979)
Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (TV-1979)

Friend or Foe (1981)

TV Series:
The Prisoner (1967)
The Champions (1968)