Laurie Johnson

Nacimiento : 1927-02-07, Hampstead, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2024-01-16

Historia

Laurie Johnson was a television and film composer. He was also a bandleader.

Películas

They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists
Herself, pyschic medium
This two-parter is about as insightful and plausible as one of those "Histories Mysteries" specials, or that weekly John Edwards "Coast to Coast" baloney. A stream of real-life spook experts, ghost story writers and scientist types are interviewed. They try to convince (usually with little real proof) of the existence of the kind of paranormal activity seen in 'Poltergeist.'
Quattro Noza
Line Producer
Duel of Hearts
Associate Producer
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Duel of Hearts
Music
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
El espíritu de Montecarlo
Original Music Composer
Emilie y su sobrina viajan a Montecarlo, donde la joven se ve obligada a contraer matrimonio con un príncipe. Sin embrago, la revelación de un oscuro secreto hará que la boda no llegue a celebrarse.
El espíritu de Montecarlo
Associate Producer
Emilie y su sobrina viajan a Montecarlo, donde la joven se ve obligada a contraer matrimonio con un príncipe. Sin embrago, la revelación de un oscuro secreto hará que la boda no llegue a celebrarse.
Amor en el bosque
Original Music Composer
La joven Panthea Vyne se enamora de una apuesto bandolero que la salva de su brutal marido, al que mata en un duelo justo. Más tarde, cuando Carlos II de Inglaterra es restaurado en el trono, ella va a la Corte, pero allí se convierte en enemiga de la ex amante del rey, lo que pondrá su vida en peligro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Riesgo a corazones
Original Music Composer
Jugador compulsivo, sir Giles Staverley es engañado para que el juego de distancia de su casa por su viejo adversario, Lord Harry Wrotham. Como Staverley está angustiada y desesperada, Wrotham le da una última oportunidad - va a apostar todo Staverley ha perdido contra la mano hija Staverley en el matrimonio y su fondo fiduciario de 80.000 guineas. Staverley está de acuerdo y pierde de nuevo, pero incapaz de enfrentarse a su hija, Serena, se suicida. Señor Justin Vulcan, un notorio frío, claro desafíos jugador encabezada Wrotham para la casa y la niña y, para disgusto de Wrotham, gana. Justin ahora se encuentra en posesión de la casa y Serena, pero no tiene idea de qué hacer con ellos. Después de la reunión Serena y darse cuenta de que es mucho más joven y más hermoso de lo que había imaginado, se instala como una huésped en Mandrake, la casa familiar, a pesar del odio a la madre de Justin, Lady Harriet Vulcan. (FILMAFFINITY)
La isla de los vivos
Music
Un hombre (Michael Moriarty) que fue padre de un bebé monstruo, logra prevenir el mal confinando a todos los monstruos a una isla desierta.
Tvingad att leva
Original Music Composer
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman.
El último vals
Line Producer
Documental sobre el mundo del rock rodado en 1976 en el que Scorsese filma los conciertos de despedida de "The Band", por los que pasaron Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton y otras míticas figuras del rock de las últimas décadas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dial a Deadly Number
Music
A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally dials a desperate out -of-work actor.
Death in Deep Water
Original Music Composer
A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface.
A Midsummer Nightmare
Music
A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.
Murder Motel
Music
A young woman looking into the disappearance of her fiance discovers that the last place he was seen was at a very strange motel.
The Next Voice You See
Music
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.
Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
Music
After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
The Maids
Music
Versión de la obra de teatro del escritor francés Jean Genet. Solange (Glenda Jackson) y Claire (Susannah York) son dos hermanas que trabajan como sirvientes para una estricta señora (Merchant Vivian). Cuando la señora y el señor (Marcos Burns) salen de la casa, las dos mujeres se alternan a modo de juego como amo y sirviente saliendo así de sus frustaciones.
The Crazy Kill
Music
Two escaped convicts hold a couple hostage in their country home.
Where the Action Is
Music
A gambler is smuggled into a billionaire's house to undertake a gambling duel.
Hedda
Original Music Composer
Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns that Jorgen's rival for a university position, Ejlert, has made a surprising comeback with a recent publication, she's quick to push him back into his former alcoholism, steal the sequel to his book and even encourage the writer to kill himself.
A Killer With Two Faces
Music
A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.
A Killer in Every Corner
Music
A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.
Screamer
Music
A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Music
Two American girls go on a vacation to England and mysterious things begin happening when one of them falls to her death from atop a monument.
The Next Scream You Hear
Music
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story. Is someone trying to frame Mr. Peel? Peel asks private detective Matthew Earp to investigate.
A Coffin for the Bride
Music
Mark Walker is in the lucrative business of marrying wealthy older women and murdering them after the honeymoon. That all changes when he falls for cool blonde Stella McKenzie. He considers giving up his life of crime and finally marrying for love. The only obstacles in his way are a lawyer who suspects the truth, and temptation in the form of the perfect target for one more kill...
In the Steps of a Dead Man
Music
When a young soldier suddenly dies, his parents and his girlfriend are naturally shocked and upset by the news. Several months later a young man turns up at the parent's house claiming to be their dead son's best friend. They welcome him and invite him to stay for a while. They also introduce him to their son's girlfriend and she is similarly impressed by him. It is later discovered, however, that he is not what he appears to be and may have had a hand in their son's death.
Death to Sister Mary
Music
The cast of a British soap opera are attacked by a mad fan who confuses them with their TV roles.
Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Music
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
Sign it Death
Music
A young woman schemes to marry a wealthy businessman by becoming his secretary.
Capitán Kronos, cazador de vampiros
Original Music Composer
Cuando varias jóvenes aparecen muertas, extrañamente envejecidas y sin una gota de sangre en el cuerpo, el Dr. Marcus sospecha que se trata de vampirismo, por lo que recluta a Kronos, el Cazador de Vampiros, el cual ha destinado su vida a luchar contra el mal. Una vez víctima él mismo del vampirismo, conoce la fuerza y la debilidad de los vampiros, así como los grandes peligros que conlleva el enfrentamiento a las fuerzas del mal.
I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Original Music Composer
Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could be able to identify the killer, but the killer also knows her face and knows he needs to silence the witness...
K is for Killing
Music
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.
Only a Scream Away
Music
Newlyweds Samantha and Robert Miller emerge from the church to the sound of cheers. However, the happy scene is disturbed by a cruel practical joke, someone throws a paint-bomb at the bride. Later, upon returning from their honeymoon the couple discover the smashed remnants of their wedding cake and a mysterious gift -- one soiled glove. Could it be a warning? Does someone hold a grudge against the couple?
Once the Killing Starts
Music
Married college professor Michael Lane falls in love with one of his students and hatches an elaborate scheme to dispose of his wife, Elizabeth. His murder plot goes as planned. However, he soon receives an anonymous note: "I know what you did, murderer!" Prof. Lane frantically tries to discover who knows his secret...
Diagnosis: Murder
Original Music Composer
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress, but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan.
Ring Once for Death
Music
Recently widowed Laura Vallance returns home to England after many years living abroad. She knows few people in England, but she desires rest and seclusion in her time of grief. However, she is more alone than she bargained for when she hires Roger Masters as her butler. With small doses of poison, the ruthless butler plans to keeps his wealthy employer incapacitated... permanently.
One Deadly Owner
Music
A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.
Spell of Evil
Music
A businessman hires a marriage bureau when his wife dies from a sudden illness and is delighted to find himself paired up with the beautiful Clara. Despite seeming like the perfect wife, Clara is in fact a witch and has nothing but evil intentions for her new husband.
The Eyes Have It
Music
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the assassination of a politician who will soon be passing the school on a parade route. Only one student, Sally, suspects that the men upstairs may be dangerous...
File It Under Fear
Music
File It Under Fear takes place in an outwardly normal rural British community. The tranquility is shattered by a series of brutal murders, all of them occurring in the library.
Murder In Mind
Music
Mystery author's wife confesses to murder.
The Colour of Blood
Music
A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.
Possession
Music
With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.
Lady Killer
Music
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
An Echo of Theresa
Original Music Composer
American businessman Brad Hunter and his wife Suzy are visiting England for the first time. Meeting a business contact, Brad introduces his wife as "Theresa." But it seems to be more than an innocent slip of the tongue. Brad begins behaving strangely and knows more about specific locations in London than he would as a first time visitor. Suzy hires private detective Matthew Earp to look into the reasons behind her husbands sudden change in personality. This aired on British TV as part of the "Thriller" series (under the title "An Echo of Theresa") but was issued as a featured on home video in the U.S. as "Anatomy of Terror."
The Firechasers
Music
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
De repente, la oscuridad
Original Music Composer
Jane (Pamela Franklin) y Cathy (Michele Dotrice) son dos jóvenes inglesas haciendo un viaje en bicicleta a través de la Francia rural. Cuando se detienen a descansar en un lugar al lado de la carretera, Cathy decide que quiere tomar un baño de sol, discuten y Jane decide continuar el viaje sola. Al tiempo, comienza a reconsiderar su decisión y regresa al punto donde dejó a Cathy. Al no encontrar a su amiga, e inquieta por la constante presencia de un motociclista, buscará la ayuda de un policía local (John Nettleton) para que la ayude a resolver el misterio.
Mister Jerico
Conductor
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
Mister Jerico
Original Music Composer
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
Hot Millions
Original Music Composer
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
The Beauty Jungle
Music
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
East of Sudan
Music
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
La gran sorpresa
Original Music Composer
Un equipo de astronautas estadounidenses que están inmersos en los preparativos de un viaje a la Luna se quedan confundidos y muy intrigados cuando un hombre asegura que él, su novia y un científico viajaron a la luna 65 años antes y fueron atacados por los “selenitas”, unas criaturas extrañas mitad hombre, mitad hormiga que viven en enormes cavernas de cristal.
¿Teléfono rojo? Volamos hacia Moscú
Original Music Composer
Convencido de que los comunistas están contaminando los Estados Unidos, un general ordena, en un acceso de locura, un ataque aéreo nuclear sorpresa contra la Unión Soviética. Su ayudante, el capitán Mandrake, trata de encontrar la fórmula para impedir el bombardeo. Por su parte, el presidente de los EE.UU. se pone en contacto con Moscú para convencer al gobierno soviético de que el ataque no es más que un estúpido error. Mientras tanto, el asesor estadounidense, un antiguo científico nazi, el doctor Strangelove, confirma la existencia de la "Máquina del Juicio Final", un dispositivo de represalia soviético capaz de acabar con la humanidad para siempre.
Operation Bullshine
Music
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
La bahía del tigre
Original Music Composer
Gillie, una niña de doce años que vive en un pequeño pueblo británico, presencia casualmente un asesinato: Korchinsky, un marinero polaco, en un arrebato de ira, mata a su amante después de encontrarla con otro hombre. Gillie recoge el arma del crimen e intenta huir; Korchinsky consigue alcanzarla, pero es incapaz de hacerle daño. Entre ambos se crea un extraño vínculo afectivo, que lleva a Gillie a despistar a la policía para salvar a su nuevo amigo.
No Trees in the Street
Original Music Composer
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Girls at Sea
Music
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Eaton, a charming American girl; among the guests are Mary Carlton, Jill's American friend, and Antoinette, a vivacious redhead. However, when the last shore-boat is deemed unseaworthy, the girls are obliged to spend the night on ship. A series of hilarious complications ensue, as the officers attempt to keep the girls away from the beady eyes of Admiral Hewitt – who chooses this very night to board the Scotia.
The Moonraker
Original Music Composer
Un intrépido noble se dedica a salvar las vidas de muchos partidarios del rey Carlos Estuardo, depuesto por Oliver Cromwell