Allan Gray

Allan Gray was one of the busier film composers in England from the late '30s through the 1950s. Born Joseph Zmigrod in Poland in 1902, he took up music as a boy and studied with Arnold Schoenberg during the 1920s. At the end of that decade, he went to work for producer Max Reinhardt as a composer and was responsible for authoring a children's opera, Wavelength ABC, in the early '30s. Gray began his career writing for motion pictures with the movie F.P. 1 (aka Flying Platform 1 Doesn't Answer), a 1933 feature mixing espionage, romance, and science fiction that was simultaneo...