- Began his career composing music for BBC radio plays.
- Served in the RAF during World War II.
- Accepted into the Royal College of Music in 1946.
- He collaborated with the film critic Paul Dehn on the original story for "Seven Days To Noon" (for which they won an Oscar) and composed music for stage revues and songs which Dehn was involved in writing. The two men lived together until Dehn's death in 1976.
- The emphatic title-music for the 1958 "Dracula" film features a musical rendering of the title as three ominous notes ("Drac-u-la"). He used this idea for some of his other Hammer themes, too. The idea came from his partner, the film critic Paul Dehn.
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