Buxton Orr

Born in Glasgow and initially trained as a doctor, he abandoned medicine in 1952 to study composition with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst at the Guildhall School of Music. Early film work such as Grip of the Strangler (1958) and Corridors of Blood led to his first major recognition when his score accompanied Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1959 production of Tennessee Williams’s Suddenl… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources