vn, 1907-1993 GB
Musician / Composer / Arranger
Philip Martell (6 October 1907 – 11 August 1993) was a British composer, arranger, musical director, orchestra leader, and most notably the head of Hammer Studios' music Department.Born in Whitechapel and brought up in the East End, at age five Philip let it be known that he studied the violin and worked in a theatre accompanying silent films. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music, he worked in the West End of London, conducting musicals, before starting film work as an arranger in the early 30s. He received his first credit on a film in 1949 as musical director on Val Guest's Murder at the Windmill and was both musical director and composer of the film score to Guest's Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950).