Bruce Montgomery

BRUCE MONTGOMERY d1978. English crime writer and composer (who used the pseudonym Edmund Crispin) known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series. He first became established under his own name as a composer of vocal and choral music, including An Oxford Requiem (1951), but later turned to film work, writing the scores for many British comedies of the 1950s. For the Carry On series he composed six scores ; (Sergeant, Nurse / Teacher / Constable / Regardless and Cruising), including the original Carry On theme subsequently adapted for later films by Eric Rogers. He also composed the scores to four films in the Doctor film series ; (House / Sea / Large and Love). He wrote both the screenplay and score of Raising the Wind (1961) and his other film scores included ; The Kidnappers (1953) / Raising a Riot (1955) / Eyewitness (1956) / The Truth About Women (1957) / The Surgeon's Knife (1957) / Please Turn Over (1959) / Too Young to Love (1959) / Watch Your Stern (1960) / No Kidding (1960) / Twice Round the Daffodils (1962) and The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966). He died aged 56 in 1978