Ken Thorne

KEN THORNE d2014. British television and film score composer. He began composing scores for films in 1948. He was considered Richard Lester's composer of choice since their first work together on It's Trad Dad (1962) / Help! (1965) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). When Henry Mancini was scoring Blake Edwards' 1968 film The Party with Peter Sellers, he composed the soundtrack to Inspector Clouseau. He also composed the music scores for ; How I Won the War (1967) / The Monkees movie Head (1968) / The Magic Christian (1969) and The Ritz (1976). He was also hired for Richard Lester's films Superman II and III (with instructions to reuse the themes composed by John Williams) from the first film and adapt them for the sequels