30 Facts About Ron Goodwin

Ronald Alfred Goodwin was an English composer and conductor known for his film music.

Ron Goodwin scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years.

Ron Goodwin wrote his first feature film score for Whirlpool, with screenplay by Lawrence P Bachmann.

Ron Goodwin later studied the trumpet in London at the Guildhall School of Music.

In 1943, after a brief spell as an insurance clerk, Ron Goodwin joined Campbell, Connelly and Company, a music publisher.

Ron Goodwin's job was a copyist and arranger and went on to work in that role for the BBC.

Ron Goodwin entered the world of movie music through documentary films, which he said was "a very good training".

Ron Goodwin worked as a ghostwriter for Phil Green, Stanley Black, Geraldo and Peter Yorke among others.

From 1949, Ron Goodwin conducted for the Polygon company, arranging and conducting recordings of Petula Clark and Jimmy Young, including the latter's 1951 UK no 1 hit "Too Young".

Ron Goodwin accompanied Peter Sellers on his Goodness Gracious Me album, and began to broadcast and make records with his Ron Goodwin Concert Orchestra.

In 1953, Ron Goodwin began arranging and conducting more than 300 recordings for over fifty performers, which resulted in more than 100 chart successes.

Ron Goodwin simultaneously made his own series of recordings and broadcasts as Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra, and, in addition, began to compose scores for documentary films at Merton Park Studios.

In 1958, Goodwin wrote his first feature film score for Whirlpool, with screenplay by Lawrence P Bachmann.

Ron Goodwin is primarily known for his film music and worked on more than 70 scores during his career.

Ron Goodwin composed his first feature film, Man with a Gun in 1958 and was quickly followed by The Witness and Whirlpool a year later.

Ron Goodwin later went on to compose for the remaining three Miss Marple films Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul and Murder Ahoy.

Ron Goodwin scored two horror films, Village of the Damned and its sequel Children of the Damned.

Ron Goodwin wrote the scores for Of Human Bondage, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy, two movies featuring Morecambe and Wise, and the Norman Wisdom film, The Early Bird.

Ron Goodwin wrote several Disney film scores during the 1970s, including the one used for One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.

Ron Goodwin composed the music and lyrics for a series of animated films.

Ron Goodwin composed the Yorkshire Television start up music used from their launch in July 1968 to the early 1980s, before ITV had breakfast television.

Ron Goodwin wrote the television advertising jingles such as Noddy's chant, "I like Ricicles: they're twicicle as nicicles", and the "Mr Sheen shines umpteen things clean" song, inspired by Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

Ron Goodwin was guest conductor at the Royal Academy of Music's Festival of British and American Film Music in June 1996.

In 1972, Goodwin recorded Somebody Named Ron Goodwin Plays Somebody Named Burt Bacharach and recorded internationally, winning gold and platinum discs awarded by EMI.

Ron Goodwin won a platinum disc from EMI New Zealand to mark two million sales of the album "Going Places".

Ron Goodwin was nominated for the Golden Globe award for best original score for the movie Frenzy.

Ron Goodwin was married twice and had a son, Chris, from his first marriage.

Ron Goodwin was a kind, caring man, with a wonderful sense of humour.

The road in which Ron Goodwin lived with his family in Plymouth has since been renamed Ron Goodwin Crescent in his memory.

In December 2002, Ron Goodwin completed his 32nd consecutive year of Christmas concerts in packed venues across the South of England.