David Whitaker is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

, arranger

Arranger

In investment banking, an arranger is a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the "lead underwriter". This is because this entity bears the risk of being able to sell the underlying securities/debt or the...

, and conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

.

active in the 1960s and 1970s. He collaborated with some of the most prestigious British and French artists including Air, Etienne Daho

Étienne Daho

Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...

, Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

, Claude François

Claude François

Claude François was a French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."-Early life:...

, Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

, France Gall

France Gall

France Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....

, Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to one of the most popular French female singers: Sylvie Vartan...

, The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

, Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page

James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...

 (Death Wish II), Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne (band)

Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...

, Simply Red

Simply Red

Simply Red were a British soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career. Their style drew influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, reggae and jazz...

, Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...

 and others like Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...

, Kings of Convenience

Kings of Convenience

Kings of Convenience are an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway. Consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, the musical group is known for their delicate tunes, calming voices, and intricate and subtle guitar melodies...

 and Francesco De Gregori

Francesco De Gregori

Francesco De Gregori is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as "Il Principe Poeta" , a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.-1970s:...

.

Whitaker recorded several sessions with the BBC Radio Orchestra

BBC Radio Orchestra

The BBC Radio Orchestra was a broadcasting orchestra based in London, maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1965 until 1991....

 at the Maida Vale Studios, London in the early 1980s, featuring a mixture of his own compositions and arrangements, to high-acclaim.

Selected Movies

• 1968: Hammerhead
  Hammerhead (film)
  Hammerhead is a 1968 British thriller film directed by David Miller and starring Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson and Diana Dors. A criminal mastermind attempts to steal NATO secrets, while an American agent is hot on his trail. It is based on the novel by James Mayo, and produced by Irwin Allen and...
  
  directed by David Miller
  David Miller (director)
  David Miller was an American movie director who directed such varied films as Billy the Kid with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy, Flying Tigers with John Wayne, and Love Happy with the Marx Brothers.-Filmography:* Bittersweet Love * Executive Action * Hail, Hero! * Hammerhead...
  
  , starring Diana Dors
  Diana Dors
  Diana Dors was an English actress, born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, Wiltshire. Considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood, Dors described herself as: "The only sex symbol Britain has produced since Lady Godiva."-Early life:Diana Mary Fluck was born in ­Swindon,...
  
  
• 1969: Run Wild, Run Free
  Run Wild, Run Free
  Run Wild, Run Free is a 1969 film directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The film was written by David Rook, based on his novel The White Colt. The film was shot on location in Dartmoor, Devon, England.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Richard C. Sarafian
  Richard C. Sarafian
  Richard C. Sarafian is an Armenian-American TV and film director. Richard Sarafian has complied a versatile career that has spanned over five decades as a director, actor and writer. He is most popular for his film Vanishing Point . He is the father of: Richard Sarafian Jr., Tedi Sarafian, Damon B...
  
  , starring John Mills
  John Mills
  Sir John Mills CBE , born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.-Life and career:...
  
  
• 1971: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
  Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is a 1971 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the short story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their second adaptation of the story after their 1960 film The...
  
  directed by Roy Ward Baker
  Roy Ward Baker
  Roy Ward Baker , born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film in 1959...
  
  , starring Ralph Bates
  Ralph Bates
  Ralph Bates was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company....
  
  , Martine Beswick
  Martine Beswick
  Martine Beswick is an English actress and model, best known for her roles in two James Bond films.-Biography:Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica to English parents....
  
  
• 1974: Vampira
  Vampira (film)
  Vampira is a 1974 comedy/horror film spoofing the vampire genre. It stars David Niven and Teresa Graves. Following the success of Young Frankenstein, Vampira was renamed Old Dracula for release in the United States in an attempt to cash in on Young Frankenstein's success.-Plot:Count Dracula is an...
  
  directed by Clive Donner
  Clive Donner
  Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat?...
  
  , starring David Niven
  David Niven
  James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
  
  , Teresa Graves
  Teresa Graves
  Teresa Graves was an American actress and singer. As the star of Get Christie Love!, Graves is credited as being the first African American woman to star in her own hour long drama television series....
  
  
• 1978: Dominique
  Dominique (film)
  Dominique is a 1980 British film directed by Michael Anderson.The film is also known as Dominique Is Dead .-Plot:...
  
  directed by Michael Anderson
  Michael Anderson (director)
  Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...
  
  , starring Cliff Robertson
  Cliff Robertson
  Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned half of a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie Charly...
  
  , Jean Simmons
  Jean Simmons
  Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J...
  
  
• 1982: The Sword and the Sorcerer
  The Sword and the Sorcerer
  The Sword and the Sorcerer is a 1982 fantasy film, starring Lee Horsley, Richard Lynch, and Richard Moll, directed by Albert Pyun. A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful...
  
  directed by Albert Pyun
  Albert Pyun
  Albert Pyun is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs...
  
  , starring Lee Horsley
  Lee Horsley
  Lee Arthur Horsley is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series, Nero Wolfe , Matt Houston , and Paradise . He starred in the 1982 cult film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove...
  
  , Kathleen Beller
  Kathleen Beller
  Kathleen Beller is an actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Promises in the Dark...
  
  
• 1998: Shadow Run
  Shadow Run (film)
  Shadow Run is a 1998 crime film set in the south of England, UK. It is based on the novel by Desmond Lowden. It was never released to cinema.-Plot summary:...
  
  directed by Geoffrey Reeve
  Geoffrey Reeve
  -Credits as director:*Puppet on a Chain *Caravan to Vaccares *Souvenir *The Way to Dusty Death *Shadow Run -External links:...
  
  , starring Michael Caine
  Michael Caine
  Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor. He won Academy Awards for best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules ....
  
  , James Fox
  James Fox
  James Fox, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:James Fox was born in London, England to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His...
  
  
• 2000: With a Friend Like Harry (Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien) directed by Dominik Moll
  Dominik Moll
  Dominik Moll is a German born French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien and Lemming. He was born in Bühl, West Germany....
  
  , starring Sergi López
• 2006: Lemming
  Lemming (film)
  Lemming is a psychological thriller film, directed by Dominik Moll and starring André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Laurent Lucas. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  directed by Dominik Moll
  Dominik Moll
  Dominik Moll is a German born French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien and Lemming. He was born in Bühl, West Germany....
  
  , starring Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
  
  , Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
  
  

Compilation

• 2002: The David Whitaker Songbook, 1 CD Collection "Musée de l’Imaginaire", Album 20 Tricatel - Compiled by Thomas Jamois and Bertrand Burgalat
  Bertrand Burgalat
  Bertrand Burgalat is a French musician, composer and producer.- Background :Bertrand Burgalat was born in the Corsican town of Bastia in 1963...
  
   with the help of David Whitaker (all selections arranged and conducted by David Sinclair Whitaker), track listing:

1. The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
   The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
   The Andrew Oldham Orchestra was a musical side project in the mid 1960s created by Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager and record producer of The Rolling Stones. There was no actual orchestra per se. The name was applied to recordings made by Oldham using a multitude of session musicians,...
   
   
   The Last Time
   (Mick Jagger
   Mick Jagger
   Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
   
    / Keith Richards
   Keith Richards
   Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
   
   ) Westminster Music / ABKCO Music, Inc. (BMI)
   (P) 1967 Immediate Records, lnc
2. Long Chris
   La Petite fille de l’hiver
   (Éric Demarsan / Long Chris) Ed. Tulsa
   (P) 1967 Philips
3. OST Run Wild, Run Free
   Philip’s Triumph
   (David Whitaker) Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI
   (P) 1969 SGC
4. Music To Spy By
   Strange Affair
   (David Whitaker)
   (P) 1965 CBS
5. Nico
   Nico
   Nico was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s...
   
   
   I‘m Not Saying
   (Gordon Lightfoot
   Gordon Lightfoot
   Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
   
   ) Chelsea Music Publishing
   (P) 1965 Andrew Loog Oldham Production
6. Music to spy by
   Alive At Last
   (David Whitaker)
   (P) 1965 CBS
7. OST Run Wild, Run Free
   A Ride On The White Colt
   (David Whitaker) Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI
   (P) 1969 SGC
8. Lee Hazlewood
   Lee Hazlewood
   Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...
   
   
   What’s More I Don’t Need Her
   (Lee Hazlewood
   Lee Hazlewood
   Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...
   
   ) Lee Hazlewood Music, Corp
   (P) 1970 Lee Hazlewood Music, Corp
9. David Whitaker
   Pavane
   (David Whitaker)
   (P) 1974 Reserved rights
10. David Whitaker
    Susie
    (David Whitaker)
    (P) 1974 Reserved rights
11. OST Run Wild, Run Free
    Philip On The Moors
    (David Whitaker) Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI
    (P) 1969 SGC
12. OST Run Wild, Run Free
    Philip Grows Up
    (David Whitaker) Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI
    (P) 1969 SGC
13. OST Hammerhead
    Hood Explore The Triton
    (David Whitaker) Screen Gems-Columbia, BMI
    (P) 1968 Colgems Records, lnc
14. Music To Spy By
    Interception
    (David Whitaker)
    (P) 1965 SGC
15. France Gall
    France Gall
    France Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....
    
    
    Chanson Indienne (Indian Song)
    (Lyrics by Robert Gall
    Robert Gall
    Robert Gall, Robert Gall, Robert Gall, (1918, Saint-Fargeau, Yonne - 1990, was a French lyricist. He married Cécile Berthier, daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Robert and Cécile are parents of singer France Gall. Their two sons, twins Patrice and...
    
     / Music David Whitaker) Ed. Sidonie
    (P) 1968 Philips
16. OST Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien
    L’Autoroute des vacances
    (David Whitaker) Ed. Diaphana / BMG Music Pub.
    (P) 2000 Diaphana / Source
17. Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
    
    
    Plaisir d'Amour
    Plaisir d'Amour
    "Plaisir d'amour" is a classical French love song written in 1780 by Jean Paul Égide Martini . Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra...
    
    
    (Public domain)
    (P) 1965 Andrew Loog Oldham Production
18. Music To Spy By
    Cressida
    (David Whitaker)
    (P) 1965 SGC
19. Music To Spy By
    Mr Mouthpiece
    (David Whitaker)
    (P) 1965 SGC
20. Air
    Remember (David Whitaker version)
    (Nicolas Godin / Jean-Benoît Dunckel
    Jean-Benoît Dunckel
    Jean-Benoît Dunckel, , is a musician best known for being in the electronica duo Air....
    
    ) Ed. Revolvair
    (P) 1998 Source
21. David Whitaker
    Dominique
    (David Whitaker)
    (P) 1973 Reserved rights

Awards

• David Whitaker, nominated in 2001 for the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
  César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
  This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...
  
   with the French movie With a Friend Like Harry (Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien) directed by Dominik Moll.

External links