James Bernard

James Bernard was a British film composer, particularly associated with horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions. Starting with "The Quatermass Xperiment", he scored such classic films as "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Dracula". He also occasionally scored non-Hammer films including "Windom's Way" (1957) and "Torture Garden" (1967). Bernard and his partner Paul Dehn (ex-MI6 WWII spy) won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture Story for "Seven Days to Noon". Bernard also served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.