Michel Magne
Compositore, Attore
20 marzo 1930 — 19 dicembre 1984 (54 anni)
Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer.
He was the fifth child in a family of eight. As young as age five, he was intrigued by his parents' piano. The Lisieux cathedral’s organist taught him to play keyboards, and soon he played the harmonium during Sunday services. At age nine he found his parents' Wagner discs, and thereafter would often quote Wagner in his works.
He then studied music at the French: Caen Conservatory, in Caen, France. By age 16 he had written an oratorio and a piano concerto. In 1946, he left Caen to attend the Paris Conservatory, where he had lessons by Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen.
He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for adapting the Jackie Gleason score to film Gigot. He also scored Barbarella and a series of OSS 117 films.
In 1962, he released the studio album Tropical Fantasy.
Magne wrote some songs with lyrics by Françoise Sagan for Juliette Gréco and provided orchestral accompaniment.
In 1962, he purchased the Château d'Hérouville, near Pontoise, and converted it into a residential recording studio in 1969, known as Studio d'enregistrement Michel Magne, which through the 1970s was used by a series of artists such as Elton John (at his Honky Château), Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, and the Bee Gees among many others.
In the 1970's, Jean-Claude Petit scored Magne's films, without due credit.
In 1972, he married Marie-Claude, née Calvet, having met her in 1970, near Hérouville while she was hitch-hiking as a schoolgirl. The couple moved to the south of France in 1974.
Magne committed suicide in 1984, in a hotel room.
Source: Article "Michel Magne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
He was the fifth child in a family of eight. As young as age five, he was intrigued by his parents' piano. The Lisieux cathedral’s organist taught him to play keyboards, and soon he played the harmonium during Sunday services. At age nine he found his parents' Wagner discs, and thereafter would often quote Wagner in his works.
He then studied music at the French: Caen Conservatory, in Caen, France. By age 16 he had written an oratorio and a piano concerto. In 1946, he left Caen to attend the Paris Conservatory, where he had lessons by Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen.
He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for adapting the Jackie Gleason score to film Gigot. He also scored Barbarella and a series of OSS 117 films.
In 1962, he released the studio album Tropical Fantasy.
Magne wrote some songs with lyrics by Françoise Sagan for Juliette Gréco and provided orchestral accompaniment.
In 1962, he purchased the Château d'Hérouville, near Pontoise, and converted it into a residential recording studio in 1969, known as Studio d'enregistrement Michel Magne, which through the 1970s was used by a series of artists such as Elton John (at his Honky Château), Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, and the Bee Gees among many others.
In the 1970's, Jean-Claude Petit scored Magne's films, without due credit.
In 1972, he married Marie-Claude, née Calvet, having met her in 1970, near Hérouville while she was hitch-hiking as a schoolgirl. The couple moved to the south of France in 1974.
Magne committed suicide in 1984, in a hotel room.
Source: Article "Michel Magne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Film e Serie su Plex
Filmografia
| 2010 | The Box of the Century · as Composer |
| 1984 | New Year's Eve at Bob's · as Composer |
| 1984 | Emmanuelle IV · as Original Music Composer |
| 1983 | Surprise Party · as Composer |
| 1983 | L'indic · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | S.A.S. San Salvador · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Les Miserables · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1982 | Le transfuge · as Original Music Composer |
| 1978 | Viol, la grande peur · as Original Music Composer |
| 1976 | A Young Emmanuelle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1974 | Les faucheurs de marguerites · as Composer |
| 1974 | Chinese in Paris · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Le complot · as Composer |
| 1973 | Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Me, I Want to Have Dough · as Original Music Composer |
| 1972 | Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful · as Original Music Composer |
| 1971 | Four Nights of a Dreamer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | Cold Sweat · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1970 | Safety Catch · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Les étrangers · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | Catherine · as Composer |
| 1968 | The Sergeant · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Return of Monte Cristo · as Composer |
| 1968 | The Bastard · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | Angelique and the Sultan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Untamable Angelique · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Sorrel Flower · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Johnny Banco · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | The Looters · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Two Weeks in September · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Shock Troops · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1966 | Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 · as Composer |
| 1966 | To Skin a Spy · as Composer |
| 1966 | Brigade Anti Gangs · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Une femme en blanc se révolte · as Composer |
| 1966 | Angelique and the King · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Galia · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Fantomas Unleashed · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1965 | The Sleeping Car Murder · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Coplan FX 18 casse tout · as Composer |
| 1965 | Mission spéciale à Caracas · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Merveilleuse Angélique · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | OSS 117: Mission for a Killer · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | A Woman in White · as Composer |
| 1965 | The Gentleman from Cocody · as Original Music Composer |
| 1965 | Crime on a Summer Morning · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The Great Spy Chase · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Angélique · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Fantomas · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1964 | Cyrano et d'Artagnan · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Circle of Love · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Male Hunt · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | The Monocle · as Original Music Composer |
| 1964 | Les gros bras · as Composer |
| 1964 | Shadow of Evil · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1963 | Des frissons partout · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Crooks in Clover · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Méfiez-vous, mesdames! · as Composer |
| 1963 | Germinal · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Symphonie pour un massacre · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Of Flesh and Blood · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | OSS 117 se déchaîne · as Original Music ComposerSu Plex |
| 1963 | Les femmes d'abord · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Any Number Can Win · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Vice and Virtue · as Original Music Composer |
| 1963 | Who Stole the Body? · as Composer |
| 1963 | Abel Gance, hier et demain · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | The Deadly Decoy · as Composer |
| 1962 | Love on a Pillow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | A Monkey in Winter · as Original Music Composer |
| 1962 | Rodolphe Bresdin · as Composer |
| 1961 | My Baby Is Black! · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | The Fruit Is Ripe · as Composer |
| 1959 | The Price of Flesh · as Composer |
| 1973 | Me, I Want to Have Dough · as Un Vicaire |
| 1972 | Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful · as Un Membre De L'équipe De Radio-Plus |
| 1963 | Any Number Can Win · as Conductor Of The "palm Beach" (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Cadet Rousselle · as Self |
| 1962 | The Devil and the Ten Commandments · as Music Director |