Biography
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.
Sound 58
2000s
- 2008
Fantomas Demasque
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1980s
- 1984
- 1983
The Informer
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S.A.S. San Salvador
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- 1982
1970s
- 1978
Rape
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- 1976
Nea
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- 1974
Chinese In Paris
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- 1973
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
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- 1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
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Four Nights of a Dreamer
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- 1970
Safety Catch
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1960s
- 1969
- 1968
The Sergeant
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The Bastard
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- 1967
Untamable Angelique
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Sorrel Flower
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Johnny Banco
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Two Weeks in September
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Shock Troops
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- 1966
Brigade Anti Gangs
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Galia
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- 1965
The Sleeping Car Murders
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
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Mission to Caracas
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Husband for Sale
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
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Ivory Coast Adventure
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Crime on a Summer Morning
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- 1964
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
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Circle of Love
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Male Hunt
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
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- 1963
Crooks in Clover
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Germinal
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Symphony for a Massacre
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Ladies First
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Any Number Can Win
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Vice and Virtue
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Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
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- 1962
Love on a Pillow
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- 1961
My Baby Is Black!
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Acted in 2
1970s
- 1974
Les Musiciens de la pellicule
lui-même · 1 episode
1960s
- 1963
Any Number Can Win
Conductor of the "Palm Beach" (uncredited)
Appearances3
2000s
- 2009
Michel Magne, le Fantaisiste Pop
Self
1970s
- 1971
Cadet Rousselle
Self · 1 episode
1950s
- 1959
