Allan Gray
Allan Gray, a native Josef Zmigrod, ( born February 23, 1902 in Tarnów, Austria - Hungary, † September 10, 1973 in Amersham, UK ) was a composer österreichischstämmiger in Germany and the UK.
Life
Gray lived and studied in Berlin, among others, during the 1920s with Arnold Schoenberg. His stage name he chose as a tribute to Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. He composed music for Max Reinhardt's performances, writing for a large number of musical revues and radio comedies. He set to music as a composer of Trude Hesterberg 's " Wilder stage" and the cabaret " The Ramp" among other texts by Erich Kästner, Kurt Tucholsky, Ringelnatz, Marcellus Schiffer and wrote songs for Werner Finck's cabaret " The Catacomb ". Early thirties, he began to work for the film.
Gray left Germany after the Nazi seizure of power and settled in the English Amersham. He composed the incidental music for three Shakespeare productions at the Arts Theatre London. 1940/41, he was interned on the Isle of Man. Gray worked for London Films and later for the producers, directors and screenwriters Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Overall, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb ) lists nearly 50 films with his music, including such well-known films such as Emil and the Detectives ( as Allan Grey ), Berlin - Alexanderplatz (both 1931) and The African Queen ( 1951).
His best-known composition is the song Fly With Me did not take up the sun with the text by Walter Reisch, the Hans Albers answers for the film FP1 on July 7, 1932. The song has since been played by many other singers and music groups, used among others in the 1980s by the band Extra wide and scooters in the title " I'm Your Pusher ".