Hubert Bath

Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 1883 – 24 April 1945) was a British film composer, music director, and conductor. His credits include Tudor Rose (1936), A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Millions Like Us (1943).

Biography

Bath was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1883. He sang in the local church choir and in 1899 attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying piano and organ, as well as composition with Frederick Corder. He went on to compose many film scores (including part of the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail in 1929), marches for brass bands, orchestral suites, theatre music and choral works.[1]

In 1924, Bath was named as co-respondent in the divorce case between Colonel Alfred Rawlinson and the actress Jean Aylwin.[2]

His composition Out of the Blue has been used as the theme music of Sports Report since the programme started in 1948. Also well-known is his Cornish Rhapsody, written for, and essential to the plot of, the 1944 film Love Story.

Death

He died in Harefield, Middlesex in 1945, aged 61.

Personal life

His son John Bath (1915–2004) was also a film composer.

Selected filmography

Under the Greenwood Tree (1929)
The Informer (1929)
The Plaything (1929)
Tell England (1931)
His Lordship (1936)
The Luck of the Irish (1936)
Non-Stop New York (1937)
The Great Barrier (1937)

Notes

Philip L. Scowcroft, A First Garland of British Light Music Composers
"Actress's Flat in Chelsea – Composer Friend Cited as Co-Respondent". North Devon Journal. Barnstaple. 15 May 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2012.

External links

Hubert Bath on IMDb

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[1] Philip L. Scowcroft, A First Garland of British Light Music Composers

[2] "Actress's Flat in Chelsea – Composer Friend Cited as Co-Respondent". North Devon Journal. Barnstaple. 15 May 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2012.