Gérard Calvi
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Gérard Calvi (real name: Grégoire Krettly; born July 26, 1922) is a French composer.
Interested in music from an early age, Gerard Calvi's first composing work was for the french production The Patron in 1949. From here he provided music for various French film's most notably Gangster Boss for which he was nominated for the Broadway's 1959 Tony Award for his music.
However he is probably most famous for his work on the three Asterix films: Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.
He also composed the memorable Asterix theme for the first film, which rather unusually was dispanded with by the time the music for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix was composed in 1976.
His most recent work was for the feature film, La Révolution des crabes in 2004.
[edit] External links
- Biography of Gérard Calvi (in French)
- Gérard Calvi at the Internet Movie Database
