Albert Elms obituary

Composer best known for TV's The PrisonerThe talents of the composer and arranger Albert Elms, who has died aged 89, could be heard on television shows from the 1950s to the 70s, perhaps most memorably on the admired espionage series The Prisoner (1967-68).As musical director and composer, Elms shared the desire of the show's star and creative force, Patrick McGoohan, to confound viewers expecting the conventional. The Prisoner's incidental music featured sly quotations from the nursery rhyme Po...

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