Richard Robbins obituary

Composer who scored nearly every Merchant Ivory film from The Europeans onwards and was an integral part of the brandThe Guinness Book of Records notes that the 44-year collaboration between the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the American director James Ivory was the longest in the history of cinema. They might equally have added the screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who joined the duo from the start. And a member of Merchant Ivory Productions for almost as long was the composer Richard Ro...

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