British film composer and conductor Mark Thomas died in
London on July 16, 2023, after a long illness. He was 67. Mark was born in Penelawdd,
Wales in 1956 and had a long successful musical career. After studying music
composition and orchestration at university, he played violin with the London
Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, then joined the Royal
Ballet Orchestra as co-leader and was invited to join the original orchestra
for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom Of The Opera” and then went on to work in
the recording studio under the batons of Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John
Barry, Michael Kamen and John Williams. During this career, Mark has
successfully scored over sixty feature films including “Dog Soldiers”, “Agent
Cody Banks II”, the “Magic Roundabout Movie”, “Shadows in the Sun”, “Greyfriars
Bobby” and the dark horror feature “Wilderness, Flicka 3” and “Marley And Me 2”.
More recent scoring assignments include the feature films “Zoo”, “Last Summer”
and the hilarious counterculture romp “La Cha Cha”. Thomas scored two
Euro-westerns: 2001’s “The Meeksville Ghost” and 2002’s “Hooded Angels”.
I have not seen "The Meeksville Ghost". What is it about? It sounds like a great Western movie.
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