Dock Mathieson | |
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| Born | John Davie Mathieson 20 May 1914 Stirling, Scotland |
| Died | 3 December 1985 (aged 71) Charlbury, Oxfordshire |
John Davie ("Dock") Mathieson (20 May 1914 – 3 December 1985) was a Scottish musician. In between his early and late careers as a teacher, he was a musical director for British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He was instrumental in securing Ralph Vaughan Williams's score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, which the composer later reworked as the Sinfonia antartica. Other films on which Mathieson worked included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) and The Ladykillers (1955).