Belated Knighthood For Composer Ron Goodwin

[billy farmer]

I have read on YouTube that someone is trying to get a belated Knighthood (for his services to cinema music) for the composer Ron Goodwin, i think it would be great if Ron Goodwin was given a belated Knighthood, Ron Goodwin has always been one of my favourite composers, Ron Goodwin composed the music for many of my favourite films including - the four 1960's Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford, Battle Of Britain (1969) and Frenzy (1972), Ron Goodwin also composed the music for many other films including 633 Squadron (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965) and Where Eagles Dare (1969), below is a YouTube Video featuring music from Frenzy and it is below this Video on YouTube where you can also read about someone trying to get a belated Knighthood for Ron Goodwin, for his services to cinema music.



Hopefully Ron Goodwin will receive a belated Knighthood, below you can see some YouTube Videos
featuring some of the great film music composed by Ron Goodwin.

[ShirlGirl]

Don't they mean a posthumous knighthood?

[Mr Magister]

The fact is that I believe except for those who have died in military service they just don't award posthumous knighthoods so this is futile.

[Steve Crook]

They've allowed a few where the recipient has died between it being announced and the award being made. But if you can't go to the palace and kneel before the sovereign then you don't get your K. You need to be dubbed with the sword on your shoulders. It's a totally futile "campaign"

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

They've allowed a few where the recipient has died between it being announced and the award being made. But if you can't go to the palace and kneel before the sovereign then you don't get your K. You need to be dubbed with the sword on your shoulders. It's a totally futile "campaign"

Steve

Stanley Baker is usually credited with a knighthood though he wasn't actually invested at the palace.

[Steve Crook]

Stanley Baker is usually credited with a knighthood though he wasn't actually invested at the palace.

Because he died after it was announced but before his trip to the palace

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

Because he died after it was announced but before his trip to the palace

Steve

Indeed. It's the announcement that's the key thing not the trip to the palace. I wonder what happens if you die after accepting but before the list is published

[Mr Magister]

You don't have to recieve your honour in person to be granted it but people are asked if they will accept. Golfer Henry Cotton accepted a knighthood and then died before the honours list was announced but the honour stood. I read that Joyce Grenfell was offered a Damehood but she died while that offer was in the post so she missed out.

[Steve Crook]

So this campaign to get a K for Ron Goodwin is still futile, whichever way the rules work

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

So this campaign to get a K for Ron Goodwin is still futile, whichever way the rules work

Steve

Yes. You might as well try to get Purcell an OBE

[julian_craster]

or a knighthood for Michael Powell.....Sir David Lean, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Sir Carol Reed, Mr Michael Powell......

[Heinrich]

I'm sure Ron Goodwin's putrefied corpse would be honored to be allowed into the ranks of its ruling class "betters" and the English commoners who already appreciate his music will feel privileged knowing their taste enjoys the approval of the Establishment.

[Steve Crook]

or a knighthood for Michael Powell.....Sir David Lean, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Sir Carol Reed, Mr Michael Powell......

When they made The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Powell & Pressburger were told that if they went ahead with it they wouldn't get any rewards from "the establishment" like knighthoods. But even Churchill in wartime couldn't actually ban them from making it - even though he tried

Steve

[ShirlGirl]

Aren't these people who want to get knighthood for Ron Goodwin only presuming that he would have wanted one? He's not around to ask and for all they know he might have thought knighthoods are a load of old cobblers!

[julian_craster]

When they made The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Powell & Pressburger were told that if they went ahead with it they wouldn't get any rewards from "the establishment" like knighthoods. But even Churchill in wartime couldn't actually ban them from making it - even though he tried


Didn't MP repent for his earlier sins when he made The Queen's Guards - perhaps in expectation of a knighthood ?

You can't get more 'High Tory establishment' than that.....

[CaptainWaggett]

I doubt whether the idea of film directors getting knighthoods (or any other honours) was seriously considered in the 1940s. Although Korda was knighted in 1942 it was for his war service, not his film making.

[Steve Crook]

Didn't MP repent for his earlier sins when he made The Queen's Guards - perhaps in expectation of a knighthood ?

You can't get more 'High Tory establishment' than that.....

Unless you've actually seen The Queen's Guards

Steve

[Steve Crook]

I doubt whether the idea of film directors getting knighthoods (or any other honours) was seriously considered in the 1940s. Although Korda was knighted in 1942 it was for his war service, not his film making.

Who was the first one to get a knighthood just for film-making?

Steve

[julian_craster]

Dame Anna Neagle.....

[Steve Crook]

Dame Anna Neagle.....

But was she damed (female equivalent of knighted) for her film work or her stage work? Or a combination of the two?

Steve