Philip Green was born in 1911 and died late in 1982 in Dublin, following a long illness. He started to learn the piano at the age of seven and began his professional career playing in various orchestras at the age of eighteen. He directed and played piano and harpsichord on 78s with many leading bands as well as lesser-known ensembles. For several years he was a ’house arranger/conductor’ at Decca. From the mid-1940s onwards he was responsible for more than 150 film scores and numerous radio and television music recordings.