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Oh, such a hard question to answer because there are a whole bunch to mention but let me list about 10- JOHN PATRICK SCOTT, LAURIE JOHNSON, LEE HOLDRIDGE- JAMES BERNARD[Outside of Hammer fans who knows him] ALBERT GLASSER, RONALD STEIN,MICHAEL J LEWIS,ARMONDO TROVAJOLI.CARL DAVIS-PHILLIPE SARDE-GABRIAL YARED ETC , ETC ETC
Interesting list Mr. DanTheMan, although I would disagree with you about Monsieur Sarde. He may not have as many fans in the States, but he is known far and wide in Europe and in French speaking countries.
As for messrs SCOTT, HOLDRIDGE, BERNARD, DAVIS, LEWIS AND YARED, I would venture to say that they are hardly underrated, each of them having an impressive career and discography to their name.
When I think of underrated, I think more along the lines of Wilfred Josephs, Douglas Gamley and Elizabeth Lutyens.
But I do get your point. Many composers could pass for neglected around these parts if they've never scored Star Trek or some kind of men wearing tights melodrama. 
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Daniel Licht! Great composer Mr. Deputy.
I have all of his early scores on CD and they are all wonderful listens, in particular HELLRAISER - BLOODLINE. A magnificient work that both pays tribute to the original material and at times (unbelievably) does one better.
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I'll have to add Frederic Talgorn into the mix. Wonderful composer, woefully underutilized. Pick up his melodic LES AGUILES ROUGES while it is still around!
Ron Burbella
Les Aiguilles Rouges? Samples? Sounds intriguing.
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Mar 26, 2013 - 8:49 PM
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ToneRow
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There's many ways one can be underrated: having a body of film scores for which no corresponding soundtrack albums exist, by virtue of never having been attached to an English-language film production, or having a meager discography, having scored "straight" drama instead of specific escapist genres, due to the passage of time (especially the pre-1964 "Golden Age"), plus assorted other reasons like never having had one's name attached to popular mainstream franchises such as James Bond or Star Trek or Star Wars or Batman, etc.
Bearing in mind these multiple reasons for the label underrated, I put forth Spanish composer Luis de Pablo (b. 1930).
De Pablo has scored about 20 documentaries and/or short films (according to IMDB) as well as around 30 feature films [at least 3 of which are early films directed by Carlos Saura (such as THE HUNT, PEPPERMINT FRAPPE, & THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS)].
One of the films he scored - THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - has surfaced onto the Criterion Collection, but otherwise De Pablo remains underrated in just about every sense (except for the contemporary classical music category in which he's had a dozen or so albums of his music released).
There's not even any compilation album of his film music as far as I can detect.
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CHRISTOPHER GORDON
Daybreakers was one fantastic score!
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Johnny Keating who only composed three film scores, all during a 5 year period 1967-1972.
Two of them, Hotel (available via FSM) and Robbery are excellent. Haven't seen/heard the 1972 Innocent Bystanders.
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CHRISTOPHER GORDON
Daybreakers was one fantastic score!
I agree!
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