Biography

Isidore Godfrey(1900-1977)

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Isidore Godfrey joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1925, leaving in 1968 by which time he was the company's principal conductor and musical director. He was married to two members of the company. Firstly to soprano chorister Marguerite Kynaston, and later to soprano (later contralto) principal Ann Drummond-Grant. He conducted the orchestras on many Gilbert and Sullivan/D'Oyly Carte recordings for HMV and Decca, many of which are still available on CD.

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Known for

Never Let Me Go

7.1

Soundtrack("Overture" from 'Mikado')

2010

The Good Shepherd

6.7

Soundtrack("H.M.S. Pinafore: Act 1: Hail! Men O'War's Men... I'm Called Little Buttercup")

2006

Daredevil

8.6

TV Series

Soundtrack("The Pirates of Penzance: 1. Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry")

The Mikado

7.3

Music Department

1967

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Music Department

The Mikado
7.3
- musical director
- 1967
Patience
TV Movie
- conductor
- 1965
Omnibus
8.2
TV Series
- conductor (segment "Scenes from The Pirates of Penzance")
- 1955

Soundtrack

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
7.3
- performer: "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General (The Pirates of Penzance/Act 1)"
- 2023
Daredevil
8.6
TV Series
- performer: "The Pirates of Penzance: 1. Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry"
- 2015
Never Let Me Go
7.1
- performer: "Overture" from 'Mikado'
- 2010
The Good Shepherd
6.7
- performer: "H.M.S. Pinafore: Act 1: Hail! Men O'War's Men... I'm Called Little Buttercup"
- 2006
Ready to Wear
5.2
- performer: "Excerpts from The Pirates of Penzance"
- 1994

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Born
- September 27, 1900
- Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
Died
- September 12, 1977
- Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
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He conducted the "D'Olyly Carte Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company," of London, England in repertory at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Darrell Fancourt, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, Brenda Bennett, Sylvia Cecil, Ann Drummond-Grant, Marjorie Eyre, Evelyn Gardiner, Elizabeth Nickell-Lean, John Dean, Derek Oldham, Leslie Rands, Frank Steward, Robert Wilson, and Richard Walker in the cast. W.S. Gilbert was lyricist. Arthur Sullivan was composer. Charles Ricketts and William Nicholson were set designers. George Sheringham and Percy Anderson were costume designers.