was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards" in 1984) for "Best Musical". His further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and the TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976). Norman worked for several years on his unpublished autobiography, titled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels. James Bond Theme Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Norman received royalty payments for the theme from 1962 on. However, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two different libel actions against Barry's claim he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performed a music piece that he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles the melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places. Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No. Personal life Norman married actress Diana Coupland in 1956. Together, they had a daughter before divorcing in 1975. He later married Rina Caesari in 2000 or 2001. They remained married until his death. He was a worshipper at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. Norman died on 11 July 2022 at a hospital in Slough. He was 94, and suffered from an unspecified short illness prior to his death. Musicals Make Me an Offer (1958) Expresso Bongo (1958) Irma La Douce (1958) The Art of Living (revue, 1960) Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (1961) The Perils of Scobie Prilt (1963) Pinkus (1967) Quick, Quick, Slow (1969) Stand and Deliver (1972) So Who Needs Marriage? (1975) Songbook (1979) Poppy (1982) Pinocchio (1988) References Specific General Audio interview at BBC Wiltshire Bibliography External links Norman at Musical Theatre https://web.archive.org/web/20081206085914/http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/composers/montynorman.html Norman's web site http://www.montynorman.com 1928 births 2022