- British wartime fighter pilot Douglas Bader, the subject of "Reach for the Sky" - scored by Addison - was his brother-in-law.
- His most lucrative composition was his popular theme music for the TV series "Murder She Wrote", which he often referred to as his "old-age pension".
- The son of a British army colonel, he was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying composition, clarinet, oboe and piano.
- He did not collect his "Tom Jones" Oscar in person as his son was born in England on the same evening.
- He was a soldier in XXX Corps, the British tank force that drove north through Holland during "Operation Market Garden", commencing Sept. 17, 1944. He wrote the music-score for A Bridge Too Far (1977), which depicted "Operation Market Garden", as a tribute to his fellow tankers of XXX Corps.
- Among his classical compositions are chamber works, a ballet ("Carte Blanche"), a concerto for trumpet, strings and percussion, a musical revue ("Cranks") and a Bassoon Concertina.
- In the 1950's, in addition to his film work, he orchestrated and composed incidental music for leading English playwrights (including John Osborne) at the Royal Court Theatre. He also scored Olivier's staging of "Hamlet" at the National Theatre.
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