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Kenneth Thorne (26 January 1924 – 9 July 2014) was a British television and film score composer.
When Henry Mancini was scoring Blake Edwards's 1968 film The Party with Peter Sellers, Thorne composed the soundtrack to Inspector Clouseau. He also composed the music scores for How I Won the War (1967), The Monkees movie Head (1968), The Magic Christian (1969) and The Ritz (1976). He was also hired for Richard Lester's films Superman II and Superman III with instructions to reuse the themes composed by John Williams from the first film and adapt them for the sequels, also adding some original work. From the 1980s, Ken Thorne mainly focused on his work for TV, working predominantly with director Kevin Connor.
His television work included the theme to the 1964 BBC series R3, and he also scored incidental music for The Persuaders! and The Zoo Gang in the 1970s. His later work included the score for the miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove in 1993.
Thorne also had an unexpected chart hit in 1963 when his cover version of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino's "Theme from The Legion's Last Patrol" ( Concerto Disperato) reached #4 in the UK charts.Warwick, Neal, Brown, Tony & Kutner, Jon The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums 2004 Omnibus Press
As a conductor, orchestral arranger and music coordinator, Thorne also achieved notoriety for his contributions to the English version of Franco Zeffirelli's film Brother Sun, Sister Moon in 1973. American Film Institute Catalogue: Brother Sun Sister Moon - Music Credits on afi.com Brother Sun Sister Moon - Ken Throne conductor and arranger as shown in the credits at the conclusion of the film on archive.org
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