Willy Mattes

Willy Mattes (4 January 1916 – 30 July 2002) was an Austrian composer known particularly for the film scores he produced for German cinema. He scored the first two films of the Edgar Wallace series from 1959.^[1] He was married to Margit Symo, with whom he was the father of Eva Mattes.^[2]

• The Wedding Hotel (1944)
• Crime in the Sun (1947)
• The Street (1949)
• Two Stories Up (1950)
• Czardas of Hearts (1951)
• Sensation in San Remo (1951)
• The Csardas Princess (1951)
• Street Serenade (1953)
• Guitars of Love (1954)
• The Beautiful Miller (1954)
• Love Is Just a Fairytale (1955)
• The Happy Village (1955)
• When the Alpine Roses Bloom (1955)
• The Song of Kaprun (1955)
• Your Life Guards (1955)
• The Star of Rio (1955)
• A Thousand Melodies (1956)
• Santa Lucia (1956)
• Fruit Without Love (1956)
• My Brother Joshua (1956)
• As Long as the Roses Bloom (1956)
• The Girl with the Cat's Eyes (1958)
• Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959)
• A Summer You Will Never Forget (1959)
• For Love and Others (1959)
• Nick Knatterton's Adventure (1959)
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960)
• Final Destination: Red Lantern (1960)
• The Crimson Circle (1960)
• Mystery of the Red Jungle (1964)

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berhahn Books, 2005.
• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. Historical Dictionary of German Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

• Willy Mattes at IMDb