Alfred John Ellory (18 June 1920, Cornwall – 5 July 2009) was a British musician best known for playing flute on several of the James Bond films in the 1960s.
Ellory won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a teenager, where he studied with Robert Murchie.[1]
Ellory was a keen exponent of alto and bass flute, instruments. Ellory played on some of the Bond films' scores during their heyday with Sean Connery in the 1960s.
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^"Births, marriages and obituaries" (PDF). Upbeat Autumn 2009. (PDF) from the original on 9 November 2011.
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