{{Short description|English-Australian musical composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist |birth_date= {{Birth based on age at death|75|1955|df=y}} |birth_place = England |death_date={{death date and given age|1955|01||75|df=y}} |death_place = England }} '''Alf Lawrence''' or '''Alfred J. Lawrence''' (died 1955) was an English-Australian musical composer who worked extensively in vaudeville, pantomime, revusical, revue and follies, radio and film.

Lawrence was born in England and moved to Australia in 1914. He was heavily involved in radio. He toured New Zealand in 1928.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=31 October 1928 |title=Alf Lawrence Playing Vaudeville in New Zealand |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-589544469 |access-date=24 January 2024 |magazine=Everyones. |publisher=Everyones Ltd |location=Sydney |via=Trove |volume=9 |issue=452 |id=nla.obj-589544469}}</ref>

A 1939 article said "Half the songs you hear over the air have been written by him."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Australasian Radio Relay League. |title=Sydney Man Gets Television Royalty B.B. C. Pays Him For Use Of Years Old Song |date=May 31, 1939 |magazine=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-724582074 |access-date=24 January 2024 |id=nla.obj-724582074 |via=Trove}}</ref> He worked at the ABC for fourteen years under contract.

Lawrence returned to London in 1953 and died two years later, aged 75.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 February 1955 |title=FORMER A.B.C. COMPOSER DIES |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49484845 |access-date=24 January 2024 |work=Northern Standard |location=Northern Territory, Australia |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Select credits== ===Radio musicals=== *''The Weather Box'' (1938)

===Films=== *''The Hayseeds'' (1933) *''Splendid Fellows'' (1934) *''The Flying Doctor'' (1936) *''Rangle River'' (1936)

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==External links== *{{Discogs artist|5747457-Alf-J-Lawrance}} *[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog?q=%22Lawrance%2C+Alf.+J.+%28Alfred+J.%29%22&search_field=author Alf Lawrence] at National Library of Australia

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Alf}} Category:Australian composers Category:Australian musicians Category:1955 deaths Category:Year of birth unknown