After Albert left the Royal Marines he joined Francis, Day and Hunter, a music publishing company as an arranger.
However, he is best known for providing the incidental music for the later ITC series A Man in a Suitcase (1967–68), The Champions (1968–69) and for 14 of the 17 episodes of The Prisoner (1967–68) starring Patrick McGoohan.
Although the series on which Albert did most of his important work had memorable main title scores by others like Ron Grainer and Tony Hatch, he provided cues which represent hundreds of hours of music.
He was asked to arrange it for full orchestra and it was performed in 1983 at the ‘Celebration of Maritime England’ in St Paul's Cathedral and conducted by Sir Charles Groves.
Elms lived for more than 40 years at the family home in the village of Oad Street near Borden, Sittingbourne in Kent, and had three sons, Martin, David, and Jeremy.