The best 'incidental music composers' of "Doctor Who"
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Murray Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA six times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006), Doctor Who (2008) and A Very English Scandal (2019). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the Mozart Prize of the 7th Art by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated five times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television, winning twice.
Murray has worked extensively with writer/director Russell T Davies on projects such as A Very English Scandal (starring Hugh Grant), Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston), Cucumber and Queer as Folk, series 1 and 2. He has also scored the C4 period drama The Devil's Whore, the BBC series The Musketeers, BBC Natural History series Life Story, the crime drama Scott & Bailey and wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 hit series Shameless. More recently Murray scored Lookout Point's upcoming 8-part drama Gentleman Jack for BBC One and HBO.
Between 2005 and 2018, Murray served as musical director for the wildly successful re-imagining of the BBC's Doctor Who. In this capacity, he created a new arrangement of the show's theme (originally composed by Ron Grainer) and composed the score for 10 entire series. Murray also created, arranged and orchestrated three special live concerts for the music from Doctor Who. The first, Doctor Who: A Celebration, was played at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2006; the second, the 2008 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms on 24 July 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London; the third, the 2010 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms hold in 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall again. In March 2010, Murray's Doctor Who soundtrack entered UK radio station Classic FM's Hall of Fame as that year's second highest new entry.
Gold has scored a number of British and American films, including Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz and Mischief Night, directed by Penny Woolcock. Other projects include 2006's film Alien Autopsy and the 2009 drama feature Veronika Decides to Die.
In 2001, his radio play Electricity was given the Imison Award - named after former BBC radio drama script editor Richard Imison - for best new. It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Others of his plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994. Gold also wrote the radio play Kafka: The Musical, broadcast on Easter Sunday 2011 on BBC Radio 3, starring David Tennant. It won the 2013 Tinniswood Award for the Best Original Radio Drama.- Composer
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Geoffrey Burgon was born on 15 July 1941 in Hambledon, Hampshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Life of Brian (1979), The Forsyte Saga (2002) and Longitude (2000). He was married to Jacqueline Kroft and Janice Garwood. He died on 21 September 2010 in London, England, UK.- Music Department
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Malcolm Clarke was born on 17 January 1943. He was a composer, known for Doctor Who (1963), The Glitterball (1977) and Atop the Fourth Wall (2008). He died on 11 December 2003.- Composer
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Tristram Cary was born on 14 May 1925 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Ladykillers (1955), Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960). He was married to Jane Delin and Doris (Dorse) Enid Jukes. He died on 24 April 2008 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.- Music Department
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Dudley Simpson was one of Australia's most accomplished musical exports. He learned piano as a child before serving in the Second World War in New Guinea. He then studied orchestration and composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He became an assistant conductor and pianist at the Borovansky Ballet, later becoming its musical director. In this capacity he met Margot Fonteyn when she visited Australia. He moved to England and became guest conductor for a season at Covent Garden. He progressed to become Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House Orchestra, accompanying the touring section of the Royal Ballet with Fonteyn as principal ballerina.
Simpson moved into composing music for television, which brought his name to its widest audience. He composed incidental music for BBC television's Doctor Who (1963) in the 1960s and became the series' regular composer throughout the 1970s, when the series was at the height of its popularity. He also composed the theme tunes for other popular science-fiction series The Tomorrow People (1973) and Blake's 7 (1978). Simpson left Doctor Who (1963) in 1980 when the new producer, John Nathan-Turner, decided he wanted to use electronic composers for the series. Simpson continued to work in British television in the 1980s before moving back to Australia for his retirement.- Composer
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Paddy Kingsland is known for Shallow Hal (2001), Me, Myself & Irene (2000) and Paranormal Activity 4 (2012).- Composer
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Roger Limb was born in 1941 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a composer, known for Saturn 3 (1980), Look and Read (1967) and Doctor Who (1963).- Music Department
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Dominic Glynn is a familiar name to Doctor Who (1963) fans, being one of the few people to have arranged the theme tune to the classic TV series. His career began in 1986 when John Nathan-Turner employed him to rework the title music that accompanied Colin Baker's second and final season as the Doctor, "The Trial of a Time Lord". Although this was soon superseded by Keff McCulloch's version for the Sylvester McCoy era, Glynn composed incidental music for the series regularly until it was cancelled in 1989 by Peter Cregeen.
The 1990s saw his love of underground dance music result in record releases with Creation Records - famous for leading the Brit Indie scene with bands like Oasis and Primal Scream, and also Rising High Records - a label that was firmly at the forefront of UK techno. He went on to form his own No Bones Records, and throughout the last ten years has DJ'd regularly for The Big Chill. In the early 2000s Dominic scored music for the video games Forsaken and ReVolt.
Live work has included a performance at London's Royal Festival Hall with pedal-steel legend BJ Cole, and the electronica/jazz hybrid project "Cybajaz." His collaborations with video artist collective D-Fuse have resulted in performances in the UK, Germany and Switzerland, together with regular screenings as part of the One Dot Zero digital arts showcases.
Today, as one of Britain's most prolific composers of production music, his work continues to feature in films and TV productions worldwide, as diverse as The Simpsons (1989), American Idol (2002), Red Dwarf (1988) and Dead Like Me (2003) and in movies such as Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000) and Holy Man (1998).
Recent work has included the score to the Brit-crime-thriller Bad Day (2008). He scored a series of supernatural horror shorts starring the likes of Victor Spinetti, Anna Wing, and Clement Freud, and produced by horror legend David McGillivray - all screened at London's Frightfest film festival.
In 2012 his soundtrack music to the radio revival of the famous Blake's 7 (1978) sci-fi series has been broadcast on BBC 4 Extra. Most recently Dominic has had music in BBC2's Episodes (2011) and wrote the theme to C4's Supersize vs Superskinny Kids (2011).