Known For
Sound
Born
Oct 04, 1922
Died
Nov 04, 2017
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Credits
109 titles
Dudley Simpson
Biography
Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years and worked as a composer on British television. He worked on the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. When Simpson died aged 95 in 2017, The Guardian wrote that he was "at his most prolific as the creator of incidental music for Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to 62 stories over almost 300 episodes – more than any other composer." Among his television work was the music for Moonstrike (1963), theme music for The Last of the Mohicans (1971), theme music for The Brothers (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), The Ascent of Man (1973) and Blake's 7 (1978). He also composed music for several plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Known For
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Original Music Composer
Tales of the Tardis
Music
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Original Music Composer
The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
Orchestrator
Warriors of Mars
Music
Oh Mummy!
Music
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Aftermath
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Orac
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Duel
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: The Beginning
Original Music Composer
Titus Andronicus
Conductor
Love Song
Original Music Composer
Goodbye Mr Chips
Original Music Composer
Amy
Music Editor
The Tragedy of Richard III
Original Music Composer
Dombey and Son
Music
Henry VI Part 1
Original Music Composer
Stalky & Co
Original Music Composer
The Winter's Tale
Original Music Composer
Sense and Sensibility
Original Music Composer
Hamlet
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: City of Death
Original Music Composer
The Legend of King Arthur
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Original Music Composer
The Lost Boys
Music
The Lost Boys
Music
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Underworld
Original Music Composer
Blake's 7
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
Original Music Composer
Target
Main Title Theme Composer
Whose Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Conductor (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Original Music Composer