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Dudley Simpson
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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 year…
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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.
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2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Tales of the Tardis
TV show Music
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2021
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie Original Music Composer
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2017
The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
Movie Orchestrator
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2010
Warriors of Mars
Movie Music
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2004
Oh Mummy!
Movie Music
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1986
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Blake's 7: Aftermath
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Blake's 7: Orac
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Blake's 7: Duel
Movie Original Music Composer
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1985
Oliver Twist
TV show Original Music Composer
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1985
Blake's 7: The Beginning
Movie Original Music Composer
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1985
Titus Andronicus
Movie Conductor
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1985
Love Song
Movie Original Music Composer
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1984
Goodbye Mr Chips
TV show Original Music Composer
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1984
Amy
Movie Music Editor
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1983
The Tragedy of Richard III
Movie Original Music Composer
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1983
Dombey and Son
TV show Music
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1983
Henry VI Part 1
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Stalky & Co
TV show Original Music Composer
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1981
The Winter's Tale
Movie Original Music Composer
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1981
Sense and Sensibility
TV show Original Music Composer
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1980
Hamlet
Movie Original Music Composer
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1980
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
The Legend of King Arthur
TV show Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Movie Original Music Composer
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1979
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
The Lost Boys
TV show Music
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1978
The Lost Boys
Movie Music
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1978
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Movie Original Music Composer
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1978
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Movie Original Music Composer
