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Richard Hartley
Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. In the 1970s he began a long associatio…
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Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for The Rocky Horror Show. He went on to arrange the score for the London stage and film adaptation (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included Galileo (1975), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979). In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp, and TV movie productions, such as Kennedy (1983), Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985), Mandela (1987) and Rules of Engagement (1989). However he also composed for film, including the Nicolas Roeg film Bad Timing (1980), Bad Blood (1982), The Trout (1982), The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), Sheena (1984) (for which Hartley was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), Dance with a Stranger (1985), Parker (1985), The Good Father (1985), Consuming Passions (1988) and Tree of Hands (1989). However, one of his lesser known works is the music for The Fifth Dimension, a dark ride at Chessington World of Adventures.
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2025
Sane Inside Insanity
Movie Self – Composer
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2015
Rocky Horror Show Live
Movie Music
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2012
Great Expectations
Movie Original Music Composer
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2009
Murderland
TV show Original Music Composer
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2008
Flashbacks of a Fool
Movie Original Music Composer
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2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie Original Music Composer
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2003
The Lion in Winter
Movie Original Music Composer
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2002
Pete's Meteor
Movie Original Music Composer
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2002
Puckoon
Movie Original Music Composer
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2001
The Martins
Movie Original Music Composer
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2000
When Brendan Met Trudy
Movie Music
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2000
Don Quixote
Movie Original Music Composer
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2000
Mad About Mambo
Movie Music
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1999
All the Little Animals
Movie Original Music Composer
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1999
Rogue Trader
Movie Music
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1999
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Music
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1998
Curtain Call
Movie Original Music Composer
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1997
Playing God
Movie Original Music Composer
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1997
A Thousand Acres
Movie Original Music Composer
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1997
The Designated Mourner
Movie Original Music Composer
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1996
Victory
Movie Music
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1996
The Van
Movie Original Music Composer
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1996
Flowers of the Forest
Movie Original Music Composer
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1996
Stealing Beauty
Movie Original Music Composer
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1995
Rough Magic
Movie Music
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1995
The Absence of War
Movie Original Music Composer
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1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
Movie Original Music Composer
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1994
Murder in Mind
Movie Original Music Composer
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1994
Princess Caraboo
Movie Original Music Composer
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1993
The Secret Rapture
Movie Music
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1993
Comics
TV show Original Music Composer
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1993
Anna Lee: Headcase
Movie Original Music Composer
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1993
Suddenly, Last Summer
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
The Railway Station Man
Movie Original Music Composer
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1992
Running Late
Movie Music
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1992
Midnight's Child
Movie Music
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1992
Adam Bede
Movie Music
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1992
Afraid of the Dark
Movie Original Music Composer
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1990
Die Kinder
TV show Original Music Composer
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1989
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Movie Original Music Composer
