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.
Personal Details
Movies (42)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2024
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2024
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2019
The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
Orchestrator (Sound)
2017
Doctor Who and the Shada Man
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2013
Warriors of Mars
Music (Sound)
2010
Oh Mummy!
Music (Sound)
2004
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1986
Titus Andronicus
Conductor (Sound)
1985
Love Song
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1985
Amy
Music Editor (Sound)
1984
The Tragedy of Richard III
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1983
Henry VI Part 1
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1983
The Winter's Tale
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Hamlet
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
The Lost Boys
Music (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: Underworld
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Whose Doctor Who
1977
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
as Conductor (uncredited)
1977
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1977
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1976
TV Shows (8)
Tales of the Tardis
Music (Sound)
2023
Goodbye Mr Chips
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1984
Dombey and Son
Music (Sound)
1983
Stalky & Co
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1982
Sense and Sensibility
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
The Lost Boys
Music (Sound)
1978
Blake's 7
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1978
Target
Main Title Theme Composer (Sound)
1977