Dudley Simpson
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- October 4, 1922
- Died
- November 4, 2017 (aged 95)
- Birthplace
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tales of the Tardis
TV · Music · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie · Original Music Composer
The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
Movie · Orchestrator
Warriors of Mars
Movie · Music
Oh Mummy!
Movie · Music
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Movie · Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Duel
Movie · Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Orac
Movie · Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: Aftermath
Movie · Original Music Composer
Love Song
Movie · Original Music Composer
Titus Andronicus
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Blake's 7: The Beginning
Movie · Original Music Composer
Oliver Twist
TV · Original Music Composer · 12 eps
Amy
Movie · Music Editor, Original Music Composer
Goodbye Mr Chips
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
Henry VI Part 1
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Tragedy of Richard III
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dombey and Son
TV · Music · 10 eps
Stalky & Co
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
The Winter's Tale
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sense and Sensibility
TV · Original Music Composer · 7 eps
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hamlet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: City of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Legend of King Arthur
TV · Original Music Composer · 8 eps
The Lost Boys
Movie · Music
Doctor Who: Underworld
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lost Boys
TV · Music · 3 eps
Blake's 7
TV · Original Music Composer · 52 eps
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Target
TV · Main Title Theme Composer · 17 eps
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Robot
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
Movie · Original Music Composer
Madame Bovary
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
The Venturers
TV · Original Music Composer · 10 eps
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Movie · Original Music Composer
Microbes and Men
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
The Legend of Hell House
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Green Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Little Princess
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
Moonbase 3
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Lay a Ghost
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Witness
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last of the Mohicans
TV · Music · 8 eps
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The War Games
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Portrait of a Lady
TV · Original Music Composer, Conductor · 6 eps
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
Movie · Original Music Composer
Boy Meets Girl
TV · Original Music Composer · 24 eps
The Last Invasion
Movie · Music
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Fastest Draw
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Dead Past
Movie · Original Music Composer
Londoners
TV · Music · 1 ep
Out of the Unknown
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who
TV · Original Music Composer · 219 eps
Moonstrike
TV · Music · 8 eps