Richard Hartley
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- July 28, 1944 (age 82)
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Rocky Horror Show Live
Movie · Music, Original Music Composer
Great Expectations
Movie · Original Music Composer
Murderland
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Flashbacks of a Fool
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lion in Winter
Movie · Original Music Composer
Pete's Meteor
Movie · Original Music Composer
Puckoon
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Martins
Movie · Original Music Composer
When Brendan Met Trudy
Movie · Music
Don Quixote
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mad About Mambo
Movie · Music
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Music
Rogue Trader
Movie · Music, Original Music Composer
All the Little Animals
Movie · Original Music Composer
Curtain Call
Movie · Original Music Composer
Playing God
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Thousand Acres
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Designated Mourner
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Van
Movie · Original Music Composer
Victory
Movie · Music
Stealing Beauty
Movie · Original Music Composer
Flowers of the Forest
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rough Magic
Movie · Music
The Absence of War
Movie · Original Music Composer
An Awfully Big Adventure
Movie · Original Music Composer
Princess Caraboo
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Murder in Mind
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Rector's Wife
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
The Secret Rapture
Movie · Music
Anna Lee: Headcase
Movie · Original Music Composer
Suddenly, Last Summer
Movie · Original Music Composer
Comics
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Railway Station Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Adam Bede
Movie · Music
Running Late
Movie · Music
Midnight's Child
Movie · Music
Afraid of the Dark
Movie · Original Music Composer
Die Kinder
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
Here Is the News
Movie · Music
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dream Baby
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dealers
Movie · Music
Tree of Hands
Movie · Original Music Composer
Metamorphosis
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rules of Engagement
TV · Music · 6 eps
Soursweet
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tumbledown
Movie · Original Music Composer
Consuming Passions
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Impossible Spy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mandela
Movie · Music
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dead Head
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Dance with a Stranger
Movie · Original Music Composer
Parker
Movie · Original Music Composer
Where Did I Come From?
Movie · Music
The Good Father
Movie · Original Music Composer
Blue Money
Movie · Original Music Composer
Screen Two
TV · Original Music Composer · 1 ep
December Flower
Movie · Music
Sheena
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Return of Captain Invincible
Movie · Songs
Party Party
Movie · Music Consultant
Kennedy
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Bad Blood
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Trout
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shock Treatment
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer, Music Arranger, Musician
High Tide
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bad Timing
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lady Vanishes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Penmarric
TV · Original Music Composer · 12 eps
High Fidelity
Movie · Music
Aces High
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Galileo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps