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Dudley Simpson

Dudley Simpson

1922–2017 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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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.

Sound 105

2020s

  1. 2024

    Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

    Original Music Composer

  2. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

    Original Music Composer

  3. 2023

    Tales of the Tardis

    Music

  4. 2021

    Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

2010s

  1. 2019

    Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Original Music Composer

  2. 2017

    The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand

    Orchestrator

  3. 2010

    Warriors of Mars

    Music

2000s

  1. 2004

    Oh Mummy!

    Music

1980s

  1. 1986

    The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

    Original Music Composer

  2. Blake's 7: Aftermath

    Original Music Composer

  3. Blake's 7: Duel

    Original Music Composer

  4. Blake's 7: Orac

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1985

    Oliver Twist

    Original Music Composer

  6. Blake's 7: The Beginning

    Original Music Composer

  7. Titus Andronicus

    Conductor, Original Music Composer

  8. 1984

    Goodbye Mr Chips

    Original Music Composer

  9. Amy

    Music Editor, Original Music Composer

  10. 1983

    The Tragedy of Richard III

    Original Music Composer

  11. Dombey and Son

    Music

  12. Henry VI Part 1

    Original Music Composer

  13. 1981

    The Winter's Tale

    Original Music Composer

  14. Sense and Sensibility

    Original Music Composer

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  15. 1980

    Hamlet

    Original Music Composer

  16. Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

    Original Music Composer

1970s

  1. 1979

    Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

    Original Music Composer

  2. Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

    Original Music Composer

  3. Doctor Who: City of Death

    Original Music Composer

  4. The Legend of King Arthur

    Original Music Composer

  5. Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

  6. Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

    Original Music Composer

  7. Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

    Original Music Composer

  8. 1978

    Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

    Original Music Composer

  9. Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

    Original Music Composer

  10. Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

    Original Music Composer

  11. The Lost Boys

    Music

  12. The Lost Boys

    Music

  13. Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

    Original Music Composer

  14. Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

    Original Music Composer

  15. Doctor Who: Underworld

    Original Music Composer

  16. Blake's 7

    Original Music Composer

    78
  17. 1977

    Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

    Original Music Composer

  18. Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

    Original Music Composer

  19. Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

    Original Music Composer

  20. Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

    Original Music Composer

  21. Target

    Main Title Theme Composer

  22. Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

    Original Music Composer

  23. Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

    Original Music Composer

  24. Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

    Original Music Composer

  25. 1976

    Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

    Original Music Composer

  26. Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

    Original Music Composer

  27. Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

    Original Music Composer

  28. Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

    Original Music Composer

  29. 1975

    Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

    Original Music Composer

  30. Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

    Original Music Composer

  31. Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

    Original Music Composer

  32. Madame Bovary

    Original Music Composer

  33. Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

  34. Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

    Original Music Composer

  35. Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

    Original Music Composer

  36. Doctor Who: Robot

    Original Music Composer

  37. The Venturers

    Original Music Composer

  38. 1974

    Microbes and Men

    Original Music Composer

  39. Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

    Original Music Composer

  40. Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

    Original Music Composer

  41. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

    Original Music Composer

  42. Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

    Original Music Composer

  43. 1973

    Moonbase 3

    Original Music Composer

  44. Doctor Who: The Green Death

    Original Music Composer

  45. The Legend of Hell House

    Original Music Composer

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  46. Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

  47. Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

    Original Music Composer

  48. Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

    Original Music Composer

  49. Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

    Original Music Composer

  50. 1972

    Doctor Who: The Time Monster

    Original Music Composer

  51. Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

    Original Music Composer

  52. Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

  53. 1971

    Doctor Who: The Dæmons

    Original Music Composer

  54. The Last Witness

    Original Music Composer

  55. Doctor Who: Colony in Space

    Original Music Composer

  56. To Lay a Ghost

    Original Music Composer

  57. Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

    Original Music Composer

  58. Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

    Original Music Composer

  59. Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

    Original Music Composer

  60. The Last of the Mohicans

    Music

  61. 1970

    Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

    Original Music Composer

  62. Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

    Original Music Composer

1960s

  1. 1969

    Doctor Who: The War Games

    Original Music Composer

  2. Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

    Original Music Composer

  3. Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

    Original Music Composer

  4. 1968

    Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

    Original Music Composer

  5. The Portrait of a Lady

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  6. 1967

    Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

    Original Music Composer

  7. Boy Meets Girl

    Original Music Composer

  8. Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Original Music Composer

  9. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Original Music Composer

  10. Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

    Original Music Composer

  11. 1966

    The Fastest Draw

    Original Music Composer

  12. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

    Original Music Composer

  13. 1965

    The Dead Past

    Original Music Composer

  14. Out of the Unknown

    Original Music Composer

  15. Doctor Who: The Chase

    Original Music Composer

  16. Londoners

    Music

  17. Doctor Who: The Crusade

    Original Music Composer

  18. 1964

    Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

    Original Music Composer

  19. 1963

    Doctor Who

    Original Music Composer

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Acted in 2

1970s

  1. 1977

    Whose Doctor Who

    Movie

  2. Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

    Conductor (uncredited)