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Known credits:
75
Birthday:
1944-07-28
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Richard Hartley

Overview

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

Acting

2025 The Rocky Horror Phenomenon Actor Self – Composer N/A
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Sound

2015 Rocky Horror Show Live Sound Music 59
Average
2015 Rocky Horror Show Live Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2012 Great Expectations Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2008 Flashbacks of a Fool Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
2003 The Lion in Winter Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2002 Pete's Meteor Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2001 The Martins Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2000 When Brendan Met Trudy Sound Music 58
Average
2000 Don Quixote Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
2000 Mad About Mambo Sound Music 58
Average
1999 All the Little Animals Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1999 Rogue Trader Sound Music 58
Average
1999 Alice in Wonderland Sound Music 60
Fair
1998 Curtain Call Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1997 Playing God Sound Original Music Composer 57
Average
1997 A Thousand Acres Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1997 The Designated Mourner Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1996 Victory Sound Music 58
Average
1996 The Van Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1996 Stealing Beauty Sound Original Music Composer 63
Fair
1995 Rough Magic Sound Music 58
Average
1995 The Absence of War Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1995 An Awfully Big Adventure Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1994 Murder in Mind Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1994 Princess Caraboo Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1993 The Secret Rapture Sound Music 58
Average
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1993 Suddenly, Last Summer Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1992 The Railway Station Man Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1992 Running Late Sound Music N/A
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1992 Midnight's Child Sound Music 58
Average
1992 Adam Bede Sound Music 59
Average
1991 Afraid of the Dark Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1989 Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1989 Dealers Sound Music 58
Average
1989 Rules of Engagement Sound Music 68
Fair
1989 Dream Baby Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1989 Tree of Hands Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1989 Here Is the News Sound Music N/A
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1988 Tumbledown Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1988 Soursweet Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1988 Consuming Passions Sound Music 58
Average
1987 The Impossible Spy Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1987 Mandela Sound Music 58
Average
1987 Metamorphosis Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1986 Doctor Who: Mindwarp Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1986 Dead Head Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
1985 The Good Father Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1985 Where Did I Come From? Sound Music 58
Average
1985 Parker Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1985 Dance with a Stranger Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1984 December Flower Sound Music N/A
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1984 Sheena Sound Conductor 58
Average
1984 Sheena Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1983 Kennedy Sound Original Music Composer 68
Fair
1983 The Return of Captain Invincible Sound Songs 58
Average
1982 Bad Blood Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1982 The Trout Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1981 Shock Treatment Sound Musician 58
Average
1981 Shock Treatment Sound Songs 58
Average
1981 Shock Treatment Sound Music 58
Average
1981 Shock Treatment Sound Music Arranger 58
Average
1981 Shock Treatment Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1980 High Tide Sound Original Music Composer 59
Average
1980 Bad Timing Sound Original Music Composer 60
Fair
1979 The Lady Vanishes Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1976 Aces High Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1976 High Fidelity Sound Music N/A
N/A
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sound Songs 72
Good
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sound Original Music Composer 72
Good
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman Sound Conductor 58
Average
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average
1975 Galileo Sound Original Music Composer 58
Average