
About
Dudley Simpson
Overview
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
Acting |
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1977 | Whose Doctor Who | Actor | 58 Average |
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1977 | Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang | Actor | Conductor (uncredited) | 59 Average |
Sound |
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2024 | Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2024 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2021 | Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2019 | Doctor Who: The Macra Terror | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
2017 | The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand | Sound | Orchestrator | N/A N/A |
2010 | Warriors of Mars | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
2004 | Oh Mummy! | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
1986 | The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1985 | Titus Andronicus | Sound | Conductor | 58 Average |
1985 | Titus Andronicus | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1985 | Love Song | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
1984 | Amy | Sound | Music Editor | 58 Average |
1983 | The Tragedy of Richard III | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1983 | Dombey and Son | Sound | Music | 68 Fair |
1983 | Henry VI Part 1 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1981 | The Winter's Tale | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1980 | Hamlet | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
1980 | Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: City of Death | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1979 | Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | The Lost Boys | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
1978 | The Lost Boys | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
1978 | Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Doctor Who: Underworld | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1978 | Blake's 7 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 70 Good |
1977 | Doctor Who: The Sun Makers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: The Robots of Death | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1977 | Doctor Who: The Face of Evil | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: The Android Invasion | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: Planet of Evil | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1975 | Madame Bovary | Sound | Original Music Composer | 68 Fair |
1975 | Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: The Ark in Space | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: Robot | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1974 | Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1974 | Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1974 | Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1974 | Doctor Who: The Time Warrior | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1973 | Doctor Who: The Green Death | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1973 | The Legend of Hell House | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
1973 | Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1973 | Doctor Who: Frontier in Space | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1973 | A Little Princess | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
1973 | Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1973 | Doctor Who: The Three Doctors | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1972 | Doctor Who: The Time Monster | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1972 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1972 | Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1971 | Doctor Who: The Dæmons | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1971 | Doctor Who: Colony in Space | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1971 | Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1971 | Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1971 | Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1971 | The Last of the Mohicans | Sound | Music | 68 Fair |
1970 | Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1970 | Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1969 | Doctor Who: The War Games | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
1969 | Doctor Who: The Space Pirates | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1969 | Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1968 | Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1967 | Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1967 | Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1967 | Doctor Who: The Macra Terror | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1967 | Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1966 | The Last Invasion | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
1966 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1965 | Doctor Who: The Chase | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1965 | Doctor Who: The Crusade | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
1964 | Doctor Who: Planet of Giants | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |