About

Known credits:
89
Birthday:
1922-10-04
Place of birth:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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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

1977 Whose Doctor Who Actor 58
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1977 Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Actor Conductor (uncredited) 59
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Sound

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