Dudley Simpson

Known for SoundBorn 1922-10-04Died 2017-11-04Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Oh Mummy: Sutekh's Story

Doctor Who: The War Games

The Winter's Tale

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

Blake's 7: The Beginning

Doctor Who: City of Death

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

Goodbye Mr Chips

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

Amy

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

Doctor Who: The Green Death

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

The Tragedy of Richard III

The Lost Boys

Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

A Little Princess

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

The Dead Past

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

Henry VI Part 1

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

Doctor Who: The Dæmons

The Legend of King Arthur

The Lost Boys

Titus Andronicus

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

Blake's 7