Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television, and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A long-time collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Brave, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile.
He has scored the films of many renowned directors, including Robert Altman, Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell, Brian De Palma, Chen Kaige, Amma Asante, Régis Wargnier, and Kenneth Branagh.
Doyle has been nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and two Caesars, and he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme for 'Henry V.'. He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the World Soundtrack Awards and Scottish BAFTA, the PRS Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Music, and received the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for "outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music."
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Known For | Sound |
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Most Rating | 8.706 |
Birthday | 1953-04-06 |
Place of Birth | Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Also Known As | Pat Doyle, |
1998
Witches
10/1
Princess was born into witchcraft, initiated at a very tender age. When she falls in love with Desmond, she ignores the instruction of the witch counc...
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Witches
1989
Henry V
7.2/374
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
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Henry V
2006
As You Like It
5.7/87
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out ag...
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As You Like It
2012
Sir Billi
3.4/17
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to...
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Sir Billi
2012
Brave
7/13398
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter a...
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Brave
1993
Jealousy
0/0
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...
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Jealousy
1978
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
0/0
A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.
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Jackie McCafferty's Romance
2014
Effie Gray
5.9/183
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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Effie Gray
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
7.051/39
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...
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In the Bleak Midwinter
2017
Score: A Film Music Documentary
7.128/113
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on t...
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Score: A Film Music Documentary
1993
Much Ado About Nothing
6.934/732
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to...
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Much Ado About Nothing
1981
Chariots of Fire
6.8/918
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
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Chariots of Fire
1988
Down Where the Buffalo Go
0/0
Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to...
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