Dudley Simpson
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 4, 1922
Day of Death: November 4, 2017 (95 years old)
Place of Birth: Melbourne, 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.
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The Lost Boys
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Doctor Who: Underworld
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
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Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
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Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
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Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1977
Actor Conductor (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
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Whose Doctor Who
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Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
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Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
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Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
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Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
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Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
1976
1975
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Doctor Who: Robot
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Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
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Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
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Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
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Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
1974
1973
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The Legend of Hell House
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
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Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
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Doctor Who: The Green Death
