Richard Hartley

Richard Hartley

Known For: Sound

Date Of Birth:1944-07-28

Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for The Rocky Horror Show. He went on to arrange the score for the London stage and film adaptation (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included Galileo (1975), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979). In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp, and TV movie productions, such as Kennedy (1983), Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985), Mandela (1987) and Rules of Engagement (1989). However he also composed for film, including the Nicolas Roeg film Bad Timing (1980), Bad Blood (1982), The Trout (1982), The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), Sheena (1984) (for which Hartley was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), Dance with a Stranger (1985), Parker (1985), The Good Father (1985), Consuming Passions (1988) and Tree of Hands (1989). However, one of his lesser known works is the music for The Fifth Dimension, a dark ride at Chessington World of Adventures.

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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Lady Vanishes
The Van
Playing God
The Romantic Englishwoman
Bad Blood
Aces High
The Impossible Spy
Victory
December Flower
La Truite
When Brendan Met Trudy
Here Is the News
Soursweet
The Railway Station Man
The Romantic Englishwoman
Dance with a Stranger
Rocky Horror Show Live
Adam Bede
High Tide
Don Quixote
Rough Magic
Running Late
Alice in Wonderland
Midnight's Child
Great Expectations
The Return of Captain Invincible
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shock Treatment
Parker
The Absence of War
Flashbacks of a Fool
The Lion in Winter
The Martins
An Awfully Big Adventure
Bad Timing
Shock Treatment
Tumbledown
A Thousand Acres
Princess Caraboo
Rocky Horror Show Live
Dream Baby
Murder in Mind
Stealing Beauty
The Designated Mourner
Dealers
Suddenly, Last Summer
Afraid of the Dark
Where Did I Come From?
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment
Sheena
Sheena
Galileo
Mad About Mambo
Rogue Trader
The Good Father
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
High Fidelity
Tree of Hands
All the Little Animals
Pete's Meteor
Metamorphosis
Consuming Passions
Curtain Call
Mandela