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Patrick Doyle composed the film score for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Career[]

Patrick Doyle was born on 6 April, 1953, in Uddingston, South Lansrkshire, Scotland, Great Britain. He studied music at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and graduated in 1975. He is a now a Fellow of the RSAMD. In 1987, Patrick joined the Renaissance Theatre Company as composer and musical director, and enjoyed working with some of the finest directors, as Derek Jacobi, Geraldine McEwan and Dame Judi Dench.

In 1989 director Kenneth Branagh commissioned him to write the film score for Henry V. The song "Non Nobis Domine", from the film, was awarded the 1989 Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme. This led to several more collaborations with Branagh, and Doyle composed the scores for his films, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, Dead Again, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Thor and more.

He has also composed numerous other film scores, including; Donnie Brasco, Carlito's Way, Eragon, Nim's Island, Calendar Girls, Gosford Park, and Sleuth.

Though a composer by trade, Doyle often makes minor cameo appearances in films which he composes for, such as Frankenstein and As You Like It. He also composed the score for, and voiced a minor character in, the Disney/Pixar film Brave.

Personal life[]

In 1997, at age 44, Doyle was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (ACL), a form of blood cancer that kills 85 percent of its sufferers within three years. While he was undergoing chemotherapy, he composed the score for his latest project, Quest For Camelot, and often received hospital visits and care packages from Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, and Timothy Spall, who himself had been diagnosed with the same disease only a few years earlier.[1]

Selective filmography[]

Year Work Award Category Result
1991 Dead Again Golden Globe Best Original Score Nominated
1992 Indochine César Best Music Written for a Film Nominated
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Saturn Best Music Nominated
1995 Sense and Sensibility Academy Best Original Score Nominated
BAFTA Film Best Film Music Nominated
Golden Globe Best Original Score Nominated
1996 Hamlet Academy Best Original Score Nominated
Satellite Best Original Score Nominated
1999 East/West César Best Music Written for a Film Nominated
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary N/A
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Saturn Best Music Nominated
Nanny McPhee N/A
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Thor
2012 Brave Annie Music in an Animated Feature Production Nominated
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit N/A
2017 Murder on the Orient Express
2022 Death on the Nile

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