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'''Patrick Doyle''' composed the film score for the [[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|film adaptation]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''.
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'''Patrick Doyle''' composed the film score for {{GOF|FA}}.
   
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
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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.
   
Patrick Doyle was born on the [[6 April]], [[1950s|1953]], in Uddingston, [[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. As well as composing the score for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', he has also composed numerous other film scores, including; ''Donnie Brasco'', ''Carlito's Way, Ergaon'', and ''Nim's Island''.
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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.
   
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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 also had minor cameo appearances in most of Branagh's films, including ''Henry V'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Frankenstein'', ''Dead Again'', and ''As You Like It''. He also contributed his voice to the cast of the Disney/Pixar film ''Brave'', alongside [[Kelly Macdonald]], [[Robbie Coltrane]], and [[Emma Thompson]].
 
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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''.
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==Personal life==
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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.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-489250/It-like-machete-cut-half--How-Harry-Potters-composer-beat-leukaemia.html</ref>
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==Selective filmography==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
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|-
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! Year
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! Work
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! Award
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! Category
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! Result
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|[[1991]]
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|''Dead Again''
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|Golden Globe
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|Best Original Score
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|Nominated
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|-
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|[[1992]]
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|''Indochine''
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|César
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|Best Music Written for a Film
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|Nominated
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|-
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|[[1994]]
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|''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein''
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|Saturn
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|Best Music
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|Nominated
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|-
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|rowspan=3|[[1995]]
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|rowspan=3|''Sense and Sensibility''
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|Academy
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|Best Original Score
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|Nominated
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|-
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|BAFTA Film
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|Best Film Music
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|Nominated
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|-
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|Golden Globe
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|Best Original Score
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|Nominated
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|-
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|rowspan=2|[[1996]]
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|rowspan=2|''Hamlet''
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|Academy
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|Best Original Score
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|Nominated
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|-
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|Satellite
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|Best Original Score
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|Nominated
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|-
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|[[1999]]
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|''East/West''
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|César
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|Best Music Written for a Film
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|Nominated
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|-
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|[[2001]]
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|''Bridget Jones's Diary''
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!colspan="3"|N/A
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|-
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|rowspan=2 |[[2005]]
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|''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''
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|Saturn
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|Best Music
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|Nominated
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|-
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|''Nanny McPhee''
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!rowspan=3 colspan="3"|N/A
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|-
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|rowspan=2 |[[2011]]
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|''Rise of the Planet of the Apes''
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|-
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|''Thor''
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|-
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|[[2012]]
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|''Brave''
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|Annie
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|Music in an Animated Feature Production
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|Nominated
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|-
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|[[2014]]
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|''Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit''
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!rowspan=3 colspan="3"|N/A
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|-
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|[[2017]]
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|''Murder on the Orient Express''
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|-
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|2022
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|''Death on the Nile''
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|}
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==Behind the scenes==
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*Patrick Doyle's daughter [[Abigail Doyle|Abigail]] has been singing professionally since age 11, and performed ''[[Underwater Secrets]]'', the song of the [[Golden egg]] for {{GOF|FA}}.
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*Patrick Doyle scored for the following films, in which he also made minor cameo appearances, directed by [[Gilderoy Lockhart]] actor [[Kenneth Branagh]], who starred alongside [[Sybill Trelawney]] actress [[Emma Thompson]]:
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**''{{w|Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V}}'' ([[1989]]), which also featured [[Robbie Coltrane]] ([[Rubeus Hagrid]]).
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**''{{w|Dead Again}}'' ([[1991]])
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**''{{w|Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film)|Much Ado About Nothing}}'' ([[1993]]), which also featured [[Imelda Staunton]] ([[Dolores Umbridge]]).
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*Doyle scored for the following films directed by [[Mike Newell]], the director of {{GOF|FA}}:
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**''{{w|Into the West (film)|Into the West}}'' ([[1992]]), which also featured [[Brendan Gleeson]] ([[Alastor Moody]]) and [[Jim Norton]] ([[Mr Mason]]).
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**''{{w|Donnie Brasco (film)|Donnie Brasco}}'' ([[1997]]), which also featured [[Johnny Depp]] ([[Gellert Grindelwald]]).
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*Doyle scored for the [[1994]] film ''{{w|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein}}'' and the [[2015]] film ''{{w|Cinderella (2015 Disney film)|Cinderella}}'', which were directed by Kenneth Branagh and featured [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] actress [[Helena Bonham Carter]].
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**Branagh starred in the former in addition to directing it.
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*Doyle scored for the [[1995]] film ''{{w|A Little Princess (1995 film)|A Little Princess}}'' and the [[1998]] film ''{{w|Great Expectations (1998 film)|Great Expectations}}'', which were directed by [[Alfonso Cuarón]], the director of {{POA|FA}}.
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*He scored for the following films, which Kenneth Branagh directed and also starred in:
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**''{{w|Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet}}'' ([[1996]]), which also featured [[Julie Christie]] ([[Rosmerta]]), [[Ray Fearon]] (voice of [[Firenze]]), and [[Timothy Spall]] ([[Peter Pettigrew]]).
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**''{{w|Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost}}'' ([[2000]]), which also featured [[Carmen Ejogo]] ([[Seraphina Picquery]])
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**''{{w|Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit|Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit}}'' ([[2014]])
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**''{{w|Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)|Murder on the Orient Express}}'' ([[2017]]), which also featured Johnny Depp.
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**''{{w|All Is True}}'' ([[2018]])
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**''{{w|Death on the Nile (2022 film)|Death on the Nile}}'' (2022), which also featured [[Dawn French]] ([[Fat Lady]]).
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*He scored for the following films directed by Kenneth Branagh:
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**''{{w|As You Like It (2006 film)|As You Like It}}'' ([[2006]])
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**''{{w|Sleuth (2007 film)|Sleuth}}'' ([[2007]]), which also featured [[Jude Law]] ([[Albus Dumbledore]]).
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**''{{w|Thor (film)|Thor}}'' ([[2011]])
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**''{{w|Artemis Fowl (film)|Artemis Fowl}}'' ([[2020]]), which also featured [[Colin Farrell]] ([[Percival Graves]]).
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*Doyle has scored for various projects which featured several actors and actresses from the ''Harry Potter'' films:
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**Two more films with both Emma Thompson and Imelda Staunton:
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***''{{w|Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility}}'' (1995), which also featured [[Alan Rickman]] ([[Severus Snape]]), [[Gemma Jones]] ([[Poppy Pomfrey]]), [[Robert Hardy]] ([[Cornelius Fudge]]), [[Elizabeth Spriggs]] (Fat Lady).
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***''{{w|Nanny McPhee}}'' ([[2005]]), which also featured [[Kelly Macdonald]] ([[Helena Ravenclaw]]).
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**[[Jim Broadbent]] ([[Horace Slughorn]]) and Gemma Jones in the [[2001]] film ''{{w|Bridget Jones's Diary}}''.
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***It was a Grammy Award nominee for {{w|Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media}}; though Doyle scored for the film, he was not listed as a recipient, two compilation producers were.<ref>[https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/nick-angel/188 Nick Angel | Artist | www.grammy.com]</ref><ref>[https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/kathy-nelson/9576 Kathy Nelson | Artist | www.grammy.com]</ref>
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**Two more films with Kelly Macdonald:
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***''{{w|Gosford Park}}'' (2001), which also featured [[Michael Gambon]] (Albus Dumbledore), [[Maggie Smith]] ([[Minerva McGonagall]]), [[Sophie Thompson]] ([[Mafalda Hopkirk]]), and [[Stephen Fry]] (UK audiobook [[narrator]]).
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***''{{w|Brave (2012 film)|Brave}}'' ([[2012]]), which also featured Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, and [[Julie Walters]] ([[Molly Weasley]]).
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**Julie Walters and [[Ciarán Hinds]] ([[Aberforth Dumbledore]]) in the [[2003]] film ''{{w|Calendar Girls}}''.
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**[[Eddie Izzard]] (voice of [[Lord Voldemort]] in [[The LEGO Batman Movie]]) in the [[2008]] film ''{{w|Igor (film)|Igor}}''.
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**[[Tom Felton]] ([[Draco Malfoy]]) in the 2011 film ''{{w|Rise of the Planet of the Apes}}''.
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==Notes and references==
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*[[wikipedia:Patrick Doyle|Patrick Doyle]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
 
   
 
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Latest revision as of 13:10, 28 November 2021

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

Behind the scenes

Notes and references

External links