Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle

Born: 6 April 1953, Uddingston, Scotland.

Biography:
Scottish composer of high standing, best known for his frequent collaborations with actor/director Kenneth Branagh. Originally, Doyle's original vocation was as an actor. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and began his career as a piano teacher, before first coming to prominence for the music he wrote for the musical-comedy stage show "Glasvegas", which was a popular success at the 1978 Edinburgh Festival. After a mildly successful career acting in film and television (he had a recurring role in the British Saturday morning kids TV show "No.73", was part of a comedy sketch show called "Scotch & Wry", and even had a small role in "Chariots of Fire"), he joined Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987. Although initially employed as both an actor and the company’s musical director, music eventually became his prime focus: he wrote for a number of the company’s stage plays, including the television version of their very successful production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", and eventually scored his first feature movie - Branagh’s "Henry V" - in 1989. Since then, Doyle has gone enjoy a successful career in Hollywood’s upper echelons, having written music Branagh’s films such as "Dead Again" (1991), "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993), "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) and "Hamlet" (1996), as well as critically acclaimed and poplar movies such as "Carlito's Way" (1993), the Oscar-nominated "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), "Donnie Brasco" (1997), "Quest For Camelot" (1998), "Great Expectations" (1998), "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001), "Gosford Park" (2001), “Nanny McPhee” (2005), “Eragon” (2006), and most notably the massively successful fourth installment in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005). Doyle successfully overcame a form of leukaemia in 1998; he lives in London with his wife children, Abigail and Patrick Jr., who has been contributing their own talents to a number of his recent scores.

Reviews:
As You Like It, Bridget Jones's Diary, Calendar Girls, East West, Eragon, Hamlet, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Henry V, Igor, The Last Legion, Love's Labour's Lost, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Nanny McPhee, Needful Things, Nim’s Island, Nouvelle-France, Quest for Camelot, Sense and Sensibility and Sleuth

Filmography:
Igor (2008), Nim’s Island (2008), As You Like It (2007), The Last Legion (2007), Pars Vite et Riviens Tard (2007), Sleuth (2007), Eragon (2006), Jekyll + Hyde (2006), Wah-Wah (2006), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Man to Man (2005), Nanny McPhee (2005), Nouvelle- France (2004), Calendar Girls (2003), The Galindez File (2003), Secondhand Lions (2003), Killing Me Softly (2002), Blow Dry (2001), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Gosford Park (2001), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), East West (1999), Great Expectations (1998), Quest for Camelot (1998), Donnie Brasco (1997), Hamlet (1996), Mrs. Winterbourne (1996), A Little Princess (1995), Sense & Sensibility (1995), Une Femme Française (1995), Exit to Eden (1994), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Carlito's Way (1993), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Needful Things (1993), Indochine (1992), Into the West (1992), L'Échange (1992), Dead Again (1991), Shipwrecked (1990), Henry V (1989), Look Back in Anger (1989).

Highest Grossing Films as at end of 2007 (adjusted for inflation):
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ($320.3m), Bridget Jones’s Diary ($89.5m), Eragon ($80.9m), Sense and Sensibility ($70.3m), Donnie Brasco ($64.6m), Dead Again ($63.9m), Carlito’s Way ($63.2m), Gosford Park ($51.7m), Nanny McPhee ($50.8m), Secondhand Lions ($49.4m)

Awards:
1996 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Dramatic Score - Hamlet
1995 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Dramatic Score - Sense and Sensibility
1995 BAFTA Awards - Nominee, Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - Sense and Sensibility

Links:
Patrick Doyle Archive by Ellen Edgerton

As You Like It Bridget Jones's Diary Calendar Girls Carlito's Way Dead Again Donnie Brasco East West Eragon Exit to Eden Gosford Park Great Expectations Hamlet Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Henry V Igor Indochine Into the West The Last Legion A Little Princess Love's Labour's Lost Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mrs. Winterbbourne Much Ado About Nothing Nanny McPhee Needful Things Nim’s Island Nouvelle-France Pars Vite et Riviens Tard Quest for Camelot Secondhand Lions Sense & Sensibility Shipwrecked Sleuth Une Femme Française Wah-Wah


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