1. Patrick Doyle was born on 6 April 1953 and is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores.
21 Facts About Patrick Doyle
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Patrick Doyle has scored the films of many renowned directors including Robert Altman, Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, Brian De Palma, Chen Kaige, Amma Asante, Regis Wargnier and Kenneth Branagh.
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Patrick Doyle has been nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA and two Caesars and he won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme, for 'Henry V'.
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Patrick Doyle is a classically trained composer who studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music graduating in 1975, and from which he was made a Fellow in 2001.
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Patrick Doyle began his career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in television as well as film.
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Patrick Doyle joined Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987 as composer and musical director, composing music for plays such as Hamlet, As You Like It, and Look Back in Anger.
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Patrick Doyle has since composed for 14 more Branagh films, including Dead Again, Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, Sleuth, Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express, Artemis Fowl and Death on the Nile.
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In October 1997, shortly after composing for Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Patrick Doyle was diagnosed with leukemia.
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Patrick Doyle managed to write the entire score for the animated fantasy Quest for Camelot in hospital whilst undergoing treatment, and eventually made a full recovery.
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Patrick Doyle collaborated with Mike Newell again on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.
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Patrick Doyle has scored multiple films for celebrated French director Regis Wargnier, including Indochine, Une femme francaise and Est-ouest.
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Pop artists Patrick Doyle has collaborated with include Jarvis Cocker on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as well as Pulp and Tori Amos on Great Expectations.
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Patrick Doyle co-wrote "I find your love" with Nashville-based singer Beth Neilsen Chapman for Calendar Girls, and co-wrote the song "Never Forget" with Kenneth Branagh for Murder on the Orient Express, which was performed by Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Patrick Doyle's work was celebrated in two concerts at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in 2019, both performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Dirk Brosse.
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The first concert was the world's first live performance to film of the music Patrick Doyle composed for Pixar's Brave, which took place at the Glasgow Concert Hall.
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The Syracuse International Film Festival commissioned Patrick Doyle to write a film score for the classic silent movie 'It' in 2012.
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In 2023, Patrick Doyle was asked to compose the Coronation March for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.
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In 2013, Patrick Doyle composed an original concert suite, Impressions of America, released by Varese Sarabande.
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Patrick Doyle recorded a solo piano album in 2015, performing pieces from his film scores; it was released by Varese Sarabande.
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In October 2015, Patrick Doyle received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy during the Gent Film Festival in Belgium.
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In 2018 Patrick Doyle received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland.