George Fenton
Sound1949Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Biography
George Richard Ian Howe Fenton (born October 19, 1949) is an English composer primarily known for writing music for film and television. He has had longstanding collaborations with many directors including Ken Loach, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Neil Jordan, Richard Attenborough, Andy Tennant, and Nora Ephron.
Known For
Acting History
2025
The Choral
Original Music Composer
2024
Unit 234
Original Music Composer
2023
The Old Oak
Original Music Composer
Allelujah
Original Music Composer
Wild Isles
TVOriginal Music Composer
2022
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
Original Music Composer
2021
The United Way
Original Music Composer
Beat the Devil
Original Music Composer
The Duke
Original Music Composer
The Duke
Orchestrator
2020
The Secret: Dare to Dream
Original Music Composer
2019
Sorry We Missed You
Original Music Composer
Cold Pursuit
Original Music Composer
2018
Red Joan
Original Music Composer
Woman Walks Ahead
Original Music Composer
2016
I, Daniel Blake
Original Music Composer
Wild Oats
Original Music Composer
2015
Absolutely Anything
Original Music Composer
The Lady in the Van
Original Music Composer
2014
2013
The Zero Theorem
Original Music Composer
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Original Music Composer
2012
The Angels' Share
Original Music Composer
2011
Route Irish
Original Music Composer
2010
The Bounty Hunter
Original Music Composer
2009
Looking for Eric
Original Music Composer
Life
TVOriginal Music Composer
2008
Fool's Gold
Original Music Composer
2007
Earth
Original Music Composer
It's a Free World...
Original Music Composer
2006
Last Holiday
Original Music Composer
The History Boys
Original Music Composer
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Original Music Composer
Planet Earth
TVMusic
Planet Earth: The Future
TVMusic
2005
Tickets
Original Music Composer
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Original Music Composer
Valiant
Original Music Composer
Bewitched
Original Music Composer
Hitch
Original Music Composer
2004
Ae Fond Kiss...
Original Music Composer
Stage Beauty
Original Music Composer
Pride
Music
Pride
Original Music Composer
2003
Deep Blue
Original Music Composer
Imagining Argentina
Original Music Composer
2002
Sweet Sixteen
Original Music Composer
Sweet Home Alabama
Original Music Composer
2001
Summer Catch
Original Music Composer
The Navigators
Original Music Composer
The Blue Planet
TVOriginal Music Composer
2000
Center Stage
Original Music Composer
Lucky Numbers
Original Music Composer
Bread & Roses
Original Music Composer
1999
Grey Owl
Original Music Composer
Entropy
Original Music Composer
Anna and the King
Original Music Composer
1998
My Name Is Joe
Original Music Composer
Dangerous Beauty
Original Music Composer
The Woodlanders
Original Music Composer
Living Out Loud
Original Music Composer
EverAfter
Original Music Composer
You've Got Mail
Original Music Composer
The Object of My Affection
Original Music Composer
1996
In Love and War
Original Music Composer
Heaven's Prisoners
Original Music Composer
Mary Reilly
Original Music Composer
August
Conductor
Carla's Song
Original Music Composer
The Crucible
Original Music Composer
Multiplicity
Original Music Composer
1995
Land and Freedom
Original Music Composer
1994
The Madness of King George
Original Music Composer
Interview with the Vampire
Music Supervisor
China Moon
Original Music Composer
Mixed Nuts
Original Music Composer
Ladybird Ladybird
Original Music Composer
1993
Born Yesterday
Original Music Composer
Shadowlands
Original Music Composer
Groundhog Day
Original Music Composer
Life in the Freezer
TVOriginal Music Composer
1992
Hero
Original Music Composer
Final Analysis
Original Music Composer
1991
The Fisher King
Original Music Composer
1990
Memphis Belle
Original Music Composer
White Palace
Original Music Composer
The Long Walk Home
Original Music Composer
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Original Music Composer
The Trials of Life
Music
Trials of Life
TVMusic
1989
We're No Angels
Original Music Composer
We're No Angels
Orchestrator
1988
The Dressmaker
Original Music Composer
The Dressmaker
Music
Dangerous Liaisons
Original Music Composer
A Handful of Dust
Original Music Composer
High Spirits
Original Music Composer
Talking Heads
TVMusic
1987
84 Charing Cross Road
Original Music Composer
Cry Freedom
Original Music Composer
White Mischief
Original Music Composer
1986
Song of Experience
Music
Past Caring
Original Music Composer
Clockwise
Original Music Composer
The Monocled Mutineer
TVMusic
Call Me Mister
TVOriginal Music Composer
1985
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Original Music Composer
Screen Two
TVMusic
1984
The Company of Wolves
Original Music Composer
The Jewel in the Crown
TVMusic
1983
The Ghost Writer
Music
Walter and June
Original Music Composer
An Englishman Abroad
Original Music Composer
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Original Music Composer
Runners
Original Music Composer
Runners
Conductor
1982
Gandhi
Conductor
Gandhi
Original Music Composer
Walter
Original Music Composer
Easter 2016
Original Music Composer
Play for Tomorrow
TVOriginal Music Composer
1981
Going Gently
Original Music Composer
The History Man
TVOriginal Music Composer
1980
Dead End
Original Music Composer
Bloody Kids
Original Music Composer
Hussy
Original Music Composer
Hussy
Conductor
Fox
TVMusic• 13 eps
1979
One Fine Day
Original Music Composer
Afternoon Off
Original Music Composer
The Old Crowd
Original Music Composer
All Day on the Sands
Original Music Composer
Shoestring
TVOriginal Music Composer
BBC Play of the Month
TVMusic• 1 eps
1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Original Music Composer
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Original Music Composer
Doris and Doreen
Original Music Composer
1977
Last Summer
Music
1972
A Day Out
as Florence's Brother
1971
Private Road
as Henry
Private Road
Original Music Composer