Richard Hartley
Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for The Rocky Horror Show. He went on to arrange the score for the London stage and film adaptation (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included Galileo (1975), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979).
In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp, and TV movie productions, such as Kennedy (1983), Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985), Mandela (1987) and Rules of Engagement (1989). However he also composed for film, including the Nicolas Roeg film Bad Timing (1980), Bad Blood (1982), The Trout (1982), The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), Sheena (1984) (for which Hartley was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), Dance with a Stranger (1985), Parker (1985), The Good Father (1985), Consuming Passions (1988) and Tree of Hands (1989). However, one of his lesser known works is the music for The Fifth Dimension, a dark ride at Chessington World of Adventures.
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Films (68)
Sane Inside Insanity
2025 · Self – Composer
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015 · Music, Original Music Composer
De grandes espérances
2012 · Original Music Composer
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008 · Original Music Composer
Moi, Peter Sellers
2004 · Original Music Composer
Le lion en hiver
2003 · Original Music Composer
Pete's Meteor
2002 · Original Music Composer
Puckoon
2002 · Original Music Composer
The Martins
2001 · Original Music Composer
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000 · Music
Don Quixote
2000 · Original Music Composer
Mad About Mambo
2000 · Music
All the Little Animals
1999 · Original Music Composer
Trader
1999 · Music, Original Music Composer
Alice au Pays des Merveilles
1999 · Music
Curtain Call
1998 · Original Music Composer
Le Damné
1997 · Original Music Composer
Secrets
1997 · Original Music Composer
The Designated Mourner
1997 · Original Music Composer
Victory
1996 · Music
The Van
1996 · Original Music Composer
Flor del Bosque
1996 · Original Music Composer
Beauté volée
1996 · Original Music Composer
Miss Shumway jette un sort
1995 · Music
The Absence of War
1995 · Original Music Composer
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Original Music Composer
Murder in Mind
1994 · Original Music Composer
Princesse Caraboo
1994 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Secret Rapture
1993 · Music
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993 · Original Music Composer
Suddenly, Last Summer
1993 · Original Music Composer
The Railway Station Man
1992 · Original Music Composer
Running Late
1992 · Music
Midnight's Child
1992 · Music
Adam Bede
1992 · Music
Double vue
1992 · Original Music Composer
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989 · Original Music Composer
Dealers
1989 · Music
Dream Baby
1989 · Original Music Composer
Metamorphosis
1989 · Original Music Composer
Tree of Hands
1989 · Original Music Composer
Here Is the News
1989 · Music
Tumbledown
1988 · Original Music Composer
Soursweet
1988 · Original Music Composer
Consuming Passions
1988 · Original Music Composer
The Impossible Spy
1987 · Original Music Composer
Mandela
1987 · Music
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986 · Original Music Composer
The Good Father
1985 · Original Music Composer
Where Did I Come From?
1985 · Music
Parker
1985 · Original Music Composer
Dance with a Stranger
1985 · Original Music Composer
Blue Money
1985 · Original Music Composer
December Flower
1984 · Music
Sheena
1984 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 · Songs
Party Party
1983 · Music Consultant
Bad Blood
1982 · Original Music Composer
The Trout
1982 · Original Music Composer
Shock Treatment
1981 · Songs, Original Music Composer, Music, Music Arranger, Musician
High Tide
1980 · Original Music Composer
Bad Timing
1980 · Original Music Composer
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · Original Music Composer
Aces High
1976 · Original Music Composer
High Fidelity
1976 · Music
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 · Original Music Composer, Songs
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Galileo
1975 · Original Music Composer
Séries (10)
Murderland
2009 · Original Music Composer
The Rector's Wife
1994 · Original Music Composer
Comics
1993 · Original Music Composer
Die Kinder
1990 · Original Music Composer
Rules of Engagement
1989 · Music
Dead Head
1986 · Original Music Composer
Screen Two
1985 · Original Music Composer
Kennedy
1983 · Original Music Composer
Penmarric
1979 · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who
1963 · Original Music Composer