Christopher Gunning

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-08-05 (79 years old)

Deathday

2023-03-25

Place of Birth

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Christopher Gunning

Biography

Christopher Gunning (born 5 August 1944) is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. Gunning's film and TV compositions have received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for La Vie en Rose, as well as three additional awards for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue. He has also won three Ivor Novello Awards, for the TV miniseries Rebecca, and the film scores for Under Suspicion (1991), and F...

Acting

2007

La Vie en Rose

as Orchestra conductor

Production

2007

La Vie en Rose

as Original Music Composer

1995

The Affair

as Original Music Composer

1981

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

as Original Music Composer

1970

1971

Hands of the Ripper

as Original Music Composer

2004

Lighthouse Hill

as Original Music Composer

1976

Rogue Male

as Original Music Composer

2014

1986

1972

Ooh...You Are Awful

as Original Music Composer

1974

Man About the House

as Original Music Composer

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

as Additional Music

1998

The Cater Street Hangman

as Original Music Composer

1975

In Celebration

as Original Music Composer

1998

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

as Original Music Composer

1998

Firelight

as Original Music Composer

1979

1991

Under Suspicion

as Original Music Composer

1998

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