Richard Hartley

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-07-28 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

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Richard Hartley

Biography

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 L...

Acting

2025

The Rocky Horror Phenomenon

as Self – Composer

Production

2004

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Lady Vanishes

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Van

as Original Music Composer

1997

Playing God

as Original Music Composer

1975

The Romantic Englishwoman

as Original Music Composer

1982

Bad Blood

as Original Music Composer

1976

Aces High

as Music

1987

The Impossible Spy

as Original Music Composer

1996

Victory

as Music

1984

1982

The Trout

as Original Music Composer

1989

1988

Soursweet

as Original Music Composer

1992

The Railway Station Man

as Original Music Composer

1993

1985

Dance with a Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1992

Adam Bede

as Music

1980

High Tide

as Original Music Composer

2000

Don Quixote

as Original Music Composer

1995

Rough Magic

as Music

1992

Running Late

as Music

1992

1993

Anna Lee: Headcase

as Original Music Composer

1989

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

as Original Music Composer

2012

Great Expectations

as Original Music Composer

1975

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

as Original Music Composer

1981

1985

Parker

as Original Music Composer

1995

The Absence of War

as Original Music Composer

1988

Tumbledown

as Original Music Composer

2008

Flashbacks of a Fool

as Original Music Composer

1980

Bad Timing

as Original Music Composer

1995

An Awfully Big Adventure

as Original Music Composer

2001

The Martins

as Original Music Composer

1981

Shock Treatment

as Original Music Composer

2003

The Lion in Winter

as Original Music Composer

1997

A Thousand Acres

as Original Music Composer

2015

Rocky Horror Show Live

as Original Music Composer

1994

Princess Caraboo

as Original Music Composer

1989

Dream Baby

as Original Music Composer

1994

Murder in Mind

as Original Music Composer

1996

Stealing Beauty

as Original Music Composer

1997

The Designated Mourner

as Original Music Composer

1989

Dealers

as Music

1993

Suddenly, Last Summer

as Original Music Composer

1991

Afraid of the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1981

Shock Treatment

as Musician

1981

1981

Shock Treatment

as Music Arranger

1984

Sheena

as Conductor

1984

Sheena

as Original Music Composer

1975

Galileo

as Original Music Composer

2000

1999

Rogue Trader

as Music

1985

The Good Father

as Original Music Composer

1986

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

as Original Music Composer

1976

1989

Tree of Hands

as Original Music Composer

1999

All the Little Animals

as Original Music Composer

2002

Pete's Meteor

as Original Music Composer

1987

Metamorphosis

as Original Music Composer

1988

1998

Curtain Call

as Original Music Composer

1987

Mandela

as Music

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