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David Arnold

1962 - Today

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David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997–2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day, he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for Sherlock, he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of "His Last Vow", the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Arnold is the 1,327th most popular composer (down from 1,305th in 2019), the 5,030th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,640th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, David Arnold ranks 1,327 out of 1,451. Before him are Spike Jones, Artur Lemba, Arturo Rodas, Thomas Bergersen, Claude Vivier, and Steve Jablonsky. After him are Howard Hanson, Bruce Broughton, Detto Mariano, Poul Ruders, Karel Husa, and Rauf Hajiyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, David Arnold ranks 413. Before him are Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Yvonne Ryding, Nana Ioseliani, Uwe Hohn, Sabine Busch, and Pam Shriver. After him are Toshihiko Seki, Sergio Casal, Steve Albini, Ali Smith, Donato Gama da Silva, and Arnaud Montebourg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Arnold ranks 5,032 out of 8,785. Before him are John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958), Jonathan Lynn (1943), John Pritchard (1921), Thomas Lewis (1881), Luke Fildes (1843), and Ran Laurie (1915). After him are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801), George Grote (1794), Anthony Newley (1931), Paddy Considine (1973), Edmund Gosse (1849), and Matthew Tuck (1980).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, David Arnold ranks 82. Before him are Thomas Tomkins (1572), Samuel Arnold (1740), Hamilton Harty (1879), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Humphrey Searle (1915). After him are Henry Lawes (1595), Edmund Rubbra (1901), Jocelyn Pook (1960), Anne Dudley (1956), Monty Norman (1928), and George Fenton (1950).

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