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Harry Gregson-Williams

1961 - Today

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Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the Metal Gear series, Spy Game, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, Déjà Vu, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, Team America: World Police, Antz, The Tigger Movie, Chicken Run and its sequel, the Shrek franchise, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, Early Man, Catch-22, and Gladiator II. He is also the older brother of fellow composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. Gregson-Williams worked with several film directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Joel Schumacher, Antoine Fuqua, Niki Caro, Nick Park, and Dan Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Gregson-Williams is the 1,046th most popular composer (down from 965th in 2019), the 3,281st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,638th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Harry Gregson-Williams ranks 1,046 out of 1,451. Before him are William Sterndale Bennett, Carlos Guastavino, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Michele Carafa, Frederic Rzewski, and Alexander Moyzes. After him are Rudolf Tobias, Akira Ifukube, Gavriil Popov, Nicolas Dalayrac, Richard Addinsell, and Francisco Mignone.

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Among people born in 1961, Harry Gregson-Williams ranks 200. Before him are Marc Levy, Supriya Pathak, Andrea Arnold, Isiah Thomas, Thomas Schaaf, and Oleksandr Zavarov. After him are Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Shiva Rajkumar, Michel Martelly, Māris Kučinskis, Soane Patita Paini Mafi, and Saskia Esken.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Gregson-Williams ranks 3,282 out of 8,785. Before him are John D. Barrow (1952), Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Flora Sandes (1876), and James Sowerby (1757). After him are John Bradley (1988), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), William Huskisson (1770), and Patsy Kensit (1968).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Harry Gregson-Williams ranks 47. Before him are Arnold Bax (1883), Charles Burney (1726), John Rutter (1945), Harrison Birtwistle (1934), Matthew Locke (1621), and William Sterndale Bennett (1816). After him are Richard Addinsell (1904), James MacMillan (1959), Dave Stewart (1950), William Lawes (1602), Patrick Doyle (1953), and Cyril Scott (1879).

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