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Nicholas Hooper

1952 - Today

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Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act. He studied at the Royal College of Music in the early 1970s where he scored his first films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Hooper is the 1,284th most popular composer (down from 1,225th in 2019), the 4,659th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,931st in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicholas Hooper ranks 1,284 out of 1,451. Before him are Erkki-Sven Tüür, Toshio Hosokawa, Maurice Greene, Władysław Żeleński, Jonathan Larson, and Andrey Petrov. After him are Hiroyuki Sawano, Lowell Mason, Thomas Tomkins, Shivkumar Sharma, Paul Williams, and Necil Kazım Akses.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Nicholas Hooper ranks 498. Before him are Tony Kaye, Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes, William Boyd, Brigitte Ahrenholz, Darya Dontsova, and Inese Vaidere. After him are Christine Estabrook, Rick Scott, Julie Taymor, Clarke Peters, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and Rodolfo Neri Vela.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hooper ranks 4,660 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Montagu (1718), Richard K. Guy (1916), Reginald Wingate (1861), Gary Daniels (1963), Leander Starr Jameson (1853), and Albert Ball (1896). After him are David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919), Sydney Parkinson (1745), David Walliams (1971), John Peckham (1227), I. J. Good (1916), and Jhumpa Lahiri (1967).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hooper ranks 75. Before him are Ivor Novello (1893), George Alexander Macfarren (1813), Rachel Portman (1960), Gerald Finzi (1901), Peter Warlock (1894), and Maurice Greene (1696). After him are Thomas Tomkins (1572), Samuel Arnold (1740), Hamilton Harty (1879), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Humphrey Searle (1915).

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