Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams
Background information
Born (1961-12-13) 13 December 1961
Origin Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Genres Film score, video game music
Occupation(s) Composer, conductor, music producer
Instruments Piano, percussion
Years active 1993–present
Labels Wavecrest Music

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He has regularly written for television and films, such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, and the Shrek franchise.

Gregson-Williams has also composed music for several video games, having notably helped score every main entry in the Metal Gear series since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Education

Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College at the University of Cambridge at the age of seven, where he was a child chorister, and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar, followed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.[1]

Discography

Film

1990s

Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes
1994 White Angel Chris Jones Living Spirit Pictures N/A
Broken Heart Matt McConaghy ITV Yorkshire Short film
1995 Hotel Paradise Nicolas Roeg Westdeutscher Rundfunk Short film
Three Miles Up Lesley Manning TV movie N/A
Full Body Massage Nicolas Roeg Paramount Television
Showtime Networks
TV movie
1996 The Whole Wide World Dan Ireland Sony Pictures Classics with Hans Zimmer
Witness Against Hitler Betsan Morris Evans BBC TV movie
The Rock Michael Bay Hollywood Pictures Music producer with Hans Zimmer
Score composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith
1997 Smilla's Sense of Snow Bille August Det Danske Filminstitut
Bavaria Film
Constantin Film
Fox Searchlight Pictures (US)
with Hans Zimmer
Deceiver Jonas Pate
Josh Pate
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer N/A
The Borrowers Peter Hewitt Working Title Films
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Gramercy Pictures
N/A
1998 The Replacement Killers Antoine Fuqua Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Columbia Pictures
N/A
Antz Eric Darnell
Tim Johnson
Pacific Data Images
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Pictures
with John Powell
Enemy of the State Tony Scott Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Scott Free Productions
Touchstone Pictures
with Trevor Rabin
1999 Swing Vote David Anspaugh Columbia TriStar Television
ABC
TV movie
The Match Mick Davis Gramercy Pictures N/A
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Gary Halvorson Jim Henson Productions
Children's Television Workshop
Columbia Pictures
with John Debney
Light It Up Craig Bolotin 20th Century Fox N/A
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Peter Hewitt Intermedia N/A

2000s

Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes
2000 The Tigger Movie Jun Falkenstein DisneyToon Studios
Walt Disney Pictures
The Magic of Marciano Tony Barbieri Outrider Pictures N/A
Chicken Run Peter Lord
Nick Park
Aardman Animations
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Pictures (North America)
Pathé (International)
With John Powell
King of the Jungle Seth Zvi Rosenfeld Urbanworld Films N/A
2001 Spy Kids Robert Rodriguez Troublemaker Studios
Dimension Films
with John Debney, Danny Elfman, Los Lobos, Robert Rodriguez, Heitor Pereira, and Gavin Greenaway
Shrek Andrew Adamson
Vicky Jenson
Pacific Data Images
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Pictures
with John Powell
The Hire Alejandro González Iñárritu BMW Films Segment: "Powder Keg"
Spy Game Tony Scott Beacon Pictures
Universal Pictures
N/A
2002 Passionada Dan Ireland Samuel Goldwyn Films N/A
Phone Booth Joel Schumacher Zucker/Netter
20th Century Fox
N/A
The Hire Tony Scott BMW Films Segment: "Beat the Devil"
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Tim Johnson
Patrick Gilmore
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Pictures
N/A
Veronica Guerin Joel Schumacher Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Touchstone Pictures
N/A
The Rundown Peter Berg Strike Entertainment
WWE Films
Universal Pictures (North America & Japan)
Columbia Pictures (International)
N/A
2004 Man on Fire Tony Scott Scott Free Productions
Regency Enterprises
20th Century Fox
with Lisa Gerrard
Shrek 2 Andrew Adamson
Kelly Asbury
Conrad Vernon
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Pictures
N/A
Return to Sender Bille August DEJ Productions N/A
Team America: World Police Trey Parker Paramount Pictures with Marc Shaiman (songs only; Shaiman's score was rejected)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Beeban Kidron StudioCanal
Working Title Films
Miramax Films
Universal Pictures
N/A
2005 Kingdom of Heaven Ridley Scott Studio Babelsberg
Scott Free Productions
20th Century Fox
N/A
Domino Tony Scott Scott Free Productions
Davis Films
New Line Cinema
N/A
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Andrew Adamson Walden Media
Walt Disney Pictures
N/A
2006 The Uninvited Louise Runge Logo TV Short film
Seraphim Falls David Von Ancken Icon Productions
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Destination Films
N/A
Flushed Away Sam Fell
David Bowers
Aardman Animations
DreamWorks Animation
Paramount Pictures
N/A
Déjà Vu Tony Scott Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Scott Free Productions
Touchstone Pictures
N/A
2007 The Number 23 Joel Schumacher New Line Cinema N/A
Shrek the Third Chris Miller
Raman Hui
DreamWorks Animation
Paramount Pictures
N/A
Gone Baby Gone Ben Affleck The Ladd Company
Miramax Films
N/A
Slipstream Anthony Hopkins Strand Releasing
Destination Films
Music Producer
Score composed by Anthony Hopkins
2008 Em Tony Barbieri SnagFilms
Vanguard Cinema
N/A
The Forbidden Kingdom Rob Minkoff Lionsgate
Relativity Media
Casey Silver Productions
Huayi Brothers
Score Producer
Score composed by David Buckley
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Andrew Adamson Walden Media
Walt Disney Pictures
N/A
Jolene Dan Ireland E1 Entertainment Also music producer
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine Gavin Hood Seed Productions
Marvel Entertainment
20th Century Fox
N/A
The Taking of Pelham 123 Tony Scott Escape Artists
Scott Free Productions
Relativity Media
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Columbia Pictures
N/A

2010s

Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes
2010 Twelve Joel Schumacher Radar Pictures
Hannover House
Gaumont
N/A
Shrek Forever After Mike Mitchell DreamWorks Animation
Paramount Pictures
N/A
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Mike Newell Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Walt Disney Pictures
N/A
The Town Ben Affleck GK Films
Legendary Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures
with David Buckley
Unstoppable Tony Scott Scott Free Productions
Dune Entertainment
20th Century Fox
N/A
2011 Life in a Day Kevin Macdonald National Geographic Films N/A
Cowboys & Aliens Jon Favreau Platinum Studios
Fairview Entertainment
Imagine Entertainment
DreamWorks Pictures
Universal Pictures (North America)
Paramount Pictures (International)
N/A
Arthur Christmas Sarah Smith Aardman Animations
Sony Pictures Animation
Columbia Pictures
N/A
2012 Prometheus Ridley Scott Scott Free Productions
Brandywine Productions
Dune Entertainment
20th Century Fox
Two tracks ("Life" and "We Were Right")
Main score by Marc Streitenfeld
I Am Bad David Rackoff OneZero Productions N/A
Total Recall Len Wiseman Original Film
Columbia Pictures
N/A
2013 The East Zal Batmanglij Scott Free Productions
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Themes
Main score by Halli Cauthery
Mr. Pip Andrew Adamson Olympus Pictures N/A
2014 The Equalizer Antoine Fuqua Escape Artists
Village Roadshow Pictures
Columbia Pictures
N/A
2015 Blackhat Michael Mann Legendary Pictures
Universal Pictures
with Atticus Ross
Monkey Kingdom Mark Linfield
Alastair Fothergill
Disneynature N/A
The Martian Ridley Scott Genre Films
TSG Entertainment
Scott Free Productions
20th Century Fox
N/A
Miss You Already Catherine Hardwicke Lionsgate (US)
Entertainment One (UK)
N/A
2016 Live by Night Ben Affleck Warner Bros. N/A
2017 Alien: Covenant Ridley Scott TSG Entertainment
Scott Free Productions
20th Century Fox
N/A
TBA Alien 5 Neill Blomkamp Scott Free Productions
20th Century Fox
N/A

Television

Year Title Notes
1992 Champion Children
1999 The Hunger Episode: "Sanctuary"
2002 AFP: American Fighter Pilot
2004 Father of the Pride 3 episodes
2007-2008 The Riches
2007 Shrek the Halls TV special

Video games

Year Title Notes
2001 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty With Norihiko Hibino
2004 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater With Norihiko Hibino
2007 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Main theme only and music producer
2008 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots With various others
2014 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes With Ludvig Forssell
2014 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare With audiomachine (Paul Dinletir and Kevin Rix)
2015 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Music producer
Score composed by Ludvig Forsell,
Justin Burnett and Daniel James

Rides

Year Title Notes
2001 Shrek 4-D At various theme parks around the world.
Based on the Shrek film franchise.

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

References

  1. Stowe School - Harry Gregson-Williams Publisher: Stowe School. Retrieved: 24 August 2013.

External links

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