Harry Gregson-Williams

{{Infobox musical artist

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| background = non_performing_personnel

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|12|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Chichester, England

| genre = {{hlist|Film scores|video game scores|soundtracks|classical rock|jazz rock|electronic rock}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Composer|conductor|music producer}}

| instruments = {{hlist|Vocals|piano|keyboards|synthesizer|percussion|guitar}}

| years_active = 1990–present

| label = Wavecrest

| spouse = Malika Gregson-Williams (married 2024 - present)

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Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961){{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/harry-gregson-williams-mn0000664429|title=Harry Gregson-Williams|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=11 April 2017}} 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.

Education

Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school and later attended Stowe School, an independent boarding school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.{{cite web |url=http://www.stowe.co.uk/news-and-events/news-archive/669/harry-gregson-williams |title=Harry Gregson-Williams |work=Stowe School |access-date=24 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213030735/http://www.stowe.co.uk/news-and-events/news-archive/669/harry-gregson-williams |archive-date=13 December 2013}}

He learned to play the piano as a child on a Broadwood piano which his father had bought with the winnings from a hundred-to-one bet during the Grand National.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/8kbg3g0zJnw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160503013517/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kbg3g0zJnw Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kbg3g0zJnw| title = Creative Cribs – Harry Gregson-Williams | date = 22 February 2016 | via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

Discography

=Film=

==1990s==

Year ! Title ! Director(s) ! Studio(s) ! Notes
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1990	Revenge	Tony Scott	Rastar	Additional music Director's cut
1991	Cold Heaven	Nicolas Roeg	Hemdale	Music associate
rowspan="2"\| 1994	White Angel	Chris Jones	Living Spirit Pictures	{{N/A}}
Broken Heart	Matt McConaghy	ITV Yorkshire	Short film
rowspan="3"\| 1995	Hotel Paradise	Nicolas Roeg	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	Short film
Three Miles Up	Lesley Manning	{{N/A}}	TV movie
Full Body Massage	Nicolas Roeg	Paramount Television Showtime Networks	TV movie
rowspan="3"\| 1996	The Whole Wide World	Dan Ireland	Sony Pictures Classics	Co-composed 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
rowspan="3"\| 1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Bille August	Det Danske Filminstitut Bavaria Film Constantin Film Fox Searchlight Pictures (US)	Co-composed 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}}
rowspan="5"\| 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	Co-composed with John Powell First score for an animated film
The Prince of Egypt	Brenda Chapman Steve Hickner Simon Wells	DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	As conductor Co-composed with Hans Zimmer for the song number "All I Ever Wanted"
Enemy of the State	Tony Scott	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Scott Free Productions Touchstone Pictures	Co-composed with Trevor Rabin
Armageddon	Michael Bay	Touchstone Pictures Jerry Bruckheimer Films Valhalla Motion Pictures	Co-composed with Trevor Rabin, Steve Jablonsky, Don L. Harper, Paul Linford and John Van Tongeren
rowspan="4"\| 1999	Swing Vote	David Anspaugh	Columbia TriStar Television ABC	TV movie
The Match	Mick Davis	Gramercy Pictures	{{N/A}}
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
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rowspan="4"\| 2000	The Tigger Movie	Jun Falkenstein	DisneyToon Studios Walt Disney Pictures	{{N/A}}
The Magic of Marciano	Tony Barbieri	Outrider Pictures	{{N/A}}
Chicken Run	Peter Lord Nick Park	Aardman Animations DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures (International) Pathé (Europe)	Co-composed with John Powell
King of the Jungle	Seth Zvi Rosenfeld	Urbanworld Films	{{N/A}}
rowspan="4"\| 2001	Spy Kids	Robert Rodriguez	Troublemaker Studios Dimension Films	Co-composed with John Debney, Danny Elfman, Los Lobos, Robert Rodriguez, Heitor Pereira, and Gavin Greenaway
Shrek	Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson	PDI/DreamWorks DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	Co-composed with John Powell
The Hire	Alejandro González Iñárritu	BMW Films	Segment: "Powder Keg"
Spy Game	Tony Scott	Beacon Pictures Universal Pictures	{{N/A}}
rowspan="3"\| 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"
rowspan="3"\| 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 and Japan) Columbia Pictures (International)	{{N/A}}
rowspan="5"\| 2004	Man on Fire	Tony Scott	Scott Free Productions Regency Enterprises 20th Century Fox	Co-composed with Lisa Gerrard
Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson Kelly Asbury Conrad Vernon	PDI/DreamWorks DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures	{{N/A}}
Return to Sender	Bille August	DEJ Productions	{{N/A}}
Team America: World Police	Trey Parker	Paramount Pictures	Replaced Marc Shaiman
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Beeban Kidron	StudioCanal Working Title Films Miramax Films Universal Pictures	{{N/A}}
rowspan="3"\| 2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Ridley Scott	Studio Babelsberg Scott Free Productions 20th Century Fox	As composer and conductor Replaced Hans Zimmer
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}}
rowspan="4"\| 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	David Bowers Sam Fell	Aardman Animations DreamWorks Animation Paramount Pictures	{{N/A}}
Déjà Vu	Tony Scott	Jerry Bruckheimer Films Scott Free Productions Touchstone Pictures	{{N/A}}
rowspan="4"\| 2007	The Number 23	Joel Schumacher	New Line Cinema	{{N/A}}
Shrek the Third	Chris Miller Raman Hui	PDI/DreamWorks 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
rowspan="4"\| 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	Also voiced Patterwig the Squirrel
Jolene	Dan Ireland	E1 Entertainment	Also music producer
rowspan="2"\| 2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Gavin Hood	Seed Productions Marvel Entertainment 20th Century Fox	As composer and conductor Additional music by Hybrid and Halli Cauthery
The Taking of Pelham 123	Tony Scott	Escape Artists Scott Free Productions Relativity Media Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures	Additional music by Hybrid

==2010s==

Year ! Title ! Director(s) ! Studio(s) ! Notes
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rowspan="5"\| 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	Additional music by Halli Cauthery and David Buckley As composer and conductor
The Town	Ben Affleck	GK Films Legendary Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures	Co-composed with David Buckley
Unstoppable	Tony Scott	Scott Free Productions Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox	Additional music by Justin Caine Burnett
rowspan="3"\| 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)	Additional music by Halli Cauthery Hybrid provided sound design textures{{cite web \|url=http://www.hybridscores.com/aproject/cowboys-aliens/ \|work=Hybrid Scores website \|title=Cowboys & Aliens \|access-date=23 March 2019 \|archive-date=3 April 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403215127/http://www.hybridscores.com/aproject/cowboys-aliens/ \|url-status=dead }}
Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith	Aardman Animations Sony Pictures Animation Columbia Pictures	Also music producer Replaced Michael Giacchino and Adam Cohen
rowspan="3"\| 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	Additional music by Hybrid As composer and music producer Orchestra conducted by Gavin Greenaway
rowspan="2"\| 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}}
rowspan="2"\| 2014	Hate from a Distance	Dan Ireland	Privarte Pictures	Co-composed with Tom Howe
The Equalizer	Antoine Fuqua	Escape Artists Village Roadshow Pictures Columbia Pictures	Additional music by Hybrid
rowspan="4"\| 2015	Blackhat	Michael Mann	Legendary Pictures Universal Pictures	Co-composed with Atticus Ross, Ryan Amon, and Leo Ross
Monkey Kingdom	Mark Linfield Alastair Fothergill	Disneynature	{{N/A}}
The Martian	Ridley Scott	Genre Films TSG Entertainment Scott Free Productions 20th Century Fox	As composer and conductor
Miss You Already	Catherine Hardwicke	Lionsgate (US) Entertainment One (UK)	{{N/A}}
rowspan="2"\| 2016	Confirmation	Rick Famuyiwa	HBO	TV movie Additional music by Stephanie Economou
Live by Night	Ben Affleck	Warner Bros. Pictures Appian Way Productions Pearl Street Films	Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor
rowspan="3"\| 2017	The Zookeeper's Wife	Niki Caro	Focus Features	Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor
Breath	Simon Baker	See Pictures Windalong Gran Via FilmRise	Additional music by Stephanie Economou
Alien: Covenant	Ridley Scott	TSG Entertainment Scott Free Productions Brandywine Productions 20th Century Fox	Two tracks ("Life" and "We Were Right") Main score by Jed Kurzel
rowspan="3"\| 2018	Early Man	Nick Park	StudioCanal Aardman Animations	Co-composed with Tom Howe Additional music by Paul Mounsey Orchestra conducted with Gavin Greenaway
The Equalizer 2	Antoine Fuqua	Columbia Pictures Escape Artists	Additional music by Stephanie Economou
The Meg	Jon Turteltaub	Warner Bros. Pictures	Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor
rowspan="1"\| 2019	Penguins	Alastair Fothergill Jeff Wilson	Disneynature	{{N/A}}

==2020s==

Year ! Title ! Director(s) ! Studio(s) ! Notes
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rowspan=1\| 2020	Mulan	Niki Caro	Walt Disney Pictures	Themes by Jerry Goldsmith Additional music by Stephanie Economou and Tom Howe
rowspan=4\| 2021	Infinite	Antoine Fuqua	Paramount+	{{N/A}}
The Last Duel	rowspan=2\|Ridley Scott	20th Century Studios	{{N/A}}
House of Gucci	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative United Artists Releasing	{{N/A}}
Al Kameen	Pierre Morel	AGC Studios Image Nation Abu Dhabi	{{N/A}}
rowspan="2"\| 2022	Return to Space	Jimmy Chin Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi	Netflix	Co-composed with Mychael Danna
Polar Bear	Alastair Fothergill Jeff Wilson	Disneynature	{{N/A}}
rowspan="3"\| 2023	Meg 2: The Trench	Ben Wheatley	Warner Bros. Pictures	{{N/A}}
Retribution	Nimród Antal	Lionsgate Roadside Attractions	{{N/A}}
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Sam Fell	Netflix Aardman Animations	{{N/A}}
2024	Gladiator II	Ridley Scott	Paramount Pictures	{{N/A}}

=Television=

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Year ! Title ! Notes
1991 \| G.B.H. \| 2 episodes music coordinator
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
2017–2018 \| Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams \|
2019 \| Whiskey Cavalier \| Composed with Tom Howe
2019 \| Catch-22 \| Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
2020 \| Manhunt \| Composed season 2 with Stephanie Economou
2020 \| Amazing Stories \| Episode: "Signs of Life"
2022–2023 \| The Gilded Age \| Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams {{Cite web\|title=Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Nimrod Antal's 'Retribution' ('The Ambush')\|url=https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/06/07/harry-gregson-williams-scoring-nimrod-antals-retribution/ \|access-date=17 May 2023 \|agency=Film Music Reporter \|date=7 June 2022}}

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Year

! Title

! Notes

1991

| G.B.H.

| 2 episodes
music coordinator

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

2017–2018

| Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

2019

| Whiskey Cavalier

| Composed with Tom Howe

2019

| Catch-22

| Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams

2020

| Manhunt

| Composed season 2 with Stephanie Economou

2020

| Amazing Stories

| Episode: "Signs of Life"

2022–2023

| The Gilded Age

| Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
{{Cite web|title=Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Nimrod Antal's 'Retribution' ('The Ambush')|url=https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/06/07/harry-gregson-williams-scoring-nimrod-antals-retribution/ |access-date=17 May 2023 |agency=Film Music Reporter |date=7 June 2022}}

=Video games=

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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 With Stephen Barton
2008 \| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots \| With Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori and Kazuma Jinnouchi
2014 \| Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes \| With Ludvig Forssell
2014 \| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare \| Main title and themes only With audiomachine (Paul Dinletir and Kevin Rix)
2015 \| Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain \| Music producer Score composed by Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett and Daniel James

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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
With Stephen Barton

2008

| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

| With Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori and Kazuma Jinnouchi

2014

| Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

| With Ludvig Forssell

2014

| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

| Main title and themes only
With audiomachine (Paul Dinletir and Kevin Rix)

2015

| Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

| Music producer
Score composed by Ludvig Forssell,
Justin Burnett and Daniel James

=Rides=

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

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Year

! Title

! Notes

2001

| Shrek 4-D

| At various theme parks around the world.
Based on the Shrek film franchise.

Awards and nominations

=[[Primetime Emmy Awards]]=

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Year ! Category ! Work ! Result
align="center"\| 2018 \| Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) \| Electric Dreams: The Commute \| {{nom}}
align="center"\| 2022 \| Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special \| Return to Space \| {{nom}}

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Year

! Category

! Work

! Result

align="center"| 2018

| Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score)

| Electric Dreams: The Commute

| {{nom}}

align="center"| 2022

| Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special

| Return to Space

| {{nom}}

References

External links

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[https://www.facebook.com/Harry-Gregson-Williams-13725844020/ Facebook]
[http://www.ocremix.org/artist/65/harry-gregson-williams Artist profile] at OverClocked ReMix
{{musicbrainz artist|id=8974da95-e631-45aa-8fd7-aa0c2795f997|name=Harry Gregson-Williams}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20051223211314/http://www.steinbergusers.com/vids/harrygw/index.php An interview with Harry Gregson-Williams]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060408092242/http://www.epicentergames.com/backdrop/Specal/harryGwillems.htm Epicenter Games Interviews Harry Gregson-Williams], an interview with Harry Gregson-Williams regarding Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, from EpicenterGames
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061020104040/http://www.scorereviews.com/composers/composer.aspx?id=84 Harry Gregson-Williams] at Scorereviews.com

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