Richard Hartley (born July 28, 1944) is a British composer. July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...

His work is extensive and varied, including musical arrangement for theatre and many scores for television and film. In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was part of the original four-piece band for the Rocky Horror Show. He also provided arrangements for the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and its sequel Shock Treatment, and worked with O'Brien on another, unproduced sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. Richard OBrien Richard OBrien (born Richard Timothy Smith on March 25, 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK) is a writer and performer. ... The Rocky Horror Show was a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ... The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien, who also composed the songs. ... Shock Treatment was the less successful and critically panned follow-up to the classic cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS). ... Revenge of the Old Queen is the title of the intended third film in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) comedy-horror musical trilogy. ...

In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp. However, he also composed for film, including the score for the film Sheena, for which Hartley was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award. Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... For other uses, see Mindwarp (disambiguation). ... 1984 Columbia Pictures movie based on the comic character of the same name. ... The 5th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 24, 1985 at Vine Street Elementary School, California to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1984. ... The Golden Raspberries or Razzies were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. ...

In the 1990s he provided the score for many films including Princess Caraboo, Rogue Trader and Curtain Call. Princess Caraboo is a 1994 film, directed by Michael Austin, based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language. ... Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World is a book by Nick Leeson, who served four years in prison for fraud after bankrupting the London-based Barings Bank in 1995 by hiding $1. ... Curtain Call: The Hits will be Eminems fifth major label release. ...

Most recently, Hartley provided music for the acclaimed BBC/HBO special The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in 2004. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was a 2004 film about the life of Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis book of the same name. ...

External links

• Hartley/ Richard Hartley at The Internet Movie Database