Richard Hartley Biography ((?)-)

Full name, Richard Neville Hartley.

Gender
Male
Occupation
Composer, conductor, musical arranger, musical director, keyboard musician, vocalist

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Film Work
  • Music arranger, music director, and principal music performer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (also known as The Rocky Horror Show), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
  • Music director, Galileo (also known as Galileo Galilei), American Film Theatre, 1975
  • Music conductor, Aces High, Cine Artists Pictures, 1976, Cinema Shares International, 1977
  • Music director, Bad Timing (also known as Bad Timing: A SensualObsession), World Northal, 1980
  • Music arranger, music director, and music performer, Shock Treatment, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981
  • Music editor, Sheena, Columbia, 1984
  • Music conductor, Princess Caraboo, TriStar, 1994
  • Orchestrator and music conductor, Victory, Miramax, 1995
  • Music conductor, Stealing Beauty (also known as Beaute volee and Io ballo da sola), Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1996
  • Orchestrator and music conductor, A Thousand Acres, Buena Vista, 1997
  • Song arranger, "She Walks through the Fair," and music conductor, TheBrylcreem Boys, BMG Video, 1997
  • Music conductor, All the Little Animals, 1998, Lions Gate Films, 1999
  • Stage Work
  • Orchestrator, The Rocky Horror Show, Theatre Upstairs, Circle in the Square, New York City, 2000-2002
  • Music director for The Threepenny Opera, Theatre at Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.
  • RECORDINGS
  • Albums
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (original soundtrack recording), Rhino Records, 1989
  • The Rocky Horror Show (original London cast recording), Rhino Records, 1991
  • Shock Treatment, Rhino Records, 1994
  • The Rocky Horror Show (studio cast recording), Jay Records, 1996
  • The Rocky Horror Collection, Rhino Records, 1997
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years of Absolute Pleasure, Rhino Records, 2000
  • Rocky Horror Collection, five volumes, Essential Records, 2000
  • Thousand Acres, Varese Records, 2000
  • Don Quixote (original score), Varese Records, 2000
  • Background vocalist for In the Meantime: The Music That Tells the Story by Iyanla Vanzant, Harmony Records, 1999; and Christmas in My Heart by Candi Staton, Lightyear, 2001.
  • WRITINGS
  • Film Music
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (also known as The Rocky Horror Show), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
  • The Romantic Englishwoman (also known as Une anglaise romantique), New World, 1975
  • Additional music, Galileo (also known as Galileo Galilei),American Film Theatre, 1975
  • Aces High, Cine Artists Pictures, 1976, Cinema Shares International, 1977
  • High Fidelity, BFI Production Board, 1976
  • The Lady Vanishes, Hammer Film Productions, 1979, Group 1 Film Distributors, 1980
  • Song, "Beauty Queen," The Alternative Miss World, 1980
  • (Including song, "Time Out") Bad Timing (also known as Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession), World Northal, 1980
  • Shock Treatment, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981
  • Bad Blood, White Night Video, 1981
  • La truite (also known as The Trout), 1982, Triumph Releasing, 1983
  • Songs, "Captain Invincible," "Evil Midnight," and "Name Your Poison," The Return of Captain Invincible, 1983
  • Parker, 1984
  • Sheena, Columbia, 1984
  • Bones (also known as Parker), 1984
  • Dance with a Stranger, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1985
  • The Good Father, 1987
  • Sour Sweet, 1988
  • Wild Things, 1988
  • Consuming Passions, 1988
  • Dealers, Skouras Pictures, 1989
  • She's Been Away, 1989, Sales Company, 1990
  • Tree of Hands (also known as Innocent Victim), Castle HillProductions, 1990
  • The March, 1990
  • Afraid of the Dark (also known as Double vue), 1991, Fine Line Features, 1992
  • The Railway Station Man, 1992
  • The Secret Rapture, 1993, Castle Hill, 1994
  • Princess Caraboo, TriStar, 1994
  • An Awfully Big Adventure, Fine Line, 1995
  • Rough Magic (also known as Miss Shumway jette un sort), 1995, Goldwyn Films, 1997
  • Victory, Miramax, 1995
  • Stealing Beauty (also known as Beaute volee and Io balloda sola), Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1996
  • The Van, 1996, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1997
  • The Designated Mourner, First Look Pictures Releasing, 1997
  • A Thousand Acres, Buena Vista, 1997
  • Playing God (also known as Playing Hero), Buena Vista, 1997
  • The Brylcreem Boys, BMG Video, 1997
  • All the Little Animals, 1998, Lions Gate Films, 1999
  • Rogue Trader, Capitol Films, 1999
  • Curtain Call, Curtain Call, 1999
  • Mad about Mambo, Gramercy/USA Films, 2000
  • When Brendan Met Trudy, 2000, Shooting Gallery, 2001
  • The Martins, Tiger Aspect, 2001
  • Also composer for The Long Good Friday and Pete's Meteor.
  • Television Music
  • Movies
  • Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil, NBC, 1985
  • Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, ABC, 1986
  • Tumbledown, BBC (England), 1989
  • Midnight's Child, Lifetime, 1992
  • Comics, Channel 4 (England), 1993
  • When Secrets Kill, ABC, 1997
  • Alice in Wonderland, ABC, 1999
  • Don Quixote, TNT, 2000
  • Specials
  • Suddenly, Last Summer, PBS, 1993
  • The Rector's Wife, PBS, 1993
  • Other
  • High Tide, 1980
  • Blue Money, 1982
  • Kennedy (miniseries), NBC, 1983
  • The McGuffin, 1985
  • Mandela, 1987
  • The Impossible Spy, 1987
  • Metamorphosis, 1987
  • Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage, 1989
  • Running Late, 1992
  • The Man Who Cried, 1993
  • Self Catering (also known as Alan Bleasdale Presents Self Catering), 1994
  • No Man's Land (also known as Black Easter), 1994
  • Murder in Mind, 1994
  • September (also known as Rosamunde Pilcher's September), 1996
  • Flowers of the Forest, 1996
  • Also composer for Armadillo, December Flower, Die Kinder, and Muck and Brass.
  • Stage Music
  • Incidental music, Steaming, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1982-1983
  • Incidental music, Amy's View, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1999
  • The Novice, Almeida Theatre, London, 2000
  • Composer for productions of The Absence of War, Murmuring Judges, and Night of the Iguana, all Royal National Theatre, London; Steaming, Comedy Theatre, London; Tooth of the Crime, Royal CourtTheatre, London; The Unseen Hand; and White Chameleon, Royal National Theatre.