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.