Richard Gibbs Biography ((?)-)

Full name, Richard Kendall Gibbs; born in Dayton (some sources cite Bay Village), OH; raised in Daytona Beach, FL. Addresses: Agent: Soundtrack Music Associates, 15760 Ventura Blvd., Suite 2021, Encino, CA 91436.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer, conductor, orchestrator, keyboard performer, music producer

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Music Conductor
Passed Away, Buena Vista, 1992
Amos & Andrew, Columbia, 1993
Son in Law, Buena Vista, 1993
Songs "B Swell" and "Cartoonicide," Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
Doctor Dolittle, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
Queen of the Damned (also known as Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned"), Warner Bros., 2002
Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2004
Other
Music arranger, Sweet Hearts Dance, TriStar, 1988
Score performer, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Buena Vista, 1992
Score performer, Three of Hearts, New Line Cinema, 1993
Song performer, "Calliope Music," Mighty Joe Young, Buena Vista, 1998
Orchestrator, 10 Things I Hate About You, Buena Vista, 1999
Film Appearances
(With Oingo Boingo) Urgh! A Music War (documentary), Lorimar, 1981
Television Work
Series
Music director for Muppets Tonight!, ABC; and The Tracey UllmanShow, Fox.
Specials
Music director, Rock the House, NBC, 1990
Music performer, Hogg's Heaven, Showtime, 1992
Pianist, VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin--A Benefit Concert for VH1 Save the Music Foundation, VH1, 2001
RECORDINGS
Albums; With Oingo Boingo
10 Inch EP, IRS, 1980
Only a Lad, A & M Records, 1981
Nothing to Fear, A & M Records, 1982
Good for Your Soul, A & M Records, 1983
Albums; Other
Bingo, Bay Cities, 1991
First Kid, Super Tracks Music, 1997
28 Days, Varese Sarabande, 2000
Battlestar Galactica, La-La Land Records, 2004
Step into Liquid, Surf Dog, 2004
Videos
Keyboard performer for the music video "Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet," A & M Records, 1989.
WRITINGS
Film Music Composer
Sweet Hearts Dance, TriStar, 1988
... Say Anything ... , Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989

Bingo, TriStar, 1991
A Gnome Named Gnorm (also known as The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm and Upworld), PolyGram Film Entertainment, 1992
Once upon a Crime ... , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1992
Ladybugs, Paramount, 1992
(Including song "Dancin' in the Moonglow") Passed Away, Buena Vista, 1992
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Buena Vista, 1992
Amos & Andrew, Columbia, 1993
Son in Law, Buena Vista, 1993
Fatal Instinct, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1993
Dangerous Indiscretion, Chanticleer Films/Empty Chair Productions/Interglobal Productions, 1994
The Chase, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994
Clifford, Orion, 1994
Songs, Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
Two Guys Talkin' about Girls (also known as ... At First Sight), Trimark Pictures, 1995
First Kid, Buena Vista, 1996
(Including title song) That Darn Cat, Buena Vista, 1997
Dirty Work (also known as Sale boulot), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1998
Doctor Dolittle, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
Music from Another Room, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists/Orion,1998
Song "Calliope Music," Mighty Joe Young, Buena Vista, 1998
10 Things I Hate about You, Buena Vista, 1999
28 Days, Columbia, 2000
Big Momma's House (also known as Big Mamas Haus), TwentiethCentury-Fox, 2000
The Book of Stars, Showcase Entertainment, 2001
Queen of the Damned (also known as Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned"), Warner Bros., 2002
Like Mike, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002
I Spy, Columbia, 2002
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (animated), Walt Disney Home Video, 2003
Step into Liquid (documentary), Artisan Entertainment, 2003
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Echo Bridge Entertainment, 2003
Love Don't Cost a Thing (also known as Love Don't Co$t a Thing), Warner Bros., 2003
My Baby's Daddy, Miramax, 2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2004
Johnson Family Vacation, Fox Searchlight, 2004
Fat Albert, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2004
The Honeymooners, Paramount, 2005
Television Composer
Movies
Song "Get Dead," The Midnight Hour, ABC, 1985
A Deadly Silence, Lifetime, 1989
A Killing in a Small Town (also known as Evidence of Love),CBS, 1990
How to Murder a Millionaire, CBS, 1990
Sweet 15, PBS, 1990
Wedlock (also known as Deadlock), HBO, 1991
Sins of the Mother, CBS, 1991
Barbarians at the Gate, HBO, 1993
Blind Justice (also known as Canaan's Way), HBO, 1994
The Christmas Box, CBS, 1995
Theme music, Timepiece, CBS, 1996
The Jesse Ventura Story, NBC, 1999
Specials
Hogg's Heaven, Showtime, 1992
The Simpsons Christmas Special (animated; also known as Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire), Fox, 1998
Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed, 2005
Series
The Simpsons (animated), Fox, 1989
Hull High, 1990
Composed theme music for the series Muppets Tonight!, ABC; also composer for the series Tracey Takes On ... , HBO, and The Tracey Ullman Show, Fox.
Episodic
Battlestar Galactica, Sci-Fi Channel, 2004
Other
Sisters (pilot), CBS, 1990
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries), Sci-Fi Channel, 2003

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Musicians, Volume 39, Gale, 2003

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