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Dan Jones
Composer, Additional Credits
Dan Jones is a British composer and sound designer working in film and theatre. He read music at the University of Oxford, studied contemporary music theatre at the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied electro-acoustic composition and programming at the Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome. Having explored various means of generating music algorithmically, he is the author of one of the earliest pieces of software for generating fractal or self-similar music. He has won BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards. He composed the score for the Peabody Award-winning documentary film Bobi Wine: The People's President
His scores for feature films include Shadow of the Vampire (starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe), In Transit (also starring John Malkovich), Jericho Mansions (starring James Caan) and Menno Meyjes' Max (starring John Cusack), for which he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score 2004. He also scored Meyjes' follow up film Manolete (starring Adrien Brody and Penélope Cruz).
He has written for all the major British television broadcasters and his work includes Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals, the BBC series Strange, Pawel Pawlikowski's drama "Twockers", Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 horror series "Dead Set" and Francesca Joseph's "Tomorrow La Scala", Channel 4's three-part documentary " Visions of Heaven and Hell" shown in 1994. He collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, John Berger and Paul Carlin on the BBC Arena (television) special "The Spectre of Hope". He recently composed the music for the BAFTA Best Drama Serial Any Human Heart for Channel 4 which also won both BAFTA and Ivor Novello Best Television Score Awards. More recently, he composed the music for ITV's controversial Fred West drama, 'Appropriate Adult'.
His scores for feature films include Shadow of the Vampire (starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe), In Transit (also starring John Malkovich), Jericho Mansions (starring James Caan) and Menno Meyjes' Max (starring John Cusack), for which he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score 2004. He also scored Meyjes' follow up film Manolete (starring Adrien Brody and Penélope Cruz).
He has written for all the major British television broadcasters and his work includes Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals, the BBC series Strange, Pawel Pawlikowski's drama "Twockers", Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 horror series "Dead Set" and Francesca Joseph's "Tomorrow La Scala", Channel 4's three-part documentary " Visions of Heaven and Hell" shown in 1994. He collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, John Berger and Paul Carlin on the BBC Arena (television) special "The Spectre of Hope". He recently composed the music for the BAFTA Best Drama Serial Any Human Heart for Channel 4 which also won both BAFTA and Ivor Novello Best Television Score Awards. More recently, he composed the music for ITV's controversial Fred West drama, 'Appropriate Adult'.
Dan Jones Filmography
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Man In An Orange Shirt (TV Series) |
| 2017 | SS-GB (TV Series) |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown (TV Series) |
| 2010 | Any Human Heart (TV Series) |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Dead Set (TV Series) |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | The Life of Mammals (TV Series) |
| 2025 | Code of Silence (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2022 | Bobi Wine: The People's President · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | The Outlaws (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2021 | Close To Me (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | Flesh and Blood (2020) (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | World on Fire (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2018 | Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist · as Composer |
| 2017 | On Chesil Beach · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | The Miniaturist · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | The Miniaturist (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | The Replacement (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Lady Macbeth · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Dark Heart (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2015 | My Scientology Movie · as Composer |
| 2015 | Silent Fear · as Composer |
| 2014 | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | The Great Fire (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | National Theatre Live: Antigone · as Sound Designer |
| 2012 | The Fear (UK) (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | The Secret Of Crickley Hall (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | In the Dark Half · as Composer |
| 2012 | Kursk · as Composer |
| 2011 | Appropriate Adult (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2009 | Turn It Loose · as Composer |
| 2008 | A Matador's Mistress · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Criminal Justice (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | The Tonto Woman · as Composer |
| 2007 | Learners · as Composer |
| 2007 | Four Last Songs · as Original Music Composer |
| 2005 | Earthling · as Composer |
| 2004 | Murder by Numbers · as Original Music Composer |
| 2003 | Jericho Mansions · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Tomorrow La Scala! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Max · as Original Music Composer |
| 2002 | Strange (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2001 | The Spectre of Hope · as Composer |
| 2001 | Trance · as Composer |
| 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire · as Original Music Composer |
| 1999 | The Weekend · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | Cutting Edge (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Composer |