Murray Gold

Murray Gold is a film and television composer with a vast array of credits including the BBC’s Doctor Who, Sally Wainwright’s Gentleman Jack for BBC One and HBO, Amazon’s Dead Ringers starring Rachel Weisz, Channel 4 period drama The Devil’s Whore, the BBC series The Musketeers, Brian and Maggie starring Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter, and the murder mystery series Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, based on the Anthony Horowitz novels.

Murray has worked extensively with writer/director Russell T Davies on projects such as It’s a Sin, A Very English Scandal starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, Years and Years, Casanova starring David Tennant, The Second Coming, Cucumber and Queer as Folk, series 1 and 2.

Further credits include the feature films Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz, Mischief Night, directed by Penny Woolcock, Alien Autopsy and Veronika Decides to Die, as well as the ITV series Holding, BBC Natural History series Life Story, crime drama Scott & Bailey and Murray wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 hit series Shameless.

Murray has been nominated for a BAFTA six times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006), Doctor Who (2008) and A Very English Scandal (2019). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the Mozart Prize of the 7th Art by a French jury at Aubagne. He has also been nominated seven times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television, winning twice.

Between 2005 and 2018 Murray composed the score for the BBC’s immensely popular Doctor Who for 10 series and he later returned to scoring the show in 2023. Murray created a new arrangement of the show’s theme (originally composed by Ron Grainer) and arranged and orchestrated three special live concerts for the music from Doctor Who.

Murray has also written radio plays including Electricity for which he won the Imison Award for best new play. His other plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, Resolution and Kafka: The Musical, starring David Tennant which won the 2013 Tinniswood Award for Best Original Radio Drama.