| Harry Gregson-Williams | |
| Background: | non_performing_personnel |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1961 |
| Origin: | Sussex, England |
| Years Active: | 1990–present |
| Label: | Wavecrest |
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961)[1] is a British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the Metal Gear series, Spy Game, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, and Prince Caspian, Déjà Vu, , The Martian, , Antz, The Tigger Movie, Chicken Run and its sequel, the Shrek franchise, , Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, Early Man, Catch-22, and Gladiator II. He is also the older brother of fellow composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.
Gregson-Williams worked with several film directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Joel Schumacher, Antoine Fuqua, Niki Caro, Nick Park, and Dan Ireland.
Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school and later attended Stowe School, an independent boarding school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.[2]
He learned to play the piano as a child on a Broadwood piano which his father had bought with the winnings from a hundred-to-one bet during the Grand National.[3]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Revenge | Rastar | Additional music Director's cut | |
| 1991 | Cold Heaven | Music associate | ||
| 1994 | White Angel | Living Spirit Pictures | ||
| Broken Heart | Matt McConaghy | Short film | ||
| 1995 | Hotel Paradise | Short film | ||
| Three Miles Up | Lesley Manning | TV movie | ||
| Full Body Massage | TV movie | |||
| 1996 | The Whole Wide World | Co-composed with Hans Zimmer | ||
| Witness Against Hitler | Betsan Morris Evans | TV movie | ||
| The Rock | Music producer with Hans Zimmer Score composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith | |||
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Det Danske Filminstitut Bavaria Film Constantin Film Fox Searchlight Pictures (US) | Co-composed with Hans Zimmer | |
| Deceiver | ||||
| The Borrowers | ||||
| 1998 | The Replacement Killers | |||
| Antz | Co-composed with John Powell First score for an animated film | |||
| The Prince of Egypt | As conductor Co-composed with Hans Zimmer for the song number "All I Ever Wanted" | |||
| Enemy of the State | Co-composed with Trevor Rabin | |||
| 1999 | Swing Vote | TV movie | ||
| The Match | ||||
| Light It Up | ||||
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? |
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Tigger Movie | |||
| The Magic of Marciano | Outrider Pictures | |||
| Chicken Run | Aardman Animations DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Pictures (International) Pathé (Europe) | Co-composed with John Powell | ||
| King of the Jungle | Urbanworld Films | |||
| 2001 | Spy Kids | Co-composed with John Debney, Danny Elfman, Los Lobos, Robert Rodriguez, Heitor Pereira, and Gavin Greenaway | ||
| Shrek | Co-composed with John Powell | |||
| The Hire | Segment: "Powder Keg" | |||
| Spy Game | ||||
| 2002 | Passionada | |||
| Phone Booth | ||||
| The Hire | Segment: "Beat the Devil" | |||
| 2003 | Tim Johnson Patrick Gilmore | |||
| Veronica Guerin | ||||
| The Rundown | Strike Entertainment WWE Films Universal Pictures (North America and Japan) Columbia Pictures (International) | |||
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Co-composed with Lisa Gerrard | ||
| Shrek 2 | ||||
| Return to Sender | ||||
| Replaced Marc Shaiman | ||||
| Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | ||||
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | As composer and conductor Replaced Hans Zimmer | ||
| Domino | ||||
| 2006 | The Uninvited | Louise Runge | Short film | |
| Seraphim Falls | ||||
| Flushed Away | ||||
| Déjà Vu | ||||
| 2007 | The Number 23 | |||
| Shrek the Third | ||||
| Gone Baby Gone | ||||
| Slipstream | Music producer Score composed by Anthony Hopkins | |||
| 2008 | Em | SnagFilms Vanguard Cinema | ||
| The Forbidden Kingdom | Score producer Score composed by David Buckley | |||
| Also voiced Patterwig the Squirrel | ||||
| Jolene | Also music producer | |||
| 2009 | As composer and conductor Additional music by Hybrid and Halli Cauthery | |||
| The Taking of Pelham 123 | Additional music by Hybrid |
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Twelve | ||||
| Shrek Forever After | |||||
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Additional music by Halli Cauthery and David Buckley As composer and conductor | ||||
| The Town | Co-composed with David Buckley | ||||
| Unstoppable | Additional music by Justin Caine Burnett | ||||
| 2011 | Life in a Day | ||||
| Cowboys & Aliens | Platinum Studios Fairview Entertainment Imagine Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures Universal Pictures (North America) Paramount Pictures (International) | Additional music by Halli Cauthery Hybrid provided sound design textures[4] | |||
| Arthur Christmas | Also music producer Replaced Michael Giacchino and Adam Cohen | ||||
| 2012 | Prometheus | Two tracks ("Life" and "We Were Right") Main score by Marc Streitenfeld | |||
| I Am Bad | David Rackoff | OneZero Productions | |||
| Total Recall | Additional music by Hybrid As composer and music producer Orchestra conducted by Gavin Greenaway | ||||
| 2013 | The East | Themes Main score by Halli Cauthery | |||
| Mr. Pip | Olympus Pictures | ||||
| 2014 | Hate from a Distance | Privarte Pictures | Co-composed with Tom Howe | ||
| The Equalizer | Additional music by Hybrid | ||||
| 2015 | Blackhat | Co-composed with Atticus Ross, Ryan Amon, and Leo Ross | |||
| Monkey Kingdom | |||||
| The Martian | As composer and conductor | ||||
| Miss You Already | Lionsgate (US) Entertainment One (UK) | ||||
| 2016 | Confirmation | TV movie Additional music by Stephanie Economou | |||
| Live by Night | Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor | ||||
| 2017 | The Zookeeper's Wife | Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor | |||
| Breath | Additional music by Stephanie Economou | ||||
| Two tracks ("Life" and "We Were Right") Main score by Jed Kurzel | |||||
| 2018 | Early Man | Co-composed with Tom Howe Additional music by Paul Mounsey Orchestra conducted with Gavin Greenaway | |||
| The Equalizer 2 | Additional music by Stephanie Economou | ||||
| The Meg | Additional music by Stephanie Economou As composer and conductor | ||||
| 2019 | Penguins | Alastair Fothergill Jeff Wilson |
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mulan | Themes by Jerry Goldsmith Additional music by Stephanie Economou and Tom Howe | |||
| 2021 | Infinite | ||||
| The Last Duel | |||||
| House of Gucci | |||||
| Al Kameen | AGC Studios Image Nation Abu Dhabi | ||||
| 2022 | Return to Space | Co-composed with Mychael Danna | |||
| Polar Bear | Alastair Fothergill Jeff Wilson | ||||
| 2023 | |||||
| Retribution | |||||
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Ridley Scott |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | G.B.H. | 2 episodes music coordinator |
| 1992 | Champion Children | |
| 1999 | The Hunger | Episode: "Sanctuary" |
| 2002 | ||
| 2004 | Father of the Pride | 3 episodes |
| 2007–2008 | The Riches | |
| 2007 | Shrek the Halls | TV special |
| 2017–2018 | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | |
| 2019 | Whiskey Cavalier | Composed with Tom Howe |
| 2019 | Catch-22 | Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| 2020 | Manhunt | Composed season 2 with Stephanie Economou |
| 2020 | Amazing Stories | Episode: "Signs of Life" |
| 2022–2023 | The Gilded Age | Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams [5] |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | With Norihiko Hibino | |
| 2004 | With Norihiko Hibino | |
| 2007 | Main theme only and music producer With Stephen Barton | |
| 2008 | With Nobuko Toda, Shuichi Kobori and Kazuma Jinnouchi | |
| 2014 | With Ludvig Forssell | |
| 2014 | Main title and themes only With audiomachine (Paul Dinletir and Kevin Rix) | |
| 2015 | Music producer Score composed by Ludvig Forsell, Justin Burnett and Daniel James | |