Biography
Thomas Morgan Robertson is an English musician, producer, entrepreneur and educator. Born on October 14, 1958, in London, England, Dolby is a self-taught musician, and his early musical experiences were with choral singing, guitar and then piano. His adopted last name of Dolby was a reference to the audio noise-reduction process invented by Dolby Laboratories, inspired by his fascination with technology and taken on to differentiate him from popular musician Tom Robinson. In 1979, Dolby formed t...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Everything In-Between: The Story of Ellipse
2010
Musician
Imogen Heap decamps to Maui, Hawaii in spring 2007 to start writing her third solo album. With only a video camera for company, she begins documenting...
The Gate to the Mind's Eye
1994
Original Music Composer
'Alloy' is faced with a vision of the year: 2075, doom. There is only one way to reverse the madness: collapse the universe into itself and begin agai...
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992
Songs
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destr...
Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
1990
as Self - Synthesizer, vocals
A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefi...
Rockula
1990
as Stanley
Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona be murdered by ...
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988
as Self (archive)
An irreverent survey of British Music.
Gothic
1987
Original Music Composer
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a...
Howard the Duck
1986
as Bartender in Rock Club
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...
Howard the Duck
1986
Songs
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...
Fever Pitch
1985
Original Music Composer
An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.
Duck Rock
1985
Musician
A visual compilation of songs from Malcolm McLaren's 1983 album "Duck Rock", including the songs "Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch", mixed with intervi...
Thomas Dolby - Live Wireless
1983
as Himself - vocals, synthesizer
Thomas Dolby and his band plus special guests perform a live set at the Riverside Theatre Studios, London, in 1983.
Thomas Dolby - Live Wireless
1983
Director, Writer
Thomas Dolby and his band plus special guests perform a live set at the Riverside Theatre Studios, London, in 1983.
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
as Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem con...
Summer School
1983
Music
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...