Biography
Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television, and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A long-time collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes,...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sanctuary
2023
Original Music Composer
From the music of Scottish composer Patrick Doyle, Colombian filmmaker Juanita Onzaga crafts a story that aims to give account of everything that is w...

Day Twelve
2023
Music
One fateful night, an Uber driver is forced to confront a sinister secret when he picks up a mysterious passenger.

Death on the Nile
2022
Original Music Composer
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfec...

Artemis Fowl
2020
Original Music Composer
Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of ...

All Is True
2018
Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stop...

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
Original Music Composer
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in ...

Murder on the Orient Express
2017
Original Music Composer
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

The Emoji Movie
2017
Original Music Composer
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017
as Self
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on t...

A United Kingdom
2016
Original Music Composer
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 ...

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016
Music
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examina...

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016
Music
Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.

Whisky Galore
2016
Original Music Composer
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisk...

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
Original Music Composer
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.

Cinderella
2015
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...

Effie Gray
2014
as Wedding Minister
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014
Original Music Composer
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
Original Music Composer
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Sha...

Brave
2012
as Martin (voice)
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter a...

Brave
2012
Original Music Composer
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter a...

Sir Billi
2012
as The Admiral (voice)
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to...

Sir Billi
2012
Original Music Composer
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primat...

Thor
2011
Original Music Composer
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Eart...

The Straight Line
2011
Music
Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last pr...

Main Street
2010
Original Music Composer
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective ...

Igor
2008
Original Music Composer
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science communi...

Nim's Island
2008
Original Music Composer
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Sleuth
2007
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

The Last Legion
2007
Original Music Composer
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Have Mercy on Us All
2007
Original Music Composer
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is fou...

Eragon
2006
Original Music Composer
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the...

As You Like It
2006
as Amiens
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out ag...

As You Like It
2006
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out ag...

Jekyll + Hyde
2006
Original Music Composer
Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Original Music Composer
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Nanny McPhee
2005
Original Music Composer
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and h...

Wah-Wah
2005
Original Music Composer
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...

Man to Man
2005
Original Music Composer
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

Battle of the Brave
2004
Original Music Composer
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

The Galíndez File
2003
Original Music Composer
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working ...

Secondhand Lions
2003
Original Music Composer
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the b...

Calendar Girls
2003
Original Music Composer
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Killing Me Softly
2002
Original Music Composer
A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

Gosford Park
2001
Original Music Composer
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
Original Music Composer
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...

Blow Dry
2001
Original Music Composer
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lov...

Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Original Music Composer
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...

East/West
1999
Original Music Composer
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician a...

Quest for Camelot
1998
Original Music Composer
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants t...

Great Expectations
1998
Original Music Composer
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and t...

Witches
1998
as Pastor
Princess was born into witchcraft, initiated at a very tender age. When she falls in love with Desmond, she ignores the instruction of the witch counc...

Donnie Brasco
1997
Original Music Composer
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Hamlet
1996
Original Music Composer
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
Original Music Composer
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th...

Sense and Sensibility
1995
Original Music Composer
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Scotsman
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...

A Little Princess
1995
Original Music Composer
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended...

A French Woman
1995
Original Music Composer
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a PO...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Original Music Composer
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead ...

Exit to Eden
1994
Original Music Composer
Photographer Elliot Slater has inadvertently snapped the only existing photos of elusive jewel thief Omar. When Elliot leaves for a private vacation o...

Carlito's Way
1993
Original Music Composer
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New Yor...

Needful Things
1993
Original Music Composer
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.

Jealousy
1993
as Singer at Piano
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair ...

Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Balthazar
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to...

Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Original Music Composer
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to...

Into the West
1992
Original Music Composer
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Indochine
1992
Original Music Composer
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam...

Dead Again
1991
Original Music Composer
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is so...

Shipwrecked
1990
Original Music Composer
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Look Back in Anger
1989
Original Music Composer
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter...

Henry V
1989
as Court
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Henry V
1989
Original Music Composer
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Original Music Composer
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disgui...

Down Where the Buffalo Go
1988
as Pat
Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to ...

Chariots of Fire
1981
as Jimmie
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...

Jackie McCafferty's Romance
1978
as Archie
A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.