Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle

1953-04-06 Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland 77 Credits

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

Filter by:

Complete Filmography

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

2023

Original Music Composer

1.0

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

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

Death on the Nile

2022

Original Music Composer

6.4

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

Artemis Fowl

2020

Original Music Composer

5.5

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

All Is True

2018

Orchestrator, Conductor, Original Music Composer

6.0

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

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

2018

Original Music Composer

7.9

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

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

Original Music Composer

6.7

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

The Emoji Movie

The Emoji Movie

2017

Original Music Composer

5.4

Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

Score: A Film Music Documentary

Score: A Film Music Documentary

2017

as Self

7.1
Acting

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

A United Kingdom

2016

Original Music Composer

6.7

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

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

2016

Music

3.5

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

Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet

2016

Music

8.0

Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.

Whisky Galore

Whisky Galore

2016

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

2015

Original Music Composer

7.7

A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.

Cinderella

Cinderella

2015

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

6.8

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

Effie Gray

2014

as Wedding Minister

5.9
Acting

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

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

2014

Original Music Composer

6.1

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

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

2013

Original Music Composer

7.0

Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Sha...

Brave

Brave

2012

as Martin (voice)

7.0
Acting

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

Brave

2012

Original Music Composer

7.0

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

Sir Billi

2012

as The Admiral (voice)

3.2
Acting

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

Sir Billi

2012

Original Music Composer

3.2

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

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

7.3

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

Thor

2011

Original Music Composer

6.8

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

The Straight Line

2011

Music

6.2

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

Main Street

2010

Original Music Composer

4.5

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

Igor

2008

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

Nim's Island

2008

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

Sleuth

Sleuth

2007

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

6.3

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

The Last Legion

The Last Legion

2007

Original Music Composer

5.6

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

Have Mercy on Us All

2007

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

Eragon

2006

Original Music Composer

5.1

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

As You Like It

2006

as Amiens

5.7
Acting

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

As You Like It

2006

Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

5.7

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

Jekyll + Hyde

2006

Original Music Composer

4.7

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

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

Original Music Composer

7.8

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

Nanny McPhee

2005

Original Music Composer

6.7

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

Wah-Wah

2005

Original Music Composer

6.0

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

Man to Man

2005

Original Music Composer

6.2

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

Battle of the Brave

2004

Original Music Composer

6.1

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

The Galíndez File

2003

Original Music Composer

4.0

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

Secondhand Lions

2003

Original Music Composer

7.2

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

Calendar Girls

2003

Original Music Composer

6.5

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly

2002

Original Music Composer

5.5

A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

Gosford Park

Gosford Park

2001

Original Music Composer

6.8

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

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001

Original Music Composer

6.7

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

Blow Dry

2001

Original Music Composer

5.9

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

Love's Labour's Lost

2000

Original Music Composer

5.6

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

East/West

1999

Original Music Composer

6.5

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

Quest for Camelot

1998

Original Music Composer

6.8

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

Great Expectations

1998

Original Music Composer

6.6

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

Witches

1998

as Pastor

10.0
Acting

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

Donnie Brasco

1997

Original Music Composer

7.5

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Hamlet

Hamlet

1996

Original Music Composer

7.3

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

Mrs. Winterbourne

1996

Original Music Composer

7.2

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

Sense and Sensibility

1995

Original Music Composer

7.4

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

In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Scotsman

7.1
Acting

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

A Little Princess

1995

Original Music Composer

7.6

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

A French Woman

1995

Original Music Composer

5.5

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

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

Original Music Composer

6.4

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

Exit to Eden

1994

Original Music Composer

4.1

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

Carlito's Way

1993

Original Music Composer

7.8

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

Needful Things

1993

Original Music Composer

6.2

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

Jealousy

1993

as Singer at Piano

Acting

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

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

as Balthazar

6.9
Acting

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

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

Original Music Composer

6.9

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

Into the West

1992

Original Music Composer

6.4

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

Indochine

1992

Original Music Composer

7.0

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

Dead Again

1991

Original Music Composer

6.4

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

Shipwrecked

1990

Original Music Composer

6.6

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

Look Back in Anger

1989

Original Music Composer

9.0

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

Henry V

1989

as Court

7.1
Acting

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

Henry V

1989

Original Music Composer

7.1

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

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

1988

Original Music Composer

6.9

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

Down Where the Buffalo Go

1988

as Pat

Acting

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

Chariots of Fire

1981

as Jimmie

6.8
Acting

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

Jackie McCafferty's Romance

1978

as Archie

Acting

A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.