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Richard G Mitchell is an English composer of music primarily for movies and television.

Mitchell was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School and later St Martins School of Art in the late 1970s where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Was awarded an Ivor Novello Award and is best known for scoring the movies: To Kill a King, Grand Theft Parsons, A Good Woman and the 1996 BBC period TV series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Original Scores

Mitchell is an English composer best known for his writing and arranging period movie scores for choir and orchestra, though his compositions span a very wide range of styles varying from classical to more contemporary electronic genres such as drum and bass and trip hop. He also has a reputation for working in a diverse range of world music styles, such as the Tibetan score for Nick Gray's Escape from Tibet in contrast to a country and western pedal steel guitar-based score for Grand Theft Parsons, successful with film music critics at the 2004 Sundance Festival.

His original score for To Kill a King in 2004 continued his successful relationship with director Mike Barker, for whom he scored A Good Woman in 2005, and later the Sea Wolf in 2008, followed by Moby Dick.

His score for the film Trial by Fire won an Ivor Novello Award in 2000 and the BBC period drama The Tenant of Wildfell Hall won Best Score at the Royal Television Society Awards in 1998.

In 2005, Mitchell composed the music for The Call of the Toad, written by Günter Grass and directed by Robert Gliński. The score was recorded with the Polish Symphony Orchestra, and nominated for a Polish Academy Award.^[1]

Other commissions

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Credits

Filmography

2024

Oddity

2020

Caveat

2011

Moby Dick

2006

Almost Heaven

2005

The Call of the Toad
A Good Woman

2004

Tempesta

2003

Grand Theft Parsons

2002

To Kill a King

2000

Children of the Holocaust

1998

La Coupe de la Gloire (Official World Cup Movie)

1997

Basil

1992

The Bridge

1986

Born American

1983

Rush Hour

1980

Beastly Treatment

Original Soundtrack Albums

2012

Moby Dick

2009

Sea Wolf

2006

A Good Woman

2003

To Kill a King
Grand Theft Parsons

2001

The Glass

1998

Invasion: Earth

1996

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1992

The Bridge

Television Work

2009

Sea Wolf

2006

Perfect Day: The Millennium

2005

How to Have a Good Death
Class of '76
The Stepfather

2002

Helen West

2001

The Glass
True Originals ("Latika Rana")

2000

Brits Abroad
Where There's Smoke

1999

Trial by Fire
Trauma Team
QED

1998

Get Real
Invasion: Earth

1997

Coast to Coast
Escape From Tibet
Bridget Jones Diary
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1996

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (3 episodes)
Euro 96 Opening Ceremony

1995

Harry
SuperMax (First Tuesday)
Stolen Brides (Network First)
Scotland Yard

1994

Brat Pack

1990

Cluedo
MasterChef

1989

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

1988

Across the Lake
Seoul Olympic Theme

1987

Worlds Beyond
Truckers

1986

In The Footsteps Of Scott

Awards

Won Ivor Novello Award for "Trial By Fire" (2000)
Nominated Polish Academy Award for "The Call of the Toad" (2005)
Nominated Royal Television Society Award for "The Glass" (2001)
Won Royal Television Society Award for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Won The New York Film and TV Festival best original score for "Rush Hour" (1985)