# Richard G. Mitchell

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.

## 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)