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name: "Adrian Johnston"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1961"
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average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
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# Adrian Johnston

Composer. Born 1 January 1961 in Cumbria, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1961, Cumbria, England, UK
- **Active:** 2009–2019
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Johnston_(musician), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373231, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426514/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72854

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Giri/Haji*](https://film.one/tv/giri-haji.md) (84)

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## Biography

Adrian Johnston is a British composer for film and television. Born in 1961, he began his career writing and performing scores for restored silent films before composing for theatre productions at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

His first feature film score was for *Jude* (1996). He has since composed for more than thirty films, including *Becoming Jane* (2007), *Brideshead Revisited* (2008), *Kinky Boots* (2005) and *The Strangers: Prey at Night* (2018), as well as television series such as *Giri/Haji* (2019), *Red Riding* (2009) and the *Strike* adaptations (2017–).

Johnston won a Primetime Emmy for the score of *Shackleton* (2002) and a BAFTA for *Capturing Mary* (2007). He has received multiple further BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations and awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, fabermusic.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Giri/Haji* (2019), Fi1m 84, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/giri-haji.md)
- *Red Riding* (2009), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)

## Complete filmography (87)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Primate* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *A Very Royal Scandal* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *No Return* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Four Lives* (2022), series, Original Music Composer
- *Responsible Child* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Giri/Haji* (2019), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/giri-haji.md)
- *Summer of Rockets* (2019), series, Music
- *Eden* (2019), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Child in Time* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *The Strangers: Prey at Night* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Close to the Enemy* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *I Am Not a Serial Killer* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Rush Hour* (2016), series, as Finley
- *News from Planet Mars* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Churchill's Secret* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Marvellous* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Common* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Scintilla* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Klondike* (2014), series, Music
- *The 7.39* (2014), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Politician's Husband* (2013), series, Music
- *Dancing on the Edge* (2013), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Scapegoat* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *White Heat* (2012), series, Original Music Composer
- *Astonish Me* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Exile* (2011), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Sinking of the Laconia* (2011), series, Music
- *The Road to Coronation Street* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *On Expenses* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Glorious 39* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Red Riding* (2009), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)
- *Above Suspicion* (2009), series, Original Music Composer
- *Dustbin Baby* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Brideshead Revisited* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Capturing Mary* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *My Boy Jack* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *A Real Summer* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Sparkle* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Meadowlands* (2007), series, Music
- *Becoming Jane* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *The Trial of Tony Blair* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Lassie* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Isolation* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Gideon's Daughter* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Kinky Boots* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Friends & Crocodiles* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Faith* (2005), Music
- *The Mighty Celt* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Piccadilly Jim* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *If Only* (2004), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *The Mayor of Casterbridge* (2003), Music
- *Byron* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Canterbury Tales* (2003), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Lost Prince* (2003), series, Original Music Composer
- *Byron* (2003), series, Original Music Composer
- *Tipping the Velvet* (2002), series, Original Music Composer
- *White Teeth* (2002), series, Original Music Composer
- *Lawless Heart* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Crime and Punishment* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Crime and Punishment* (2002), series, Music
- *Sunday* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Shackleton* (2002), series, Original Music Composer
- *Me Without You* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *About Adam* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Never Never* (2000), series, Original Music Composer
- *The House of Mirth* (2000), Music Director
- *Some Voices* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Darkest Light* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Suicide Club* (2000), Music
- *The Turn of the Screw* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *All the King's Men* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *With or Without You* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Debt Collector* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Yellow* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Divorcing Jack* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Tribe* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Our Mutual Friend* (1998), series, Original Music Composer
- *I Want You* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Food of Love* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Welcome to Sarajevo* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Touching Evil* (1997), series, Original Music Composer
- *Broken Glass* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Jude* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Death of a Salesman* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Enter Achilles* (1996), Original Music Composer

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