---
name: "Adrian Utley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adrian-utley"
fi1m_id: "adrian-utley"
imdb_id: "nm0882540"
tmdb_id: 78442
wikidata_id: "Q2049773"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "27 April 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T03:21:28.291798+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adrian Utley

## Identity

Adrian Utley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adrian-utley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adrian-utley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0882540
- **TMDB ID:** 78442
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2049773
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Utley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2049773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78442

Composer. Born 27 April 1957 in Northampton.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 27 April 1957, Northampton
- **Also known as:** Portishead
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Utley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2049773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78442

## Biography

Adrian Utley is an English musician, composer and record producer, best known as a member of the band Portishead. Born in Northampton, he moved to Bristol in the mid-1980s and performed as a jazz guitarist before joining Portishead in 1990. The group’s debut album *Dummy* was released in 1994, followed by *Portishead* in 1997 and *Third* in 2008.

Utley has composed for film and television, including *Signs & Wonders* (2000), *Accelerator* (2000) and *Flytopia* (2012). He has also worked as a producer and session musician with artists including Goldfrapp, Beth Gibbons and Sparklehorse, and appeared as an actor in shorts such as *To Kill a Dead Man* (1994).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Signs & Wonders* (2001), Fi1m 54, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/signs-and-wonders.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Broken English* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Death Songbook* (2021), Actor
- *Arcadia* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Portishead - Live at Rock en Seine Festival 2014* (2014), Actor
- *Signs & Wonders* (2001), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/signs-and-wonders.md)
- *The Sound of Claudia Schiffer* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Sounds of the West - Straight Outa Bristol* (1996), Actor
- *To Kill a Dead Man* (1994), Writer
- *Jeff Beck - Big Town Playboys*, as rhythm guitar

## Gallery

- ![Portishead. Primavera Sound 2008, Barcelona.](https://film.one/media/person/3932655/gallery-45d80f2e8ede.jpg) Portishead. Primavera Sound 2008, Barcelona. — livepict.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Portishead_%40_Primavera_Sound_4.jpg/1280px-Portishead_%40_Primavera_Sound_4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adrian Utley ; concierto de Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (escenario Rockdelux)](https://film.one/media/person/3932655/gallery-7b33405736a5.jpg) Adrian Utley ; concierto de Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (escenario Rockdelux) — Alterna2 (http://www.alterna2.com), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Adrian_Utley_-_Portishead_-_2.jpg/1280px-Adrian_Utley_-_Portishead_-_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (Auditori)](https://film.one/media/person/3932655/gallery-56d0e0137780.jpg) Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (Auditori) — Alterna2 http://www.alterna2.com, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Portishead_en_el_Primavera_Sound_2008_%28Auditori%29_%282541568774%29.jpg/1280px-Portishead_en_el_Primavera_Sound_2008_%28Auditori%29_%282541568774%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adrian Utley](https://film.one/media/person/3932655/gallery-c8e6572718e1.jpg) Adrian Utley — Alterna2 (https://www.alterna2.com), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Adrian_Utley_-_Portishead.jpg/1280px-Adrian_Utley_-_Portishead.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (Auditori)](https://film.one/media/person/3932655/gallery-408ebd8653c7.jpg) Portishead en el Primavera Sound 2008 (Auditori) — Alterna2 http://www.alterna2.com, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Portishead_en_el_Primavera_Sound_2008_%28Auditori%29_%282540752049%29.jpg/1280px-Portishead_en_el_Primavera_Sound_2008_%28Auditori%29_%282540752049%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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