---
name: "Christopher Gunning"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-gunning"
fi1m_id: "christopher-gunning"
imdb_id: "nm0006116"
tmdb_id: 16929
wikidata_id: "Q532363"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "5 August 1944"
died: "25 March 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:06:11.056205+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."
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# Christopher Gunning

## Identity

Christopher Gunning

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-gunning
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-gunning
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006116
- **TMDB ID:** 16929
- **Wikidata ID:** Q532363
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gunning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532363, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16929

Composer. Born 5 August 1944 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK. Died 25 March 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 5 August 1944, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- **Died:** 25 March 2023
- **Active:** 1971–2007
- **Also known as:** Chris Gunning
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 58 (1), 2000s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gunning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532363, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16929

## Biography

Christopher Gunning (also credited as Chris Gunning) was an English composer of music for film, television and the concert hall. He was born on 5 August 1944 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett.

His film and television scores include *La Vie en Rose* (2007), *Grace of Monaco* (2014), *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989–2004), *Under Suspicion* (1991), *Firelight* (1997) and *The Day of the Triffids* (1981). He won four BAFTA awards, for *La Vie en Rose*, *Agatha Christie's Poirot*, *Middlemarch* and *Porterhouse Blue*, and three Ivor Novello Awards. Gunning also composed thirteen symphonies between 2001 and 2020. He died on 25 March 2023.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, mfiles.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *La Vie en Rose* (2007), Fi1m 66, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/la-vie-en-rose.md)
- *Nicholas and Alexandra* (1971), Fi1m 58, Additional Music — [page](https://film.one/film/nicholas-and-alexandra.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Grace of Monaco* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *La Vie en Rose* (2007), as Orchestra conductor · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/la-vie-en-rose.md)
- *Lighthouse Hill* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Cater Street Hangman* (1998), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Firelight* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *The Life and Crimes of William Palmer* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Rebecca* (1997), series, Original Music Composer
- *Cold Lazarus* (1996), series, Original Music Composer
- *Karaoke* (1996), series, Music
- *The Affair* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Wings Over the Serengeti* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Glass Virgin* (1995), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Big Battalions* (1992), series, Music
- *Under Suspicion* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *When the Whales Came* (1989), Music
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, Music
- *Knights of God* (1987), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Alamut Ambush* (1986), Music
- *The Brack Report* (1982), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Day of the Triffids* (1981), series, Original Music Composer
- *Rise and Fall of Idi Amin* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Running Blind* (1979), Music
- *Rogue Male* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones* (1976), Conductor, Songs
- *In Celebration* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Man About the House* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Ooh...You Are Awful* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Nicholas and Alexandra* (1971), Additional Music — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/nicholas-and-alexandra.md)
- *Hands of the Ripper* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Goodbye Gemini* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Memorial*, Music

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